Not sure if this is the place, but gonna post it, i'll have to get some pictures later this am, and post, but i'm thinking i may have not correctly connected my system together, i attempted to locate individual i purchased from, but alas, he may have left for other plains, so. and while its a grizzly 3 hp, 220 v, they weren;'t much help, me thinks issue is i merely didn't hook it up to be most efficient, once you see pics you may understand my thoughts. dust collection the bane of the work shop, and on another note, found another festool dust extractor, had to drive an hour and half last week to get but bought for a song, figure fella priced it since no one wanted to drive to him, love these for the orbital sanders and small hand tools. may use on the cnc if plans work out. 

happy tuesday

rj in az

okay here are some pictures to show what i have presently, i'll type in what goes where, as i take horrible pics. 

Okay so

Edited March 21, 20233 yr by knockonit

sorry I so struggle with pictures and stuff. 

okay then

 

the two black flex units are from shop, i believe i should have them go into the silver connection at seperator instead of motor area, and have the two 4 inch go into the other connection on seperator, and have the 5 inch line you see on bottom of major motor area to the filter area, i'll again try for better pics, but thoughts on how i should have done this, i picked this up from a fella almost half a year before i installed, was sure i had pictures of his install, but alas, they went to pooter land, you know that place stuff on computer goes when you have no freaken idea whut happens. 

 

so presently i have the exhaust from the seperator going to filter, me thinks thats wrong, 

i'll try and draw a schematic, in case its hard to understand, room is so small hard to get decent pics]

thank 

rj in az

Edited March 21, 20233 yr by knockonit

I'd love to help but can't make any sense of what you've posted in the photos.  My one good dust collector has a filter on top like one of those you show, and under that is a separator that spins the incoming material to drop down in the bag below while exhaust air escapes up through the filters. Blower is beside and sucks dust from my drum sander and table saw, sending it to the input of the spinner/separator. 

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yeah, tried to get a better pic, but no can do, no room to show all, anyways, i'll figure out a drawn pic and see if it helps, am on road presently thanks all

rj in az

RJ, the air flow through the dc should be from the shop to the separator, then to the blower, and then through the filter. It looks like with what you have it goes to the blower first. there are actually some systems set up like that (push the air through the separator) but generally not in home shops.

10 minutes ago, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

RJ, the air flow through the dc should be from the shop to the separator, then to the blower, and then through the filter. It looks like with what you have it goes to the blower first. there are actually some systems set up like that (push the air through the separator) but generally not in home shops.

yeah, thats what i was thinking, so now to find some reducers to change it out, should work much more efficiently, see whut happens now to find some parts. thanks for reaffirming my direction

rj in az

You want to suck the debris into the separator and blow the relatively clean air into the filter to catch the fine dust.

So yes, the black hoses should be attached to the separator.

yep, why it took me this long to review the install, who knows, but when i was doing some planing of some ply had clogging issues, which made me review it, i'm slow, hahaha, real slow sometimes, lotsa stuff on me plate, need to prioritize

thank all

rj in az

update, on dust collector and boy howdy did i screw up original install, anyhowz, fittings due today, ole gal and i managed to clean up the dust and air compressor room, the filters were plugged due to my hook up, so hoping to hvae up and running by tomorrow, do need to put table saw to work for some parts.

cleaning pleated filters is an ugly job, lucky fella i bought from had a spare set, so over time hope to get the dirty set cleaned up enough to do duty some day, came up with a new idea to maybe make some room in the main shop area, going to require me to make some discarding of material decisions, i just can't seem to throw away a cut off, but gonna give it a go today and tomorrow. 

happy tuesday, another short pantaloon day. 

Rj in az

If you blow through the filters from the outside (very carefully) you'll get most of the dust out. But if you do that, do it outside. I always used compressed air, but a lot of guys do it with a leaf blower.

yeah, started doing that, ugly work for sure, dust mask required, and compressed air was used, tedious work for sure, gonna chip away at it, its on the bottom of list for now, thanks for info

happy tuesday

rj in a

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In your spare time RJ, fabricate yourself something similar to THIS. End caps can be made of plywood, 1/4" or 3/8"  NPT pipe with multiple drilled holes 1/8" dia. Use a regulator on inlet air to keep pressure <40 psi...you need air volume vs pressure. Easy way to inspect no damage to pleats is shine a bright light from inside.

 

Way back in the day, a simpler version was just an extended tube version, capped on the end with multiple holes attached to a standard blow gun...similar to THIS

 

Another similar type cleaner

 

 

Edited March 28, 20233 yr by Grandpadave52

well amazon delivered parts here today, and i managed to re assemble the dust system, and wowza, appears it will work much better, still have to cut a couple pcs and re route, but the basic hook up does work and appears to have more suck.

 

so as noted in comments, routed the shop lines to the blue barrel, with the other black, lines sucking from the dust collector, and exhaust going to the big filters, so hoping this does it, managed to cut some items on able saw, and wowza, to me appeared that the suction is a tad better. 

pics to folow

22 hours ago, Grandpadave52 said:

In your spare time RJ, fabricate yourself something similar to THIS. End caps can be made of plywood, 1/4" or 3/8"  NPT pipe with multiple drilled holes 1/8" dia. Use a regulator on inlet air to keep pressure <40 psi...you need air volume vs pressure. Easy way to inspect no damage to pleats is shine a bright light from inside.

 

Way back in the day, a simpler version was just an extended tube version, capped on the end with multiple holes attached to a standard blow gun...similar to THIS

 

Another similar type cleaner

 

 

Not a good idea forces dust thru filter and enlarges filter holes. By the way if using compressor don't place the nozzle next to filter but hold off some. This can also be done with the exhaust of a shop vac.

28 minutes ago, Gerald said:

Not a good idea forces dust thru filter and enlarges filter holes. By the way if using compressor don't place the nozzle next to filter but hold off some. This can also be done with the exhaust of a shop vac.

You're right. Good catch. Brain fade. I was thinking a traditional filter that is filtering from the outside, in like a shop vac or obviously an engine air filter. This application is reverse filtering from the inside. My error. Thanks Gerald.

 

Idea is still applicable for shop vac filters and is an approved cleaning method by most large engine manufacturers. 

RJ should take his filters and run his leaf blower, at idle speed or slightly above, through the center hole while using compressed air from the outside in.  The leaf blower will help exhaust the dust out the end.