Dust Extraction

[amgsir]

Hello All,

I have just pulled a 1500watt motor out of a vacum cleaner (was in good nick and operated well) that was spare at home. SWMBO does not yet know about this!!!!:D

I also have at home a Triton Dust Bin that I plan to convert to a Cyclone curtosy of examples provided by you all in previous threads.

Planning to build a box to contain the motor and link it to the "Triton Cyclone".

Question - will the motor be powerful enough to make the exercise worthwhile or should I just stick an impeller on the motor and use it for air movement within workshop? Thoughts?

[Gumby]

1500 is about as much as most home vacuums and generally fine for the narrow pipe on a Triton. Why didn't you just leave it in the vacuum and hook it up to the cyclone mod. You will still get some fine dust coming through and if it's a normal house vac, you can just tap that out of the filter at the end of each day. Without it, isn't the dust going to get inside the motor ? :confused: