How I Made A Dust Cyclone for Under $2
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- Опубліковано 30 лип 2024
- There are PLENTY of awesome cyclone builds on youtube. Some I really like. But who has time cutting out circles and drilling a bunch of holes for screws? You can make this cyclone for $1.50 if you're smart with how you obtain the materials!!
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This saved me a huge headache. I've almost bought a dust collection system 1000x. Glad I found the video. Worked perfect!
I love that this design is so much simpler than others I've seen. No wood blocks cut out in the middle, no bs worrying about coupling random vacuum pieces, just straight up pvc glued in. From what I understand, I'll probably put the top piece centered on the lid for slightly better suction.
The other guys at least read about it before building. There is a reason for all that extra steps.
that was a good tip about drilling on a curved surface. Very thoughtful and considerate of you to mention that. good to see caring people out there.
Built one very similar to this about 10 years ago,used 2 " pvc fittings,installed in the lid, same style fittinds,just measure 2". it has worked great ! Glad you showed this to everyone .
Dude this really worked? On it tomorrow
@@robertjacques6468 Works well, but I have a small piece of chain screwed to the side of mine drapes down and lays on the floor, this will stop you getting any nasty static shocks that you really don't want....ask me how I know 😩😟🥺..ha ha ...happy building.
Made it. Works great. One tip: it doesn't work if the bucket falls over, so you might want to put a base on it to prevent it from tipping. You should also try to get the most flexible hose you can. A stiff hose makes it more likely to tip over.
I have put this on my bucket list
Hahahaha good one.
My God you're really pushing the boat out!, my list is slightly more ambitious ...Although I agree with your logic, and will do one myself...😜👍
That's the first thing on my bucket list....Getting a Bucket
LOL
BWAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
This sucks ...
just built 2 of them this weekend...super easy...very effective...thank you for posting this video....
Worked like a charm. My first run wasn't so hot so I applied bathroom sticky tape around the inside of the lid to get a better vacuum and it made all the difference in the world. Hardly any sawdust got by the super "Mark Susak" cyclone. Thanks Mark.
Thanks Mark! This is an awesome solution to dust collection. I did as another guy did and angled my pvc fitting in the lid slightly downward and sealed the lid for a better vacuum. If you want to get a little fancier for about a dollar or two more, cut a small slit about an inch wide and 3 or 4 inches long towards the top of the bucket and hot glue a piece of plexiglass it in from the inside. Now you have a sight glass to know when your bucket is filling up. Thanks again Mark!
Thx for taking the time to share this. The magic is the 45 deg pipe for the inlet. That was quite clever. What a time saver. Adding the second 45 and centering the outlet is the final ticket. Hmm adding that additional 45 is going to jack the price up another 75c.
Thx again.
reminds me of the drywall dust collector I came up with. but I called it the "Bong", because I used water (wet dirt don't fly), and both holes were on the lid with one tube barely going into the lid (going to Shop Vac), and the other tube just into the water. (hence the term "Bong", Hookah if you like LOL). It was a bit messy, but my Shop Vac was not eaten alive by all the drywall dust.
Mark, thank you for this! The only question/feedback I had was giving advice on the measurements. I had to run around the big-box store until I found someone who knew how to handle PVC pipes (since I had no idea.)
For those wondering about numbers:
If the hose opening of your shopvac measures 1 inch, you should look for a 1 and a quarter inch PVC pipe to connect with and insert into the bucket.
Thanks again and have a great day.
Finally, someone that weighed their dust sample!
And what does it tell you?
@@PatchworxStudios Tells you how much dust is actually making it into the vacuum.
@@JoeBlow-24 But it doesnt doesn't tell you how much micro particles came through and those are the dangerous ones. To sort out the big junk is not a problem. Actually bought and made me the same system and I can tell you you still need a bag a filter and an air cleaner for the Dangerous dust. Most of the reviews on UA-cam are lacking Proper testing.
@@PatchworxStudios who's to say there isn't a hepa filter on the vacuum? It seems to me the focus of this test is to separate as much bulk as possible. In that regard this cheap solution was a success.
