Harbor Freight Dust Collector Mod w/ Super Dust Deputy XL - Updated

[Music] hey I'm Burt from gray house studio and in this video I'm going to show you how I made this dust collector using the super dust deputy XL I reached out to Oneida Air to ask him some questions about the six inch Inlet and outlet on their XL model and they were kind enough to send me this cyclone to test out I'm also going to incorporate the dust century which is just a fancy word for Oneida as sensor to tell you when the barrel is full so that way it won't clog up and I'm not realizing it breathing a ton of dust so I'll show you how I made this I started my desk collector build with a stock Harbor Freight dust collector out of the box it pulls about 33 meters per second of air through the 5 inch port I want the inlet of the blower to be 6 inches to support this I need to upgrade the impeller so I remove the stock impeller with a puller tool then I replace it with the 12 inch impeller you'll notice the blades are shaped a little differently on the larger impeller and that design actually provides a more consistent performance after using a mallet to drive the impeller onto the shaft and reattaching the cover I took another reading and was happy to see that the increase from 33 m/s to 40 m/s to widen the inlet of the blower I used a six inch air duct collar and cut a hole with a sheet metal blade on a jig saw the collar comes with an adhesive foam tape so I remove the tape and stuck it to the metal cover but the collar attached and made it easy to drill up the mounting holes and secure the inlet collar with rivets I use rivets because the clearance between the case and the impeller is too tight four screws with the blower modified I made a wall mount out of two by fours the mount was a really simple design with a rectangle support extending from the wall that surrounds the intake to mount the base of the wall I attached a 2x4 to the wall studs with 3-inch decking screws then using the same type of screws I attach the rectangular brace to the 2x4 secured to the wall to help support the weight of the blower I added a second horizontal lower brace on the wall and connected it to the top race with a diagonal brace to test it out I did a couple of pull ups before hanging the blower it allowed me to connect a large cylinder filter to the outlet I added a square of plywood to a duct transition and then mounted it to the blower with half-inch screws before mounting the filter I needed to open up the bottom so I cut a 6-inch hole with a jigsaw then cut a mounting plate out of sheet metal with a jig saw to allow me to mount the 6-inch collar to the filter with liquid nails and half-inch screws the filter was held in place to the wall with a simple two-by-four bracket that it also attached the wall studs with screws then I attached the filter to the bracket through the top with screws after the bloom filter was hung it was time to prep the cyclone I traced the whole location is in cyclone basic outline on the top of 55-gallon barrel lid then I used to call her to trace the six-inch hole indicating where to cut the hole in the lid for the cyclone I drilled two holes to allow me to insert the jigsaw blade and then cut out the six-inch hole with the jigsaw then I drilled out all the mounting holes the cyclone actually came with bolts and a gasket but I misplaced it I used some construction adhesive and large rivets to hold it to the lid and it worked great the cyclone was then secured to the blower with half-inch screws and the last thing I added to the dust collector was a bag to collect any particles that made it through the filter I did this by adding a latch to the bottom of the filter cylinder and then cut out kind of a doughnut of plywood that let me put the bag through the center and then I used the latch to temporarily clamp the doughnut to the filter allowing me to remove the bag and put a new bag in after I clean it out to ensure that everything was airtight a metal duct tape on all the joints to install the dust sentry sensor I drilled a pilot hole in the lid and then widened it to three-quarters of an inch to allow the sensor to insert through the top and then it screws secure from below I screwed the light into the 2x4 bracket on the front of the dust collector using the mounting holes that are in the size of the dust century to calibrate the sensor there's a tiny potentiometer in the top of the sensor that you can twist with a flathead screwdriver to adjust the distance that the sensor trips I haven't had a chance to hook up the permanent six-inch ducting that will connect the dust collector to the table saw miter saw so to test the CFM I'm getting at the end I went ahead and hooked up a three-foot section of duct and a six inch flex hose is 10 feet long so I'll test the CFM to see what I'm getting and this is a somewhat real scenario that will give me a better number than just testing at the inlet of the cyclone using a meter I was able to see that the air is moving nineteen point five meters per second through the six inch flex hose and I used two online calculator to convert the meters per second to CFM and got 753 CFM thankfully in a comment it was pointed out that the duct radius is half of the duct diameter so the calculator wants the radius not the diameter that's why it says three and not six inches which is what I've been calling the duct if you enjoyed seeing how I made this dust collector be sure to click the like button below and subscribe to our gray house studio youtube channel leave us any questions in the comment section below and for additional details on this project check out our blog studio gray house comm

Channel: Gray House Studio

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Id: 8v5079FPCsY

Length: 5min 45sec (345 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 26 2017