Low profile dust collector?

[Henry Ambrose]

Has anyone here made or seen a low profile dust collector?
I'd like to build a new outfeed table for my cabinet saw and it'd be great if I could house my dust collector completely underneath. I'm perfectly willing to take it apart and fab new parts to get it under the table.

I can live with more frequent emptying if I have to. I'm thinking that if I use a 4X4 foot area it'd still hold a lot of chips and dust even if its not very deep.

Any thoughts on this?

[Jamie Buxton]

Well, there are horizontal-bag collectors like http://www.pennstateind.com/store/DC3-1M.html

Grizzly makes one like this, and I think Craftsman too.

A drawback to these systems is that all the collected dust acts to reduce the filter area, which reduces the cfm. You'd probably do well to put a Thein-style separator in your system to catch a lot of the dust before it gets to the filter.

[Henry Ambrose]

Thanks, I'd not seen one like you show.

[David Hostetler]

IF you are going to go that route, you might be better off with a 2HP blower, to a pleated filter, pulling through a Thien separator in a 20 gallon trash can. I have a Shop Vac / Thien trash can separator under the wing of my Table saw for sanders and such, I would think you could rig up a blower ducted to a filter in place of the shop vac pretty easy....

[Brian Ross]

http://www.kraemertool.com/smport.htm

The above link is probably what you are looking for. The 2 hp unit is only 32 inches high. They are made in Canada so like anything else made in North America they have a premium price attached.
The company that manufacturers them caters to industry.

Brian

[Jerome Stanek]

have one of these on my backup CNC with a Thien hooked up works really great

http://www.harborfreight.com/13-gallon-industrial-portable-dust-collector-31810.html

[Henry Ambrose]

Thanks everyone!

That Kramer S2L looks like what I want.
Now to figure out how to reconfigure my old vertical unit.

If anyone has something to add please do so.

[Michael MacDonald]

perhaps the cheapest route is the 900 CFM mini blower from HF. Then put a thein separator in front of it... on sale for $70 on the website right now...

http://www.harborfreight.com/1-hp-mini-dust-collector-94029.html

[Rod Sheridan]

perhaps the cheapest route is the 900 CFM mini blower from HF. Then put a thein separator in front of it... on sale for $70 on the website right now...

http://www.harborfreight.com/1-hp-mini-dust-collector-94029.html

You'll regret buying that machine, it's a wound rotor motor, 112dB.....Your neighbours will need earmuffs:D

regards, Rod.