J. Phil Thien's Projects

thanks ill try send a pic.....ive got a feeling your right !!!!.....

 ive made a simple garbage bin cyclone and its so simple and works  so good i have not cleaned the filter on my shop vac for about a month.... i used to do it weekly......im so conviced im now gonna make one for my big squirrel cage extractor.....i got lots of questions... but heres where ill start....the  extractor has an inlet of 230mm!!!!....and the out is about the same.....if i go down to the only available size of plumbing fittings to 150mm ill seriously lose alot of suction????...has anyone got an idea for bigger plumbing fittings or something similar....or should i just down size the inlet to 150mm and be done with it?.....also can u put the cyclone on any side (inlet side or outlet side?).......

i have in the past made sprinkler systems for fibreglass dust extraction....i was thinking two cyclones side by side one with a sprinkler at the point of entry so it drops the fine dust down into a holding pond....they use them in mining to stop huge amounts of dust....i havent thougt it through but u could do something simple that would stop the need for a filter.....too complicated?

hi.....i was wonder if it would be too much effort to make a wet type collector....two cyclones... one wet and one dry...the wet one being the last on the chain to take out the fine dust....just a though.....