@@JoeBlow-24 There was a statement about clogging up the filter slower but still it's the fine dust that will clog it. I am not against the idea for I am using it myself. What i wanted to say is that it somewhat useless to weight the dust because it is not representative for the efficiency of a cyclone. Even a poorly made one has a very high efficiency if you measure it like this. By the way those Bucket builds are just not even close to a proper cyclone cause of the geometry of said bucket.
made this in the exact same way yesterday. watched a fair few of these videos and so many are seriously over engineered... this one is super simple and it works. Thanks for sharing Mark Susak.EDIT... I did slightly angle the side insert downwards in the bucket a couple of degrees in the hope it would keep a little bit more debri away from the top vacuum insert.
I'd use a 90 degree fitting on the inlet and extend it down to around two inches off the bottom of the bucket. Then add four to six inches of water to the bucket. You'll get exhaust from the bucket that has no dust in it whatsoever. Clean ups a little more trouble but you won't be spreading dust around the shop. You can cut out the bucket by simply converting the shop vac in this way and you end up with the equivalent of a three hundred dollar factory model rainbow vacuum.
I knew there had to be a less expensive and technical way to do that. Thanks.
finally a straight forward build with good enough results. I'm definitely going to build one or more of these.
Hi Mark, I made mine from an old drywall bucket (free) and used old (also free) swimming pool fittings and hose. I did however put both the inlet and outlet thru the top which makes it MUCH more convenient to empty the bucket. I also added a coffee can with a hole in the bottom, upside down, inside the bucket, around the connection to the vacuum, which was centered in the top. This increased the cyclone swirl effect and kept the dust from 'shortcutting' it's way to the vacuum. It works GREAT and it cost ZERO.
Yea, you have to empty it when it gets 3 - 5" full but it's very easy to do and greatly saves having to service the shop vac.
Thanks for the idea.
I agree running both through the top for ease of emptying. I think I will try the same thing only add a 4 or 5 inch straight piece to the 45 for the intake so its down in the bucket a few inches. I can't wait to try this.
Love this solution, especially the coffee can idea. One of the larger ones would work best, I imagine. Cheers!
Installed this on my blasting cabinet. It works absolutely GREAT! 👌🏽 Great and very cheap solution.
I had all the items for this build in my workshop. The bucket was 1 that was used for wine making in the past now has a new lease of life. I did use a 90 degree fitting for the inlet instead of 45 degree fit, it work just as well My home made cyclone was a bargain. Thanks for making this video
This works INCREDIBLY well. My local hardware stores didn't have the correct size PVC so I had to improvise. I used 2 dust control flex cuffs with hose clamps. I inserted the PVC pipe and tightened for an air-tight seal then hot glued all the seams. I was shocked to see how well it worked. You're awesome!
Thank you for posting this easy, cheap but very effective project. Just made my own,works great! I’ve found that 6 mm chisel works great for making the holes
Excellent tutorial and the part about the cyclone effect on the bucket: first time I saw that being explained so simple manner and easy to understand! Thanks mate!
This simple, yet cost effective addition to my occasional use hobby work shop, might be a little less efficient than other versions but it is easy to make and more importantly cheap. THANK YOU!
I like your delivery, very awesome. It was quick and you kept my attention --- also using the scale and giving us the percentage efficiency was perfect .
I will definitely build one of these for my shop this weekend. Thanks for the tutorial! I may sandwich the lid with some scrap plywood and cut both holes from the top rather than one on the side. I can use a small piece of pvc to direct the dust further down and along the edge of the bucket and away from the exhaust pipe, and keep the exhaust pipe short within the bucket and at the center.
People who are needing something like this, likely have more than a drill.
Im sorry but I just came across this video looking for something else and ended up watching it all the way through...maybe a stupid question but what is the purpose of this contraption? If he has a vacuum already what is the use for making this bucket figamajig?
@@befree4052 Dust collection/control.
@@jed-henrywitkowski6470 I see ty
@@befree4052 its mainly to give your dust vac filter a much longer life and better efficiency as the dust will clog it up in no time
@@robstokes5179 thank you rob
I like your design.
Simple, straightforward, and inexpensive to build.
Well done!
Pick me up on your way down
Like that, much simpler than others.
Thanks Mark! I was just going to search this up to build and your video showed up on my subscription list. Almost spooky, nice and simple but does what it is intended to do. Thanks, Bill
+Yellowdog Welding awesome! Glad you like it Bill!
