Stu Ablett in Tokyo Japan
10-09-2006, 4:59 PM
OK, I'm not trying to start anything here, I just would like some honest opinions on this.
I have a Pentz designed cyclone, that I built, I'm very happy with it, it really sucks :D
It was completed in July of 2005, so I've been using it for more than a year.
I kept count of the number of times I emptied the dust bin, when I hit 10 times, I pounded (gently) and cleaned with compressed air (again, carefully, not too close to the stack or too high pressure) my filter stack and then I let it sit over night. The next morning I cleaned out my clean out, and I got a startlingly small amount of dust.
You can see the post I made about this a while back here.........
Dust in my filters..........cyclone (http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=42818)
I have the two of the Donaldson Torit P527080-461-436ULTRA-WEB FR CARTRIDGE Ultra-Web Flame Retardant Cartridge with nanofiber technology for Downflo (2.0-inch pleat).
https://www.donaldson.com/imagelib/products/photo/284/p527080-461-436.jpg
In this Document (http://www.donaldson.com/en/industrialair/literature/000220.pdf) they say..........
BIA Rating
U,S,G, and C.
Start-up efficiency of 99.9% on 0.2-2µm.
Fractional Efficiency
99.999% on a 0.5 µm dust particles.
Now are these filters what I want for my cyclone? They seem to have worked very well, as the cyclone has, I was down in the Dungeon tonight doing some clean up and planning for my next project, and I snapped these pics of the inside of the filter stack.
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It has been nearly 3 weeks since I cleaned out the filter stack for the other thread, and I've not touched it since. The dust bin is nearing half full, so I've used it a little.
Sorry they are crappy cell phone pics, but to me, the filters still look blue, so this can only mean that they have not seen a lot of dust...? I was honestly expecting a cake of dust on the filters, but they seem fairly clean to me.........(?)
I only overfilled the cyclone once, and that was with some large sized chips (doing dado cuts on the TS) I only found one chip in the filter stack clean out at that time.........
http://www.ablett.jp/workshop/images/cyclone/cyclone_full1.JPG
http://www.ablett.jp/workshop/images/cyclone/filter_stack_clean_out_one_chip.JPG
I'm asking, because of some recent DC posts have made me curious, and wanting to ask more questions.
Did I pick the right filters?
Are they working like they should?
What kind of life should I expect out of them, 3 years, 5 years.........?
Again, I'm not trying to stir anything up, I'm relating my real life experiences, and I'm asking a few simple questions, like what the heck a "µm" is :D
TIA
Cheers!
I have a Pentz designed cyclone, that I built, I'm very happy with it, it really sucks :D
It was completed in July of 2005, so I've been using it for more than a year.
I kept count of the number of times I emptied the dust bin, when I hit 10 times, I pounded (gently) and cleaned with compressed air (again, carefully, not too close to the stack or too high pressure) my filter stack and then I let it sit over night. The next morning I cleaned out my clean out, and I got a startlingly small amount of dust.
You can see the post I made about this a while back here.........
Dust in my filters..........cyclone (http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=42818)
I have the two of the Donaldson Torit P527080-461-436ULTRA-WEB FR CARTRIDGE Ultra-Web Flame Retardant Cartridge with nanofiber technology for Downflo (2.0-inch pleat).
https://www.donaldson.com/imagelib/products/photo/284/p527080-461-436.jpg
In this Document (http://www.donaldson.com/en/industrialair/literature/000220.pdf) they say..........
BIA Rating
U,S,G, and C.
Start-up efficiency of 99.9% on 0.2-2µm.
Fractional Efficiency
99.999% on a 0.5 µm dust particles.
Now are these filters what I want for my cyclone? They seem to have worked very well, as the cyclone has, I was down in the Dungeon tonight doing some clean up and planning for my next project, and I snapped these pics of the inside of the filter stack.
48232
48233
It has been nearly 3 weeks since I cleaned out the filter stack for the other thread, and I've not touched it since. The dust bin is nearing half full, so I've used it a little.
Sorry they are crappy cell phone pics, but to me, the filters still look blue, so this can only mean that they have not seen a lot of dust...? I was honestly expecting a cake of dust on the filters, but they seem fairly clean to me.........(?)
I only overfilled the cyclone once, and that was with some large sized chips (doing dado cuts on the TS) I only found one chip in the filter stack clean out at that time.........
http://www.ablett.jp/workshop/images/cyclone/cyclone_full1.JPG
http://www.ablett.jp/workshop/images/cyclone/filter_stack_clean_out_one_chip.JPG
I'm asking, because of some recent DC posts have made me curious, and wanting to ask more questions.
Did I pick the right filters?
Are they working like they should?
What kind of life should I expect out of them, 3 years, 5 years.........?
Again, I'm not trying to stir anything up, I'm relating my real life experiences, and I'm asking a few simple questions, like what the heck a "µm" is :D
TIA
Cheers!