J. Phil Thien's Projects

I got the Wynn Filter installed a couple of weeks ago and man what a differance. I hope the following photos will help someone else. All in all it was quick and easy (only a one beer project). I have to say, boy am I glad I screwed the seperator in, as you will see in the following photos and commentary.

The first thing is to take off the old bag, boy was it dusty. the following photo shows all the fines that were on the plate (some of that fell off the bag whileI was removing it) with a 1/4 full bottom bag. If you have a DC 1100 you know that is normaly full.


First took off the seperator.



Next I put the filter on, to check the fit. First thing the little turnbuckles were too long. After a little thought I remembered that I hade a piece of light Alum. angle (1 x 2). I cut it to 1 5/8 leg and filed a notch in the center for the hook on the turnbuckle.


Next I drilled and pop rivited the three brackets on to the filter.





Next I installed the filter with the 3 turnbuckles, using a 1" block to center the filter as I tightened it up.





Then I reinstalled the seperator.



The bag was a little challange and be carefull you don't put you finger through the side trying to get it on (2nd photo),





Next was the test, everything went A OK.
, but the bag is bigger that the base.



So I took my hand and stuffed it back under while the unit was running.





still in place, hasn't moved in a couple of weeks now. The unit works very well, can't give you any hard data, but a very noticeable increase in dust collection (sucking) and virtually no dust coming out the filter (shop is a lot less dusty too), like it was with the cloth bag. Another plus, the other day I needed to cut some 45's so I took the back off of my Jet 10" Con. saw and this is what I saw.







Any of you with this setup will know that there is usually 4 - 5 inchecs of sawdust in all the corners.

I hope this will help some one out.

Paul

Phil,

Looks like I will have to wait until Monday to order the filter kit, they seem to be closed, must be for the holiday.

I will keep you posted on how the filter kit works.

Paul

Hi all,

This is my first post, though I have visited this site many times. I come across this site last winter sometime and filed it away for future use. Well today was the day, I made the seperator, because I wanted to add a Wynn Filter to my DC. My stock bag was way to dusty. It took me a leasurely 3 hours, with breaks, to make it. It was extremely easy.

Here is what I did.
First, I cut the seperator out of a 1/4" tempered hardboard with a jig saw. For the Jet the large diameter was 19 1/2"


Second, I cut some dowels and fitted them to the collar of the Jet. The angle was 65* and the length was 4 9/16 @ 12" diameter. I predrilled starter holes before I sanded the angle.


Third, drilled the collar


Forth, screwed it all together.


Fifth, assembled everything for a test run.


After an hour of running my drum sander and planer this is all that there was in my upper part of the Jet DC. Normally it would of been full with sawdust. Only a VERY FEW FINES as you can see.


Totally amazing, something so simple and easy to make, makes a GREAT BIG DIFFERENCE.

Thanks Phil for your great design, please send me your paypay email so I can make a donation.

Paul