Got one of these in the pipeline (!) as a mate has a bucket for me (free) I've scrounged two old vacuum cleaner pipes (so free as well) when I took some crap to the local tip, and I have some bits of pipe lying around in my shed. Thanks to you I shall have an impressively good system for nothing! So... thankyou very much!!
This is just what I was looking for, thanks for sharing Mark
Thank very much young fellow your a good lad. Not many like you that seem to care anymore. God bless you from an old bloke.
Earl Wallace
Mark- I followed your directions and the dust collection system works perfectly. Thank you.
Excellent proof of concept, weighing the dust before & after. Very convincing. Thanks!
You're a genius! Thank you, doing this tomorrow!
I have buckets just lying around in the garage, this is awesome! Thanks for sharing
Thanks, I made this one yesterday and it worked great! Just need to put the bucket in a stand of some kind to stop it falling over in use.
I tried with a similar bucket, works a treat. Just don't block the air-flow or the bucket collapses with a bang that will scare the wits out of you.
nlo114 guessing you found that out the hard way? 😂
Yep. Just having a second slurp at a pile of sawdust when it clogged. BRRAPP! it goes. Cut a disc of 9 mm ply to fit the drum half way down. Now it goes 'plop' , but the dust still by-passes from in to out.
Hahaha! Love the sound effects. Seemed so real.
Nia Jax goes BRAPP sometimes, too
Did you post it on UA-cam
Thank You much for sharing your time and ideas.
Mate....I built it...after watching a tonne of cyclone vacuum dust collection garbage.....THIS IS THE BEST SOLUTION.! cheap, nasty and works really well, so well it sucked a piece of melamine that stuck in the hose and cracked the plastic bucket.!!!! nothing a bit of gaffa tape didn't fix.! Mark - awesome aussie ingenuity ......
I'm inspired! gonna hit bunnings tomorrow cheers man!
Awesome. I love how direct you are about the construction, as well. If they're too dumb to grasp this idea, they're too dumb to use power tools unsupervised.
Great idea, I've got an old brewing bin that would be perfect for this 🖒
Makes great sense. Amazingly not over engineered (thought). Not everyone can think like this. Congratulations and thanks!!
In order to increase efficiency you want to make the inlet (exactly) tangential to the edge of the container. The sawdust namely falls down based on friction, and the tangentiality causes for a soft catch rather than a bounce against the wall; slowing down the dust more.
You should almost just use a straight pipe and insert it into the bucket at a tangent. That'd make the cutting a bit more difficult... I think I'll try that!
@@Kenjaiz if you could cut the pipe on an angle and cut the hole as an ellipse to match, it would work better. i think doing this for as cheap as possible, most people probably dont have the skill or tools to do that kind of stuff cleanly. i definitely dont , thats why im looking at DIY cyclones :P
Inspirational. I'm so glad i saw this before i built the Thien Baffle. I may still do that, but i want to give this a shot, though i will use 2" PVC. thanks.
Another great bucket source is any swimming pool owner the does the maintenance themselves. I've got a stack 8' high of very sturdy chlorine bucks with locking lids. I am always happy to off load some.
Well done, and thank you for a simple version. 97% is excellent when you consider that the over-enginered versions with fancy baffles and connectors that take hours to build are only slightly more effective
having watched many others, yours is the best so far. Thank you for making it look so damn easy
I like it and will be building one as soon as I get to the shop.
Just made mine based off this video and it works great! I've watched a whole bunch of DIY videos and some of them get pretty complex. This was dirt cheap and super easy so I decided to just do that and it works great! I think I spent less than $10 not including the shop vac.
Thanks for this vid! It's short and right to the point ... and smart!
Definite thumbs up for the cheapest, simplest design. I saw some other video showing the efficiency of this type of design and while it is good when it is empty, it decreases dramatically when it is at 25% and obviously even more at 50% full. So with the cheapness also comes more work of frequent emptying to maintain decent efficiency.
Freekin awesome dude!! I'm making one this weekend. Thank you for pushing me in the price reasonable direction :)
Bloody easy. Have been looking for a lazy way to clean my driveway of dust and leaves. This would work perfect - THANK YOU.
You just saved me $100. Thanks Mark, champion effort!
Awesome! I am going to make one tomorrow, thank you so much!
Nice Work Mark, Well Done and keep up the Great Videos.
