Hi all,
I've had a single stage 2 HP Shop Fox dust collector for a dozen years. I've been planning to mount it on a wall to save space in my 2 car garage shop for many years and finally got around to the upgrade. At the same time I decided to add switched blast gates so that everything could be closed off except the machine in operation. I've had a long ranger remote, but knew that I would be constantly forgetting to close gates and/or be searching around for the remote. All of this now makes sense because i've also finished clearing out the shop, adding lights, sheetrocking, and have a tool layout that is stable.
Anyway, here are some photos for anyone considering the same. Many thanks to folks here for inspiration and guidance along the way.
5" mainline, 4" drops. The wyes were ordered on-line and was able to find the rest of the fittings local. The straight pipe is 26 ga. snap-lock and is a whole different animal than 30 ga. usually found at the home center. I got mine from a local heating/AC outfit and was about 50% more than 30 ga.
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I built a 'cage' to hold the SSD out of scrap. I'll likely replace the dust bag with a cartridge at some point. Right now, the upper bag is just tied off to get as much clearance as possible.
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I used 5" for the mainline (26 ga.) and made a bin out of a 30 gal rubbermaid trash bin and scrap mdf. The bin was selected to fit in a fairly tight spot after getting a 55 gal drum and deciding that was waaaay too big. The bin gets sucked in a bit but is holding up fine so far. Need to put a piece of plexi on the side to monitor dust level yet.
Sealed at the top with foam gasket and captured by wood rails
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The connection to the SSD is a 1" plywood gasket and a 5"-6" reducer
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