J. Phil Thien's Projects

Phil and Steve,

Thanks for the info.  I am still amazed at how well this works.  Quite a difference from having to empty the vac every 5 minutes and losing suction almost immediately after cleaning it.  What I wasn't sure of was about the fine dust.  Good to know it's working as expected.

Now to make a larger version for my HF dust collector.  Gonna be nice not havng to remove that bag to clean.  That was always a PITA.

Don

Hi all,

I recently (like yesterday) modified my Dust-Right Vortex by adding the baffle to it and changing the outlet port to the center rather than the opposite edge from the inlet port.  This based on Phil's separator lid design.  It workes extemely well, much better than the way it was configured by Rockler.  I'm attributing this to the baffle mostly.

Anyway, the reason for this post is to point out that I made the cutout in the baffle only 120? instead of 240?.  (I mis-remembered the design specs from your website, Phil.)  Haha, wow, couldn't remember one number between upstairs and one minute later in the garage.  :-[

So, on to the question.  Before I rip things apart and cutout more of the  baffle opening, does anyone think it would collect more of the fine dust if I did that.  I ask because as it sits now not a single chip gets thru, and after collecting 4 inches of dust and chips in the separator, and running the vac for another five minutes just to make sure there isn't any 'scrubbing' going on there is only a very fine coating of dust on the vac filter.  Even with everything working at top efficiency, would that be the best I can expect, or should ALL the dust be trapped by the separator??

Oh, and thanks for the site, Phil.  Donation on the way.