Thread: Emptying the dust bin

Originally Posted by Eowyn

How messy and difficult is it to empty your dust bin under a cyclone? ... Thoughts?

I dont have a clearvue, I made my own cyclone and emptying the bin is dead easy. I designed it that way. It is much easier than emptying a plastic bag and a felt filter bag.

My cyclone is made of 2 x 44 gallon drums, the top one has a sheet metal cone inside and the bottom one is the collector. I cant imagine that it would be too difficut to set up a clearvue to be able to be emptied easily if you have enough height clearance,

Cheers

Doug

Hi Doug
How do dispose of the collected dust? Pour it into another bin?

Originally Posted by Eowyn

How do dispose of the collected dust? Pour it into another bin?

one of two ways:

1. tip it onto the garden as mulch. thats the preferred method and I wear a dust mask when I do it even though very little dust seems to become airborne and I am in the open air. It just keeps BobL off my back.

2. If I cant fit any more in the gardens, I put a wheelie-bin bag over the top of the 44 gallon drum and seal it on with the band that seals the top on the drum when it is in use and slowly invert the drum. Once it is all in the bag and the dust has settled, I put a tie round the bag and release the band to remove the drum. Once again I wear a dust mask while doing al of this once again not that I have experienced any significant airborne dust while doing it.

Once it is in the bag I have a number of options but in the few occasions when I have had to bag it someone has taken it to mulch their own gardens.

Cheers

Doug

Originally Posted by Eowyn

How messy and difficult is it to empty your dust bin under a cyclone?

And I have a spare green wheelie council rubbish bin. I'ld have to figure out how to make a connection between the wheelie bin and bottom of the cyclone, and provide a seal to the top of the bin, but this could really simplify the disposal problem

Thoughts?

This is how we did it at the Bicton Mens Shed

Cut a 6" hole in board, fitted SW pipe & sealed joint, connected with 6" flex. Placed location blocks on the underside and positioned construction foam to seal with the top of the bin.

Originally Posted by Eowyn

How messy and difficult is it to empty your dust bin under a cyclone?

I get my triple garage in a few weeks, and friend and I were discussing setting up a Clearvue 1800. The garage has rather high ceilings (2.7m plus?), and potentially some roof space as well. And I have a spare green wheelie council rubbish bin. I'ld have to figure out how to make a connection between the wheelie bin and bottom of the cyclone, and provide a seal to the top of the bin, but this could really simplify the disposal problem (for me, not too sure about the garbage pickup!). (Also have to check that the lid colour on my bin matches the standard rubbish bin colour in the area).

Thoughts?

Just a couple of thoughts. It seems to me that you might be implying that you could simply wheel the bin to the kerb and let the council take it. Good luck if you can get away with it. My local council will only empty one bin per house and then only a bin that has their markings on it.

Just be careful when you buy a wheelie bin as the really cheap ones ( I mean relatively really cheap ) can be sucked in due to flimsy plastic used in the construction.

You must be able to be sure of an airtight fit for the lid, such as Warrigal men's shed design or you risk reversing the cyclone effect and possibly breaking the impeller or housing by feeding a large item into the impeller and housing.

hi Shedman
Yep, wheelie bin to the kerb is the hope. My rubbish bin usually only goes out once a fortnight if not once a month, so I wouldn't ever be putting two out at once. As you say, the trick will be get /find/disguise a bin so that the council guys will pick it up.

I saw a note on another thread about the sides of the bin being sucked in so I'll watch out for that. And i'm planning on an airtight lid.

I hope its not windy on pickup day, or you will end up with more dust on the road than in the truck.

Or worse ... Into the drivers window. God help if that happens.



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I just empty my dustie bag into a strong large garbage bag and then put that into the wheelie bin,I don't try to use in as mulch as it almost has treated pine saw dust in it,so no good for the garden or compost heap.