What on earth?! Separator quit separating...

[dbhost]

After months, and months of excellent service, my Thien trash can separator quit, well, separating today.... I had to stop and clear blockage in the DC plumbing 2 or three times, and I think the sudden, and repetative stop, then hit of air and debris might have been the cause of the blow by. Anyone else experienced this? I can't WAIT to reorganize my shop. I am pretty sure this is a plumbing caused issue, not a Thien separator problem...

[phil (admin)]

Plugs that reach the separator aren't separated very thoroughly.  Most of the plug short circuits the separator.

[dbhost]

That explains that...

Apparently I REALLY need to get a floor sweep and suck this into the DC instead of the shop vac side of things...

Getting rid of those bends, and most particularly the rises in the line will go a LONG way to fixing this...