Why not tape a furnace filter to the backside of a 10$ 20" window fan, and stick it near your dust-sorce ? Several of them, if need be ? Thump --- Farrell <mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com> wrote: > I recently purchased a 5 hp cyclone dust > collector/separator for my woodworking shop. It has > yet to be delivered. I would like to solicit input > from any of you folks that have used/installed one > of these units - or maybe even someone who has just > put some thought into it. > > My air-conditioned concrete-block shop is attached > to the rear of my concrete-block 2-car garage. I > have been thinking of installing the cyclone in the > garage, piping through the shop and exhausting > outside the rear of the shop with no filters. This > has the advantage of keeping a lot of the noise out > of my shop and no hassles with filters. The downside > of such an installation is that the garage is very > close to my neighbor's nice back porch with pool > (the noise might be a problem) and all the air that > is exhausted outside the shop has to be made up with > outside air coming back into the shop (half the > year, humid and hot) - if this thing actually moves > anything close to 1,500 CFM, it will replace all the > air in my shop every six minutes or so. > > The alternatives are to install it inside the shop > and exhaust through filters inside the shop (noisy, > filter expense and hassle). > > Does anyone have experience with these decisions? > Thanks for any input. > > Terry Farrell __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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