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I recently bought and installed this moisture filter system -...

Never even thought of that, Ole! Very good point, though. We will definitely move things out a bit. Thank you

Knowing that the branch needs to be upsized to support potentially more than one 4" port does answer one of my primary concerns. Laying everything out was the hard part. Resizing things is easy in...

Thanks, Glenn. I appreciate that this isn't the best way to achieve it, but we've got to work with what we have in this instance.

I am taking the 4x4" off of the DC, which exposes a 10" inlet. It...

The motor that we have has a 15" impeller.Having 4 ports open at once is an absolute worst case scenario. We spend a LOT of time not at the tools hand sanding, assembling, etc... so the most likely...

Chris, We are dumping directly into a container outside. The output of the motor will go straight into the container.

Dominik, this blower is what we have for now. We will be moving to a new shop...

It's a 5HP grizzly motor from this guy http://www.grizzly.com/products/5-HP-Industrial-Dust-Collector/G0672

Here is a bird's eye view of our floorplan as it currently stands. Due to ceiling height restrictions (Only 12') I would like to keep things in the wall-ceiling corners as much as possible. We also...

I knew that 4" stuff sounded off. The Airhand.com guide says that if your machine has a 4" port, then the manufacturer has determined that a 4" branch will support the machine. And that a branch...

I am using the duct sizing guide at https://airhand.com/designing/ to size our ducts appropriately. I have identified our 'main' machines and have increased the ducts appropriately as these main...

Thanks Keith! I'm just suffering from a bad case of analysis paralysis right now, wanting to make sure that we don't blow a ton of money on a solution that only halfway works. It doesn't help that...

Here is where I'm currently at...

Cyclone system which exhausts outside attached to an airlock. Airlock dumps into a trash can which is hand dumped a few times per day. Eventually add a tee under...

@Keith, good info, thank you.

@Martin - The problem with the cyclone and airlock is that we need the DC to be inside the shop, but the roll off is outside. How do we rig up an auxillary blower to...

Peter, the conveyer to a briquette machine is on our list for the future, but right now we need fast and cheap. But that is definitely something we're interested in pursuing in the coming years.

Ah, thank you Julie. That helps! We were thinking of buying a heavy duty industrial tarp to cover it (Mostly to keep out rain and as you said, to eliminate dust clouds) but I do like where you're...

Hey Keith. Is your tank vertical or horizontal? My big hangup now (That I know I can blow directly into the container) is how can I effectively spread the chips throughout the container? If I had a...

20 yard right now but it's looking like we'll need to upgrade to at least a 30 next month. I don't know that I'm understanding your idea, but it sounds promising. Can you explain your idea...

Hmm...I wonder if the solution (Keeping in mind we're doing this as cheaply and as temporarily as possible) would be to just strap down a tarp over the container while it's in use? Though I wonder...

Thanks for the input on my original plan. I was/am really worried about spending a ton of money on this only to have it not work at all....and I really didn't want to invest in a cyclone and then the...

Small compared to other commercial shops. Cramped because we have a LOT of sheet goods and lumber stored and we have non dust producing machines like clamping tables..


I'm kind of winging it...

We have a small (4,500) sqft shop and are upgrading our dust collection system dramatically this month. Right now we have a Grizzly 2HP that gets rolled around to tools as they're used. Obviously...

Yeah that was recommended earlier in this thread and definitely something that I want to try out this week.

We experience the problem on the stiles as well, Leo. We started using an outboard fence last week and that indeed resolved the problem there. Our biggest issue is the edge profiles now. Last time we...

Now that's not something I've tried yet. That seems like a really easy way to get them in line with each other and compensate for that goofy cast iron

We mostly experience the issue on our edge profiles (cabinet doors) and on our stile cutter. Our panel raising cutters have a one piece fence mounted to the cast iron and the fence goes below the...