Oakley I see a couple of things I really like and a couple... Well not so much. Not that I'm someone who is ever have a major effect in your life one way or the other but I hope you'll spend a few moments and read these comments please. 1st I really liked the fact that you mentioned the other tuber, making sure giving his credits. Many say look what I can do cause I'm smart... Bla I'm a retired industrial machinist and here because I'm learning and sharing with others... It's the only way we all get better than we were yesterday. I liked and subscribed half way through this (the 1st of your videos I've seen) this faucet of your personality screamed intelligent, well orientated, team player to me. I also like your looks, a clean cut young man. You will reach a younger generation that I could ever hope too. You can really make a difference in another persons life, a major difference. Safety, both acute and accumulative. Please don't forget to mention PPE in your videos. Little things like wearing your glasses running a grinder, shades when you weld, and being mindful of sharps when are cutting may seem like nothing until an eye is gone. Really it happens all the time. Be that beacon, and you'll see someone will message you and say I still have 10 fingers because you said... Or I'm alive today because of you. I used to tell my children while they were growing up, (Be responsible for your actions and the effects they have on the people around you)I'm not telling you what to do but I do hope my suggestions ring a bell with you. About the dust collector, the 2 buckets will be stiff opening and closing at 1st but will find their sweet spot soon. HDPE is effected by temp, age and pressure and pretty durable stuff. You might want to wire mount the collector to the shop vac because the vac has wheels and can be pulled all over the shop. Otherwise you'll see hose issues forever. Or you can run a network of capped pipe to run vacuum every where you need the collector keeping the vac out of sight as well as hearing. google in wall hotel vacuum systems. That should pull up some good examples. You might also see a hose system that plugs into a wall cap. Most of these I've seen were attached to silos. Great for high volume or high value collection. Also worked great as hasmat, 1st hose system I saw was at a chrome shop I worked at as a teenager. The silo was set up in a containment field, quarter of a city block cement box. All the chemicals we used there were nasty toxic crap.check it out and see what's a fit for you.

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I have had BROWN lung from sawdust, back in 1980 or so. We were working at the Army base Craft shop in Stuttgart Germany and did not have a good filtering system. On my Chris Notap's design I used 4 buckets. One with a lid upside down but cut 5 inches off the bottom. I then filled it, lid down, with wet cement 1 inch higher than the level of the 2nd bucket when pushed down in to it. Put a contractor trash bag over #2 bucket and shoved #2 bucket down, pushing the cement up the sides a little, the sheeting kept the cement off #2 bucket. Let the cement cure for 2 days. Removed the trash bag. Bucket #3 I did the PVC piping but put 2 90 degree elbows so the hoses were coming out sideways. #4 bucket was cut like Chris Notap's UPDATED version* to slide over #3 to make it so it could not suck in. The added weight of concrete and the hoses going 90 degrees keeps it from tipping easier. See Chris Notaps Update here kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eMuFZ9GiuLDYco0.html

Good on you for commenting on Chris's video. Usually those documenting the experience of following the instructions provide just as valuable insights as the idea itself. Quite often the first video is more hype than benefit. Also hope you enjoy starting a workshop with all the possibilities.

I discovered a much better way to put the two buckets together. It involves sacrificing a third bucket, but if you can handle that expense it's much simpler than your method. All I did was cut around the third bucket just below the handle, then cut around it again about four inches further down. That gave me a sleeve that will fit snugly into the top bucket, leaving about an inch below the connection point. Now the two buckets just go together, making a very tight seal. They are easy to lock together, and easy to separate. Feel free to try this. Worked for me, eh. Thanks.

This has been done in a few different ways. Using the rigid vacuum was probably my favorite version.

I used a sump pump hose for the intake. It's cheap, and long, which means i can mostly not have to move the bucket around. I use it primarily with my orbital sander. Definitely look at Notap's latest revision to solve stability and collapsing issues.

Add some wheels to your collector and it will roll around instead of tipping over. Also you definitely need a longer hose. I have found that twice the length you think you need is what you should have. Great video. Thanks!!

