066 Modified Harbor Freight Dust Collector Video 3

all right so this is the bottom the bottom piece uh this this ring is where the uh trash can will be and let's see something like like this so it's sitting on top of the trash can you got a large opening and this is where the actual baffle will be placed I cut pie shape opening just to give some support for this this middle section because I did remove some for the ring to sit in so I could just line these up on that Center piece and then I could use my screw over here for locating and make sure everything lines up nice and neat um round over these edges real quick and that's it for the Bottom now I just got to make a ring for the top all right with the uh assembly starting to take take shape I've just screwed these two plates together I'm going to come back and glue them together but for right now they're just screwed um going to make two more plates for the top one is just going to be a ring or actually it's just going to be a square with a circle cutout to sit on top of here and a 4-in hole in the middle and then the next is going to be a little bit smaller it's going to be about a 17in with a 17in square cuz it's got a butt up against this Outlet and then about a 4in circle in the middle so uh two pieces about 21 in and then 17 in [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] w [Music] so I only lack one more cut this piece right here is my 17in piece and I've got a 5-in hole right in the middle for the uh fan motor or the for the air flow and purpose of this spacer is so that I have a mounting surface that is higher than this exhaust flange so this can be flipped upside down and mounted now I need to take that same 5in hole and put it right in the middle of here I've got it marked but it's on the other side and what I've already done is I've already cut a Groove that's about 38 of an inch deep uh half inch rter bit uh like before and this fits in there really snug it uh actually lifting it out of the bottom but it fits in there nice and snug and what I'm going to do just to seal up all these joints uh I don't want to deal with weather stripping like I originally planned and I don't want to deal with uh cocking or silicone or anything like that uh I'm just going to use electrical tape that'll seal it up just nice and neat uh so long as you don't stretch it before you apply it uh that electrical tape will last a long time and it'll actually do a really good job sealing this all off so I'm excited to get this thing going I just just got to mount or cut that one hole right in the middle of the top piece all right here it is all together uh real quick you've got the air coming in them baffle larger ships down uh smaller dust out the back and outside so um I've got a I've got a lot of extra parts left over that I didn't need uh pretty decent set of casters a lot of nuts and bolts all these little small spots these mounting brackets for the the uh the ring uh I'm just going to fill those in uh I'm not exactly sure what I'm going to do I don't want to put bolts through because that'll create some crap on the inside for it to hit against uh I'm going to take this back apart and glue these two together I've already spread a layer of glue on this one I just got to screw these two together and uh other than that I mean it's done I'm going to like I said I'm going to come back and put some some uh electrical tape around all the joints to kind of air seal it but I'm ready to put some power to this thing all right I did a test run before I sealed it all off with tape just to see uh what was going on uh I don't have proper hose right now so that is just a 4 in by 8T piece of expandable drainage pipe non preforated everyone said from all the things I've read everyone said that wouldn't work uh for this small of a run it worked just fine so until I get my good hose in that's what I'm going to use uh however I had it all stacked in here and I've got my hose let see if I can get it with the light got my hose fitted through a hole in my Plex glass and it is just coming out the window and going down there's nobody behind me so that works out just fine um but anyway I had it going and what I did is I just took my hose and stuck it right into my dust bucket that normally comes out the back of my table saw so you can pretty much see where the level was and it just started sucking up as much obviously that's just way too much at once I was expecting to get this thing clogged uh so what happened was it did get clogged just a little bit my air comes in through this side of the baffle comes around and right about here it started to pile up and it was clogged so I may just take off a/4 of an inch eighth of an in something like that off this baffle uh but then again like I said I just took my hose and dumped it right into that bucket so but I did get quite a bit in here I'd say the vast majority of it is in here all the larger stuff is in here uh I went outside and uh there's a little bit of dust on the grass not much but there is a little bit so uh so far so good all these larger planer shavings they all came in here and this is let me see if I can't get to the bottom of it that's about and spreading it all around it's probably about four or five in in the bottom of here so uh this thing works really really good I don't know I don't know how to compare it to the way it's supposed to be set up because obviously I've never had it set up that way but um you know all the dust went outside sucking up all kinds of dust and not stirring up any in the shop so uh negative pressure because I am blowing outside so I have a window open in one of them other rooms over there and that will allow a natural slight draft that way so it works I'm going to get it all put together and do another test run