Thread: Dust Collection - Machinery Connections

Originally Posted by vsquizz

Well for all my limited Talent I may well have been wishing you a case of Saigon Rose for Chrissy:eek: .

Capisca

Cheers

Memories. G'day Dig.
Termite

Originally Posted by silentC

You know, I often ask myself that very same question....

Does your answer make any more sense to you than my answer does to me
Kind Regards
Termite

I dunno, I never get an answer. I don't think I can remember. It's like the 60's - they reckon if you remember them, you weren't there....

Originally Posted by Termite

Memories. G'day Dig.
Termite

Not all of them are Good , ..but it was fun

Cheers

Darren
How come every time I read a thread that goes off topic like this one, you seem to be the culprit? It's about time you grew up. Oh bugger you just did that! I liked you better when your age was 8, at nine you were trying too hard to be a smart ar33 (shane edited all my #@4s last time) and at 39 you're just as bad as the rest of us (except, of course, present company)
Now go to your room and give yourself a long hard stare, (I learned that one 25 years ago on the curiosity show ) If after two or three days you don't fall in half you can come back and resume your thread sabotaging.

Originally Posted by hovo

Darren
How come every time I read a thread that goes off topic like this one, you seem to be the culprit?

Yeah Darren...HOW COME!!!????

And this is MY thread and all!!!!!! How dare you!!


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Originally Posted by silentC

Jeez, I thought everyone knew about that trick. I learned it 25 years ago watching Dean on the Curiosity Show.

Dean Martin, James Dean, or Jan and Dean?

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Tut tut, So how long does a 1 micron pleated filter last?? Anybody!!

and also back on track (but not as much fun), someone mentioned truck filters.
Is that for real?
Ive got a truck mechanic mate so that part would be good if its true.

Originally Posted by bitingmidge

Dean Martin, James Dean, or Jan and Dean?

Nah dopey.... torvel & dean....
Opps, :confused: that wasn't 25 years ago yet.

Originally Posted by vsquizz

Tut tut, So how long does a 1 micron pleated filter last?? Anybody!!

piece of string question.... how long will a set of tyres last?

Originally Posted by forunna

... someone mentioned truck filters...

The thing that bothers me about them is that for them to be cheap,
they have to be 2nd hand so already dust laden &...
they were used in a suction mode not a blow mode so all the collected
dust is on the outside. What's gunna happen when you start blowing
air through them from the inside. :confused:

Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

piece of string question.... how long will a set of tyres last?

I just knew somebody would say that. I should be taken out and shot.

Do you want me to re-phrase the question Cliff??. Reason I ask is some sales types will tell you for amateur usage (great definition) the filter (pleated) may last indefinetly if blown out with air occaisionally. Now it seems to me one of the factors prevalent in the considerations of middling around and conjagulating, procrastinating and fuddling over the cost and which DC to buy!! is the cost of the 1 micron filter pleated jobby.

Ssoooo bearing mind that I have a really realllyy OLD 3 HP DC with rust and your bog standard bag (its so old I think Southern Cross built it) and I'm looking to upgrade to a newbie, will having a cyclone extend the life of my expensive pleated filter or maybe I don't need it?.

Anyway, it will all depend on how many hours the dam thing runs and how much cr*p is sucked into it. I do contract engineering work 2-4 weeks, go like the clappers, heaps $$$ then it may be a month before the next job (broke by then

In the off time I (am) build fruitcaking limestone walls and fences and sheds and gardens and.....Ggrrrr ,:mad: when I am supposed to be in the shed, relaxing, contemplating life and my navel, generating a bit of sawdust and building something for the family. I recycle old jarrah from houses so the machines get a real flogging from time to time, probably more so than most amateurs. Rather than a weekend warrior I tend to be all go flat out then nothing.

I was just wondering how long other users got out of their pleated filters??

How's that grab ya . Apologies for being so unspecific (is that a word)

piece of string question

And Cliff...I was gunna tell ya a joke about three pieces of strings...but I'm afraid knot tonight

Cheers

Ssoooo bearing mind that I have a really realllyy OLD 3 HP DC with rust and your bog standard bag (its so old I think Southern Cross built it) and I'm looking to upgrade to a newbie, will having a cyclone extend the life of my expensive pleated filter or maybe I don't need it?.

Having a cyclone MUST extend the life of the filter, but I am yet to work out how long a filter will last, and how to tell if it is dead!! Mine's a paper one, had quite light use for three (ish) years. I rotate the brushes before and after each day's use, and have never tried to blow it out(!!). I suspect that the new plastic-stuff ones would last almost indefinitely in a cyclone situation, so that may in itself be enough to justify the cyclone!

I think I will tell when the DC goes blue and stops puffing!

Upgrade to a filter NOW anyway, (not a difficult change). Build your ducting (eh hee hee) and if ever you get that finished use the bits you have to power the cyclone!

Where are you Wayne??

Chees,

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