Mathieu Beauregard
03-03-2008, 11:12 AM
As its names suggest, my Frankencyclone is a mix of parts from several past failed projects, put together in a not to elegant way. The odd thing is, it works amazingly well !
As a dust collector retrofitting solution, its a lot cheaper than Oneida's "Pod" dust collector retrofit unit and certainly a lot more efficient than all the "canister" type retrofit.
Keep in mind this is a hack and its nowhere close to the performance of a real cyclone like the ClearVue, but for 50$ (plus the price of the filter), I believe its a decent interim solution.
Basically, this is a push-through design using a 2HP / 12 inch impeller.
Here it is (its in a small room so I had to take multiple pictures):
http://pages.videotron.com/guizzmo/cyclone/cyclone1.jpg
http://pages.videotron.com/guizzmo/cyclone/cyclone2.jpg
http://pages.videotron.com/guizzmo/cyclone/cyclone3.jpg
I must thank Bill Pentz for his incredible dedication to the subject of dust collection in woodworking. The amount of quality information found on his site, his sound scientific approach and his willingness to share all of this information for free with everybody is extraordinary.
I would have gladly paid for books with this kind of content in them. So I sent him an equivalent paypal donation to help with the maintenance of his site.
That being said, I hope he won't be too insulted by my liberal butchering of his design ;)
You can find more pictures and detailed information on this page:
http://pages.videotron.com/guizzmo/cyclone/index.html
As a dust collector retrofitting solution, its a lot cheaper than Oneida's "Pod" dust collector retrofit unit and certainly a lot more efficient than all the "canister" type retrofit.
Keep in mind this is a hack and its nowhere close to the performance of a real cyclone like the ClearVue, but for 50$ (plus the price of the filter), I believe its a decent interim solution.
Basically, this is a push-through design using a 2HP / 12 inch impeller.
Here it is (its in a small room so I had to take multiple pictures):
http://pages.videotron.com/guizzmo/cyclone/cyclone1.jpg
http://pages.videotron.com/guizzmo/cyclone/cyclone2.jpg
http://pages.videotron.com/guizzmo/cyclone/cyclone3.jpg
I must thank Bill Pentz for his incredible dedication to the subject of dust collection in woodworking. The amount of quality information found on his site, his sound scientific approach and his willingness to share all of this information for free with everybody is extraordinary.
I would have gladly paid for books with this kind of content in them. So I sent him an equivalent paypal donation to help with the maintenance of his site.
That being said, I hope he won't be too insulted by my liberal butchering of his design ;)
You can find more pictures and detailed information on this page:
http://pages.videotron.com/guizzmo/cyclone/index.html