Diy Dust Collector Fan

I had a few extra furnace filters lying around so i tried attaching one to the back of the fan using hook and loop fasteners.

Diy dust collector fan. This single stage dust collector offers you lots of woodworking versatility. Homemade small dust collector. The blower shop vacs make convenient mobile dust collectors but they are very loud and consume so much power that you often have to run them on a separate circuit. This collects the particulates and dust and it deposits them into the sealed box.

I made this dust collector with parts i had on hand. How to build a diy dust collector get the basics. Most shop vacs actually consume more power and are louder than larger dust collection units like the one in the background of this photo. This is one of the easiest dust collectors to make and one that keeps the sawdust out of your shop vacuum cleaner.

I used to blow a fan directly at myself but it sucked in dust from around the shop and blew it at me. I ve been using a shop vac which saves my lungs while killing my ears i ve been too cheap to buy a commercial collector so i thought i d give this concept a whirl. So anything we can do to remove dust and particulates from the air is a step in the right direction. Obviously the i used the dust.

The bucktool dc30a dust collector is a great solution for controlling dust in a small workspace. My workshop doesn t have air conditioning and it gets pretty hot while i m working. A dust collection system is an important workshop safety feature but investing in a dust collector and running ductwork and hoses around your shop can be expensive and time consuming. At its core a dust collector is a basic wooden box with an exhaust fan or blower attached.

For my previous dust collector i used a 1 3 hp motor from a tile saw that motor was barely adequate so this time i used a 2 3 hp motor from a really cheap jobmate table saw i bought for 20 just. Having built my two bucket cyclone i figured i might as well build a dust collector to use with it instead of that noisy shopvac the trickiest part of building a dust collector is the blower. This diy air filter is made from a 20 inch box fan plywood and two 20 inch air filters. The wen 3 speed remote controlled air filtration system eradicates these contaminants by catching them in one of the two easily cleanable filters while circulating the air in your.

Super cheap to make and saves you money. You then connect a length of hose from the tool to the fan.