my brother and I are embarking on building two top hats for our jet 1100 dust collectors. just a few quick questions before we start the build
1, My dust collector has a 6 inch in with one of the adapters to make it two 4 inch pipes. The outlet is a 5 inch pipe. Is it useful or any good to build the top hat with a 5 inch outlet then use 5 inch pipe to the tools and then downsize to 4 inch for the tool collection. Or is my dust collector not that powerful enough to support a 5 inch pipe. I should not that I will likely have the dust collector on wheels and connect it to the tools with a short piece of flexible pipe. or should I just stay with a 4 inch out on the baffle.
2. I am probably going to use a steel drum for the collector. a 30 gallon steel barrel is 20 inch in diameter and the 55 gallon is 24 inch in diameter. Is there any reqiurement for how wide the baffle should be . I would prefer to go with the smaller barrel but want to confirm that a 20 in diameter top hat will still work well
Thanks in advance. The site is hugely helpful.
And Phil thanks for all your work on the design. Its really awesome
Regards
KC
1, My dust collector has a 6 inch in with one of the adapters to make it two 4 inch pipes. The outlet is a 5 inch pipe. Is it useful or any good to build the top hat with a 5 inch outlet then use 5 inch pipe to the tools and then downsize to 4 inch for the tool collection. Or is my dust collector not that powerful enough to support a 5 inch pipe. I should not that I will likely have the dust collector on wheels and connect it to the tools with a short piece of flexible pipe. or should I just stay with a 4 inch out on the baffle.
2. I am probably going to use a steel drum for the collector. a 30 gallon steel barrel is 20 inch in diameter and the 55 gallon is 24 inch in diameter. Is there any reqiurement for how wide the baffle should be . I would prefer to go with the smaller barrel but want to confirm that a 20 in diameter top hat will still work well
Thanks in advance. The site is hugely helpful.
And Phil thanks for all your work on the design. Its really awesome
Regards
KC