TC, Barry (ENG)
Followed your step by step instructions, got a Nice Cyclone out of it!! Thanks
Thanks so much for this! I live in an apartment so I don't have a shop and I do most of my woodworking out on the balcony when it's not freezing nor raining. The limited space means I don't have room for a shopvac, but I'm slowly ruining my normal household vacuum every time I collect sawdust. This intermediary will undoubtedly extend the life of my normal vacuum and when not in use I can use the bucket as storage for the hoses and other tools. Really an ideal DIY, thank you for sharing!
Thanks Nathalie and I hope it works great!
Maybe one of those small wall-mounted Shopvacs would work for you?
This is smart, cheep, easy to build and most importantly, it works.
I know because I have build the same exact contraption and have been using it for the past four years. Today I was looking in UA-cam for a way to improve it but seeing this video has changed my mind.
Simple is best! All you really need is that 45 degree fitting on the side of the bucket to make the cyclone effect.
Good going Mark!
I like the way you think!
Thanks for the kind words!
Hi If I am trying this does the pvc have to be the same size as my vacuum hose fitting ? thoughts please thank you
Excellent video. Straight-to-the-point. Look forward to seeing more of your videos
Brilliant. Just what I was looking for. Thank you!
Dear Mark, thats what I'm talking about! Cheap and it works and its not too high. Wow I'm going to do it, THANKS
Thanks for the video. I just went from no dust collector to a cyclone in less than 15 minutes
ace job and very instructive wee vid. thanks for sharing.
Assuming that it does work as demonstrated (and there is no reason not to believe that it does) this it the BEST (= easiest to make, cheapest, efficient) dust collection system I have EVER seen, period! Surely by experimenting with the IN/OUT tube diameter, length and placement as well as the overall height of the bucket plus the power of the vacuum, you can increase efficiency to be close to 99% which is what the professionally made models claim but at a much heftier price. But even at ~96% I'm happy, so I am definitely sold, and thank you so much (a thousand times), I am making one for sure! Mark you da man !!!
An Aussie accent that sounds like you live just up the track, a bucket of briliance and proper sawdust. Works exactly the same as the homemade paint bucket pond filter the pobblebonks are raving about out the front. Beaut!
Great job!! Thanks for taking time to share this great idea!!
Heat the bucket up with a heat gun if you have one, and use a hole smaller than the fitting. Also, if you have an extra crevice nozzle around, you can make a rectangular hole instead of a round one. Also, hook blades for utility knives make cutting buckets quite easy!
Thank you! Simple, smart, direct to the point. Great video!
i knew something like this could be cheap and easy, thank you for demonstrating it!
Excellent build and idea. Thank you for sharing
Yesterday I watch your video, today I went to buy the elbows, got a bucket and put it together in 20 minutes. It works like a charm.
Hope you read this and known that you make some dude in Argentina extremely happy.
Thanks Julian! Happy woodworking :)
Very simple improvement.. Yes, center the top hose, and also, if you add a second 45* angle to the inside intake(where sawdust goes in) to keep the debris closer to the curve of the bucket, your efficiency goes up.. I tried to figure out the angle to include here, but I grew a tail and ran in circles like a neurotic dog. You want it close to parallel, a hair pointed downwards. When I tried to make a larger one using a steel garbage can, I found a thin piece of plastic(like a tub surround) inside the can helped immensely, the particles kept up their speed like they are supposed to, slowing down as they got closer to the bottom. This "airstream" keeps even fine particles out of the shopvac or larger filtration system.. Last but not least, for that extra mile, a bucket about 2-4 inches high half filled with water kept everything out. A 5lb bag of flour and I got zero particles when I tapped my shopvac filter on dark brown paper. Change the water often, sludge doesn't work, and you don't want mold, so clean it daily.
P Huster thank you. May need diagram.
Why not just make 2 of these buckets and put them in line?? Seems way easier.
I tried this. I used the flour and water like you suggested but I must be doing something wrong. When I opened it up later, there was a fully cooked fresh pizza in there.
Instead of a 45 why not use a 90 to push the incoming air against the side more?
to put it simply its called 'flow dynamics" its why you want a bending of the current (be it water or air) and not a wall it slams into and then has to turn...
looked at a lot of videos and this is definitely what i am using for my indoor vac system with a 16 gallon shop vac! thanks!
Glad I could have helped!
I like the fact that you weighed the results. Pretty impressive.
Been watching a few different methods and yours seem to be so much simpler and direct. