I started looking at some homemade shop-vac projects.First I did some googling, then I searched YouTube.
I found that there are different ideas and terms covering the shop-vac solution space.
The two most informative videos I found were:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRgM0iiRhVc
- How to make a dust collector with a wet/dry vac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weQOy1D_8HI
Some of the basic questions I am asking are: which shop-vac should I get and how should I evaluate other options? There are people who do review shop-vacs. And I found that C.F.M. measures are really the most important. I also learned that if one adds a cyclone dust separator to the shop-vac that the filter stays much cleaner. The next question is how should I make a cyclone dust separator?
There are several interesting projects which I found. The guys in the video had some really good solutions too, including a $15 cyclone, and blast gates which can be purchase on Amazon.com. I also found the following interesting homemade solutions:
- http://lumberjocks.com/projects/19069
- http://www.woodturnersresource.com/extras/projects/cyclone/Cyclone.html
- http://home.comcast.net/~prestondrake/Stuff_Workshop_Cyclone.htm
Blast Gates:
- http://www.homemadetools.net/blast-gates
- http://lumberjocks.com/topics/41990
- http://www.woodworkingtips.com/etips/etip020726ws.html
Silence: around the shop-vac
A Noise block around the vacuum.