Thread: dust extractor

Hi
I think 60 CFM is fairly useless, I just upgraded from 600CFM to 1200CFM.
Even the 600CFM was fairly ordinary with a router.
Cheers, Allan

Spargs, buy the Triton dust bucket, attach a cheapo vacuum cleaner and thats a good start for around $100 (you can get 2nd hand vacuums cheap). Then if you want to, make the Sturdee mod to it explained in detail elsewhere in these forums. It's fabulous. I've just emptied my 15L paint tin and hardly a speck got in the vacuum. There's no way i'd spend the big dollars on anything....this one fits my needs perfectly.

On the subject of vacuums, Bunnings (I know ) have a unit called a Shop Vac, made in the USA and on special @ $100 when I bought mine a couple of weeks ago. Very happy with it, and it would suck the pickets off a fence. Should be able to make a reasonable small cyclone with it, and it has a large hose - about 50-60mm I think.
Bunnings now have them as a standard line I think.

Rather than destroy my Triton Dust Bucket I decided to make a Mini Cyclone along the lines of Sturdee's by using a $9.00, 20 litre plastic drum with a lid from Bunnings.

I used 40 mm plastic plumbing fittings that I had and some scrap pine board. I bought a funnel from Supercheap Autos the same as Sturdee.

I mounted it on a 20 litre metal paint drum with a removable lid with a ring clip fastener (This I got for free along with three others from a painter friend all nicely washed out.)

The Triton flexible hose fits inside 40mm sewerage pipe so you really don't need any special fittings to connect the pipe.

So if you don't have a Triton Dust Bucket this is a cheaper option.

I can at least sell my Triton Dust Bucket if I get desprate for a few dollars.

I also mounted it on a little trolley so that I can move it around easily.

I have posted a few pictures

This one is of the complete unit mounted on the trolley.

This is another view of the complete unit.

This is a view of the inside of the lid of the cyclone.

This shows the lid of the cyclone, the inside of the cyclone and the inside of the paint drum.

BTW all I'm using is a little 1000 watt Sanyo vacuum with it which seems to suck ok and it seems to work pretty well.

Thats bloody brilliant Baz. i must say I hacked into my Triton dust bucket with a bit of trepidation but what the heck, it was going to be made redundant anyway so I thought I wouldn't burn much money if I giot it wrong or it didn't work BUT I had seen the Sturdee one working firast hand so it wasn't a big problem. The point is, it works.

Oh yeah, and my vacuum is only a little 1000 wat bugger too !

.......I hacked into my Triton dust bucket with a bit of trepidation ...

Oh Gumby, so little faith despite having seen it work


Bazza, great job you did on your version of the dust bucket and I am glad that the additional info helped.

Peter.

Forgive me Inspector , I should have known better

Nice work Barry, Any chance of some more details on the bucket/funnel assembly?

BTW, i picked up a wet/dry vac at our local tip for $5.00, no garrantees that it was going to work, lo and behold, the only thing wrong with it was a broken castor on the front mounting frame.

G

Hi Glenn

It is mainly the design of Sturdee's that I went by. If you have a look at the following thread it will give you the basic details.
http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...2513#post42513
The changes I made were that I used a plastic drum from Bunnings instead of the Triton bucket. In the lid of the bucket I cut a disc out of pineboard for the inside the same dia as the inside of the lid and screwed it to the inside with four screws and flat washers from the outside.

I then cut a smaller disc for the outside and screwed it through to the inside disc in the centre of the the lid.

I then bored a 1 3/4" hole through the centre and at the edge and used 40mm sewerage pipe and elbows and joiners to create the inlets and outlets.

The only difference to Sturdee's at the bottom is that I put an extra pine board disc between the bottom of the bucket and the lid of the paint drum.

Any problems let me know and I will do a sketch.