Great video. I'm going to build something similar but will put the inlet to the cyclone further down. The idea being that fine dust will have less chance of being sucked through to the shop vac. Thank you for the time and thought you must have put into this

Good add on putting board on bottom of bucket

I was also inspired by Chris Notap's design but wanted some imperial data using extremely fine dust. I followed his instructions with one alteration. I used 90-degree elbows on the inlet and outlet of the exterior of the cyclone dust collector. I used a 5-gallon 6-amp Shop Vac with factory pleated filter as vacuum source. The collection hose used was a 1-1/4 Shop Vac hose. The hose between the cyclone and vac is a 90 cm piece of 1-1/4 pool hose. I used Portland cement powder as a substitute for drywall dust figuring it is a similar particle size and density. I tried to suck up the Portland over a couple of minutes but realistically, this particle flow rate is way high. This resulted in extreme static build up. Here are my results: 1109 grams Portland sample. 964 grams collected in cyclone. Unmeasurable amount in Shop Vac barrel measuring with a scale with 1 gram resolution. 7 grams on Shop Vac filter. This was enough to audibly detect the Shop Vac loading but not plugged. The static build up seemed to result in the remaining 138 grams to be precipitated out on the inside of both hose.

I really enjoyed making the dust collector I made a couple of improvements weighted the bucket with a 2x14 on the bottom I cut out a hole for the bucket to fit inside and then I cut a 2 inch rim and then I was able to recess the bucket inside the wood base I was also able to install some small wheels on the bottom

good job

Thank you for sharing, I think I will try one to pick up all my metal shavings from the lathe and grinders, have a good day, be safe, all the best from Montevideo

"Fiction Frit", gotta love it! Those of you that check out Chris Notap's video, should appreciate his sense of humor as well!! Great video's all! Cheers! Gb

Great video. I’m going to try to use this as a pellet fine separator/transfer to 5 gal buckets. Perhaps if you screwed the collector to a harbor freight wood furniture dolly to stabilize and also mount the shop vac them both will be mobile.

Funny as I just went through this same process making Chris Notap's dust cyclone about three or four days ago after I bought myself a Rigid shop vac. The issue I need to address on it is that it caves in when the vacuum is blocked. I know that he put a fix on his video update which involves putting other HD buckets around the dust collector, so I will need to try that.

Use a 1.75" hole saw. Then ream out the hole.

WELL DONE !

About the ,"not picking up as much as you thought", I hooked two shop vac's together and there was a definite increase in suction. Working on how to stack/mount all the machines and bucket so they don't take up so much space.

I was looking at his home depot video last week I have made one similar & liked it but thinking this looks interesting & would be easier to mty the dust

I used a 65 gallon food barrel but I have a 1 hp dust vacuum with 4 " port. Had power before but would get clogged all the time. Now has much more power and no dust/debry at all goes to the mesh guard at the propeller where it would get clogged.

Excellent

Great video,, I had actually seen Chris's video before this one. But something came to mind that I didn't catch either of you mentioning. It may not even matter at all but does a clockwise cyclone perform better than a counterclockwise cyclone?

Try cutting a round platform for the bottom.

Do you see any issues using 2” ABS pipe and fittings instead of 1 1/2”? If the shop vac comes with 2” hose it seems silly to reduce it with 1 1/2” fittings. I imagine air-flow (cubic feet per minute) would be greatly reduced by reducing to 1 1/2”. Am I seeing this wrong?

How is it holding up? Mine ripped the bucket where the piping goes, I’ll be using a 55gallon bucket made of fiberglass

I subscribed! I also observed that you did not angle down the 45. It seems that it will not make a difference one way or another. Chris did have more dust on his cloth filter, but he also demonstrated more sawdust to pick up. I am going to make one as well without angling down the 45 and will not buy the Dust Deputy. Seems easy enough and I have small swivel casters ready to go for the base. This is a nice idea and perhaps a youtube channel where you replicate what others did (and review the results) and give them credit will be popular. At least I will have an interest in that. So many carpenters make things look so easy, but I wonder if I am up to even the simplest of projects...

Put street 90's at the top then put on the rubber caps...maybe put dowl rods crossing inside bucket to prevent collapsing...or glue another bucket to the bottom bucket...never needs to be removed....mount system to 4 wheel dolly from home depot...easily move around shop and won't tip over...just screw 2nd bottom bucket to the dolly....maybe with screws secure it to the bottom bucket

Where did you obtain the hose between top of collector and vaccuum? I have 2 1/4" dia. hose.

I made one of these and I love it. There is also a design to mount it on top of a rigid shopvac...I have that as well and is a great space saver and eliminates the falling over problem. I woiuld consider just wall mounting it too as thar might work better if you wanted to have dedicated hoses to each machine with gate valves.

