First, hope all of you had a great Thanksgiving.   I have been looking for a used dust collector.  Have hit several estate sales and garage sales that looked hopeful, so far found one, way to big for my small shop and turned out it was already sold.  Our town has this Facebook sight that is for free, just come and get it, kicker being you cannot resale.  So, Monday I am checking the sight out and low and behold, a free dust collector, looks like right size.  Got to his house and its a general machinery (harbor freight) 2 hp collector, canvas filter but came with 55 gal drum.  Got it home, cleaned up a little and it works......Fun comes in fitting into the shop.  If I keep the a drum in the loop I will down size to 15 gal and add filter to exhaust.  Just had to share. 

Oki, one heck of a find, way to go! Free is always good specially when it works! Congrats and great to see ya around here

Great score Don. Free is my kind of price too. Not sure of the drum size by the Pic (55gal? maybe) but if you've got the room, I'd recommend only downsizing to perhaps a 30gal. Doing so will let you run longer between dumps. Something to consider anyway.

I have one of these- Delta Dust Collector Model 50-850. Bought it used.

 

e7994843-c669-427d-8ed0-2c35318f814f_Dust collector Portable -Delta Model 50-850 user manual.pdf

 

I added a Thein separator similar to this-

https://www.jpthien.com/smf/index.php?topic=1428.0

I used the cyclone lid from Woodcraft-

https://www.woodcraft.com/products/woodriver-dust-connection-trash-can-cyclone-lid-for-dust-collection?srsltid=AfmBOopsiJjVGfoOpxoRcRGOgu9LzcU5EHlBgfwxNdmFh1tgcbxIsZe5

And a metal trashcan-

 

 

 

 

 

The replacement Dela plastic bag are available from Amazon and might fit your unit. I haven't emptied the plastic bag in about a year. The only thing that ends up in the plastic is sanding dust, everything else get trapped in the trash can.

 

 

I have changed so much in my dust collection it would take a lot of space to tell it. Mine is a Grizzly and it is over 25 years in service. Usually have it on all the time I am in the shop and just open and close gates. First I had a home made box and finally still keeping that box in place I added a Dust Deputy with 5 inch

 

pipe up to the DC in attic.This saves a lot of climbing into the attic to empty bags. That 5 inch hose alone increased suction considerably.

 

                                                                                                                                                                        This is the Box with lots of pipe as this is a central unit.

My shop is pretty small, so I'm trying to get as much off the floor as possible.  The DC started life as the HF model, modified with an Oneida separator and a Wynn filter.  It's patterned after one seen here on TPW, but I don't recall the original designer.

 

 

 

Great score, nothing beats free. My shop is relatively small as well. I found a used HF dust collector and decided to put it outside. So glad I did, it saves so much space inside and is very quiet. 
 

2 hours ago, JimM said:

My shop is pretty small, so I'm trying to get as much off the floor as possible.  The DC started life as the HF model, modified with an Oneida separator and a Wynn filter.  It's patterned after one seen here on TPW, but I don't recall the original designer.

 

 

Here is the original post.  Small foot print, mobile, 115 volt, great filtration.

Danl

 

 

Edited December 4, 20241 yr by Danl

I have the same one from HF. I haven't been able to get it out up yet but I made the impeller upgrade which is supposed to make it more "sucky". Lol I plan on trying to get it going within the next few months. As if the present I'm using a shop vac with a dust deputy on a 5 gallon bucket and just move it to which ever machine I need to use. There's several videos on YouTube on how to juice up this collector for better efficiency.

Thanks for the reply's and idea's.  My main concern about installing under house is how much dust is going to escape thru the cloth filter.  My previous experience with dust collectors has been in manufacturing and there is always a little dust residue around the cloth bags.  My Heat and air unit is under the house in what is referred to as crawl space, but mine is actually walk space and it is encapsulated.  I actually use for storage and winter archery range.   I also noticed that some of you have a black cone attached above the collection container?  Any info on that would be appreciated.

Edited December 25, 20241 yr by Lost Oki

If you’re asking about this, it’s the Oneida dust deputy. It’s a separator for collecting the larger chips.

 

 

Attaching a separator is what makes the system a 2-stage system.  When using the separator and a good filter, you will have very little fine-dust escape.  The filter which comes with the Harbor Height systems allow a large amount of dust to escape.  Danl