Thien baffle dust collector. The thien baffle has stopped that swirling and therefore the upper bag should be staying much cleaner. April 02 2009 074914 am ive considered repainting mine but i bought the extended warranty for mine and am concerned they might fuss if i take a ford jalapeno green or maybe hugger orange dust collector in to them. Thien baffle for dust collector. Im definitely glad i did this.
Im not the first to put my thien baffle in that location. A side by side comparison of a thien baffle and cyclone. The motivation is that whilst i have a quite nice 3hp dust extractor for those in the market for such a thing dont spend 1400 with some retailers i am super happy with my 500 unit from leda machinery i want to keep the number of times i change the bags to a. When i first bought this dust collector the dust would swirl in the bottom bag like a tornado.
Adding a thien baffle to a harbor freight dc reply 8 on. I know the thien baffle is a very popular and low cost separator and i know it works rather well from experience. Building a thien baffle for a while now ive been meaning to play with making a thien baffle for my garage workshop. This is a thien baffle quickly created with a 5 gallon bucket.
Building the two bucket cyclone when i built the thien baffle style cyclone for my first small dust collector making that cylinder out of wood was a lot of workso for this one i figured id just use another bucket as the enclosing cylinder. The thien cyclone separator lid w the thien cyclone separator baffle after seeing one sexy cyclone after another at the various woodworking forums and with the understanding that cyclone lids arent true cyclones and dont offer a full cyclone experience i decided to try them nonetheless. Centrifugal dust separator a conventional cyclone separator needs a fair amount of vertical height to allow the dust to drop down the cone.