Instead of cutting the bottom rim off to fit the plank, why not freehand route a trench in the plank to accommodate the rim? 🇦🇺

those elbows are called street elbows, have no idea why but they are made in black & galvanized pipe also

Where did you get the extra hose

HI my question Is I do not have much enginnering experienct would your advice to me I am to scared to make my own dust collector do you think your advice to me would be If I have a bucket top dust collector would you suggest as some have stated that 5 gallons bucket may be small so would your advice to me be to just get a 6 or 7 gallon bucket does that sound like an easy solution ? I mean I already have a bucket top separtator so like I said I am hesistant to do much engineering could I not use my bucket top cyclone with a 6 or 7 gallon instead does that sound like it may be a possiblity to you?

After completely assembled, what is the approximate total height from the floor to the tops of your hoses? Thanks for this video as it cleared up a few questions I had regarding hose size after watching Chris's video.

MAKE SURE YOU GROUND THE HOSE STATIC SHOCK DOSENT FEEL VERY GOOD

Attach buckets to $11 furniture dolly from Harbor freight. Bucket will move with you and weight of dolly should keep it from tipping over. Not bad input. Could have been done in less than 10 min though.

I watched hs video and. Yours. I have a question for you both. Why didn't you just use a hole saw for the holes?

My shop vac has 2 1/2 in hose. What size fittings do I need for buckets?

Oakley - John Kiss is offering up great advice about the safety thing and your possible influence on a new generation of DIY'ers. Nobody ever thinks nasty accidents will happen to them until they do. It took me a long time to get it as well. Don't ever feel uncomfortable making an example of yourself when applying safety procedures. I apologize upfront for getting a little political here but with this massive influx of unskilled (illegal) immigrants we are seeing today, you are going to see a major drop in quality of work and interest in quality of work. At the same time, there is going to be an uptick in just plain stupid/unsafe, third world approaches to work and your generation is going to need some individuals like you to be the example of the standard this country has set up to now. Keep up the good work bud!

15:05 It looks to me like your "45" points directly horizontal. It should have a slight downward tilt, so the debris is directed around and down. Please ignore me if I am seeing that wrong.

I used a hack saw to cut the ring off.

How can i hook this to sanders and my cordless router? These are the bigger culprits since they do not have a shop vac hook up just the fan

Why not use a plane on the bucket for the taper

Can I use this system for drywall dust?

hai sir, to mobilize your dust collector .... why not a wheel under your wood plank?

Appreciate you making your own video on this, and yet giving Chris his props. However, why wouldn't you want to use the better tool of the 2 utility knifes you have? I understand you use your box cutter for other things. But, those break off box cutter knives are only 50 cents to maybe a dollar a piece to replace. You threw me off when you said that? Always use the method and tool that works best for the job. I could see using an alternate tool if it was a high priced tool that you may not have or can't afford. But not a knife that cost a dollar. Well done though otherwise. ++Peace & Rock n' Roll++

I saw Chris Notap's video the other day and want to make one of these, too. What I'm still trying to figure out, though, is WHY we're building this dust separator? What's the benefit of keeping the shop vac clean? Is it just to keep the filter from getting dirty? Why not operate it without a filter? I've seen 2-stage filters where heavy materials go in one spot and the smaller dust goes into the shop vac (or vice versa). That I kind of understand. This design, not so much, unless it's the same thing, but it would seem everything ends up in the bucket. Thanks! And good luck building your shop!

Half round file might of worked

great video but u and anyone else that watches this video really needs to look into building a tube amplifier and pre amplifier for your own stereo system as a great hobby my dad is teaching me and my brother how to sauder the sound from a tube amplifier is a lot better than a cheap pre fabrication unit k

Why not use a hole saw for the holes?

A hole saw would’ve saved you a lot of time.

Do you not know about the home Depot dustopper separator? Lol

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utility knife? 60 grit paper.

It's not a ShopVac, it's a Ridgid.

only orange buckets in usa

Re. removing the burr. Use potato peeler

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Just make your life easier and buy one and save the time making it imo

Come on! Were you trolling for views? Yes you acknowledge "original" poster....but u still get views. Why would I sweep up my sawdust into a pile, then vac. I want to eliminate the sawdust in first place. Why not show how to collect clippings real-time . That would save a bunch of time. If I have to use shop vac to collect, why not just empty shop vac? BTW, this is your work , nit Chris's.

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