Harbor freight dust collector upgrade impeller. The stock blower cant push enough air to support a 6 opening. Id like to know if anyone has successfully done the upgrade and if they did what part did they use. The dust collector build started with a stock 2hp single phase harbor freight dust collector. I have read a few articlesposts online about adding a larger impeller to a harbor freight dust collector.
To seamlessly connect to the super dust deputy xl im going to upgrade the impeller. I bought a replacement impeller for the rikon 60 200 dust collector for 120 including sh and swapped it out of my stock harbor freight dust collector. A great job with this and should answer many question about the true cfm of the hf dust collector. Ive done a lot of searching but havent seen any part numbers of successful upgrades.
13 gallon 1 hp heavy duty high flow dust collector. By most accounts this is too small for a 2hp system leaving usable hp off the table. 13 gallon 1 hp heavy duty high flow dust collector 154 99. I am really happy with the results.
Can someone point me to the thread or better yet to the actual rikon part number. After a year of running the hf dd im upgrading to overhead rigid ducting and a super dust deputy cyclone. Harbor freight 2hp dust collector modification part 13 duration. Dust collector impeller upgrade testing air flow suction.
I shot a video of the entire process and measured the cfm of the final system. Here is a link to the video. The harbor freight 2hp dust collector has a 10 impeller. Harbor freight buys their top quality tools from the same factories that supply our competitors.
I hadnt been able to find performance data on the rikon upgrade so i thought id share what ive learned. I modified my harbor freight dust collector with the 12 rikon impeller opened up the inlet to 6 and turned it into a two stage scylone with the super dust deputy xl. Air foxx ufo 40h at 29999. The part number is p60 200 22 and was 120.
It was backordered and took a while to get to delivered. The impeller is from a rikon dust collector. Rikon impeller to a 2hp harbor freight dust collector. Dust collectors 9 items.
Ill have a lot more to say about the motor and the value of the upgrade in a future post. The hf impeller is 10 forward facing.