John Zimmerman
05-13-2005, 11:38 PM
I'm a newby on this net but was on rec.woodworking maybe 15 years ago and was one of the first members of the first neandrethal (hand tool group) on the net. I posted once on the spiral cutterhead thread but have also noticed a lot of dust collection, specifically cyclone, threads and was wondering if anyone here has built a Bill Pentz cyclone. Anyone interested in dust collection should visit this web site: http://billpentz.com//woodworking/cyclone/index.cfm.
Bill is a woodworker who has developed a lung disease and his passion is dust collection. He has become a student, designer and builder of cyclones and his web site must be hundreds of pages of everything you need or want to know about dust collection. I've built his first design and have all the pieces but am still in the process of putting them together (work, lots of travel and family stretch out these kind of projects). Anyway it should deliver >1400 cfm with a significant static pressure capability for an investment of less than $500.00 but lots of sweat equity. By the way, there is a feeling Grizzly ripped off his design with their latest cyclones, which means if they built them well they probably will work pretty good.
John Zimmerman
Bill is a woodworker who has developed a lung disease and his passion is dust collection. He has become a student, designer and builder of cyclones and his web site must be hundreds of pages of everything you need or want to know about dust collection. I've built his first design and have all the pieces but am still in the process of putting them together (work, lots of travel and family stretch out these kind of projects). Anyway it should deliver >1400 cfm with a significant static pressure capability for an investment of less than $500.00 but lots of sweat equity. By the way, there is a feeling Grizzly ripped off his design with their latest cyclones, which means if they built them well they probably will work pretty good.
John Zimmerman