J. Phil Thien's Projects

Thanks for the answer. The air in your original desig revolves because a DC makes it revolve I guess ?


I was suprised to not find any <10 inch separators on your website especialy since the ready build cyclones you find (dust deputy etc), that are used for vacuum cleaners all are even smaller than the 10 inch that I have in mind. Maybe because of the height they have (wich is what I want to avoid) they get the revolving air in those cyclones ?


I guess I will indeed just have to give it a go because I want to avaid the hight of a cyclone and want to build everyting into a "smalish" box.

If it does or does not work out, I will be sure to post the results.

greetings

Hello,

I have done some searching on the forum for small Thien separators but it appears that when people talk about small here they still have very hefty machines in mind :)

Therefore I thought, lets ask the forum if they think what I have in mind is in any way possible.

I am thinking of building a separator that would have a maximum diameter of 10 inch. The idea is to make it with a side inlet (I mean the port where the dust is comming in) and I would prefer to have it 4 to 5 inch high.

The dust colector I would want to hook up to it would be a normal dust collector used for powertools. (wich is what I want to use the separator for) It would have a maximum airflow of 3900l/min. The vacuum cleaner would come with a roughly 1 inch hose so my inlet and outlet would be something close to that size.

I am personaly wondering if this is in any way possible... I can imagine that the "chamber" would be to small and dust would be sucked to the vacuum cleaner... then again, if it works in bigger sizes with heavier machines, why would it not work with a smaller size and a smaller machine... Unfortunatly I just don't have the wisdom to come up with the right answers myself.

So anyone that would be able to shed some light in the darkness, thanks in advance !