Shop Vac Dust Separator

The separator also works quite well with a shop vac but you will need to adapt the 4 fittings to fit your shop vac hose.

Shop vac dust separator. My shop vac filter element was plugging up with dust much to frequently for my tastes. Eligible for free shipping. For 70 to 110 and an hour of your time you can set up a smaller version of a whole shop dust collection system complete with enough blast gates and inlets to handle a range of fixed and portable tools. Hello everyone in this tutorial im sharing how to build a dust collection cart for the ridgid shop vacuum and dustopper a cyclone dust separator for a 5 gallon bucket.

Get it as soon as sun may 10. Scrap 2x4 2x6 lumber sheet metal screws 3 round metal duct steel wire 3 hose clamp duct tape old shop vac hoses and tubes. I wanted to make a dust separator that didnt have a hose or pipe connecting it to the shop vac and i wanted it to be a single unit to make it easy to move around and take up less space. This sends all the dust through the filter of the shop vac and the shop vac collects it.

The diy dust collector system we used is made by shop vac. A great add on to this set up is a cyclone or a separator. 1 16 of 259 results for shop vac dust separator skip to main search results amazon prime. This and other systems are available at home centers hardware stores and on line.

I have the dust right separator where i hook up a hose to my tool that feeds into the separator then the separator feeds into the shop vac. High efficiency dust separator 12 in. Still need to clean out the shop vac and filter but this has saved my shop vac from burning out and reduces the dust in the air. It will keep your shop vacuum cleaner filter element clean and not clog it.

Dia with 25 in. Keep in mind that if you clog the hose or overfill the collection bucket the internal cyclone will stop working and the dust will instead escape through the top port. Cyclone dust collector dust collection dust separator shop vac accessories. This is a weekend diy projectread more.

I attached this dust separator to a small container too small actually and 90 of the drywall dust is captured. For this project the middle pvc pipe installed in the dust collector lid is 125. 42 out of 5 stars 121. Free shipping by amazon.

Long ridgid hose and accessory adapter kit for ridgid wetdry shop vacuums ridgid 2 12 in. Note about the pipe diameter. To reduce the dust loading to the filter i built a cyclone separator to act a a prefilter to the shop vac.