Thread: More on emptying your dust extractor

Originally Posted by Arron

I wanted to return to the subject of how do you empty your dust extractor but as my previous thread on the subject seems to have gone in another direction I am restarting the subject here in this thread.

Answers to the question posed in my previous thread indicate that the way I was doing it (ie shaking the dust down, letting it settle then gently easing off the lower bag, all the while wearing a respirator) is pretty much all there is.

Hi Aaron,

Firstly my apologies for my part in the hijack of your original thread on this subject. It may not have given you the answer you sought but a lot of good information came out anyway, which is good to have recorded in this wonderful bank of knowledge.

Anyway to address your problem, I think that your council bin idea has a lot of merit if one issue can be resolved. It needs to be sealed in an airtight way to the metal ring of the dusty so that all the air still goes out through the felt or pleated filter.

Since this requires creating an interface between a circle and a squarish opening, it may be easier instead to make a solid container for this purpose.

THere may be other ideas but I will start off by suggesting a square MDF or ply box the right height to sit under the ring, with a circular hole of the right diameter with some sort of sponge rubber gasket to seal the gap between the metal ring and the box. A plywood ring around the metal ring would probably help to make a better seal.

How's that for a start? (and I didnt mention the C word so we might just stay on topic.)

Doug

who you calling a moron?

Personally I would say any thing that dose away with having to wrestle that metal strap that holds the bags on would be a move in the right direction.
Regards

Originally Posted by A Duke

Personally I would say any thing that dose away with having to wrestle that metal strap that holds the bags on would be a move in the right direction.
Regards

I agree that metal strap thing is a PITA. My dc uses a large plastic ring that you fold the edge of the plastic bags over and then you partially collapse the ring in on itself and insert the folded bag and ring into the DC opening and force the plastic ring to snap bak to full size. It works very effectively and while not exactly easy it is better than the metal clippy strap method.

For the top bag the plastic ring is sewn into the rim of the bag and that is even easier to take off and refit.

If a filter is used on the top half maybe omething like a big blast gate could be employed to lock off the filter so the bottom bag could be emptied?

Here's a pic of my collection box
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The second one shows the hole that everything falls thru, I have lined the inside of the box since I took these pics so it makes it easier to clean out, it also allows me to form a seal up against the underside of the box, I do this when I want to collect dust from manmade boards/glue/paint off reclaimed boards or other undesirable stuff that I won't put on the garden, this goes in the bin to the tip, to get it there I have a 25 litre steel bin that I put a liner in, I then put a ~50mm thick bit of foam around the top of the bin capturing the liner, I put the bin in the box with the foam forced up against the underside of the box, when I'm finished I take the bin out (hopefully I haven't gone over the top) and then take the liner out with chips/paint, tie a knot in the bag and straight into the bin, nice and clean, only time it goes bad is if I fill it over the top of the 25 L bin which then spills out into the box which I then clean up and put into another liner/bin.

Might be a clue here in this process


Pete