Dust from a dusty

[woodPixel]

As BobL has said one billion times, a dusty always leaks.

My 2HP generic with a pleated filter has undergone a vigeous anti-leak process involving packing tape to seal every nook and cranny.

Imagine my surprise after a lllllooong 3 days on the table saw to find a fine dust deposit on the motor housing.... How did you get there I thought.... Tracking it with an incense stick.... It was the pipe running from the motor to the main housing!!!

4 tiny cracks in the pipe itself!

The billions and billions of abrasions have finally worn down the inside of the pipes ridge on the outside curve sufficiently enough to make a tiny leak.

Curses!

A bit of clear packing tape to wrap around from top to bottom solved that.... But it shows one needs to be diligent!

[Kuffy]

If I could get a clear shot of my dusty, you would see globs and globs of Selleys All Clear all over every single weld. It stopped the leaks quick smart! Though I can't fix the leak between impellor housing and motor shaft. probably needs some kind of inboard motor marine solution which is a smidge above my harry hack level of knowledge.

[BobL]

As BobL has said one billion times, a dusty always leaks.

My 2HP generic with a pleated filter has undergone a vigeous anti-leak process involving packing tape to seal every nook and cranny.

Imagine my surprise after a lllllooong 3 days on the table saw to find a fine dust deposit on the motor housing.... How did you get there I thought.... Tracking it with an incense stick.... It was the pipe running from the motor to the main housing!!!

4 tiny cracks in the pipe itself!

The billions and billions of abrasions have finally worn down the inside of the pipes ridge on the outside curve sufficiently enough to make a tiny leak.

Curses!

A bit of clear packing tape to wrap around from top to bottom solved that.... But it shows one needs to be diligent!

That's the problem with DCs inside a shed. It doesn't seem to matter how well you seal them up other leaks will eventually develop and by the time you notice it you shed will be fully contaminated.

[woodPixel]

Indeed. Contamination.

I despise dust, heat and noise. As a woodworker, this makes for some severe challenges.

An open shed, in a tall forest, 17° day and night with a light northerly breeze and the sound of the trickling creek bed running by the shed.... when I win the lotto! :D

I'm still going to put the DC into a cupboard with a big area nano filter on the end of the muffler... simply because the heat kills me.

But I was amazed to see those tiny holes caused by erosion in the pipe. By Zeus!