Thanks for sharing your process. Very easy and clean. Nice!

Very well thought out! This answers why so many people have trouble with blast gates clogging. This will be very helpful when I do my setup. Thank you very much!!

Thank you. Good idea to stop sawdust buildup on the back of the gate, and simple cost effective construction

Hello John, I live in Ontario Canada. Many years ago I made a cyclone for dust collection from plans in Wood magazine. It does not have the spiral ramp in the hat and pieces rattle around until I turn it off. I am going to make ramp and install it. Thanks so much for your inspiration.😊

Good job. I did not expect so much dust to drop out of the main pipe.

Thank you for the great tip and nice dust gate design.

Very helpful video Thanks for sharing 👍👏👍👏

Thank you for sharing.

Very nice thank you!!!

Mantabs Mas. 👍

Excellent!

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Dear Jhon, thanks a lot for the great video. Epoxy is dangerous stuff, you will develop an allergic reaction on your skin if you do this repeatedly - please wear a nitril glove next time. Kind regards!

Wow, lots of dust dropping into the other passages. Good solution! Does any dust make it past the vortex separator?

Just thinking here, why not mount blast gates near the main/horizontal pipe, immidiately under horizontal pipe? That way the whole branch is isolated from the system, actually all branches are except the one in use. Would that achieve 2 things: less pressure drop due to reduction of pathway - so only the main pipe is used with one branch, second no or less dust collected in secondaries as the gate is near main pathway? I havent built this so I dont know, I am just thinking out loud, I am sure you will know better. Great videos and beautiful work, thank you very much for sharing.

Waxing the gate before assembly will help it slide and prevent the epoxy sticking.

Nicely done, easiest one yet to build. But I want to put my two cents in about the angle of your blast gate. I have my blast gates installed at 90 degrees for over three years now and I’m an avid wood worker and never had a problem with dust or wood chips getting collected on top of a closed gate….maybe every now and then I get about a pinch size, but thats because my pipes are not taped up or sealed properly on the connections. BUT IN REALITY, you will never suck up that much wood chips in one single time. Not even the powerful dust collector will suck all of those straight into the drum if you have a system with two or more Y-connectors. Your 3” pipe isn’t big enough for your system, thats why you’re not getting a lot of suction from any of your inputs.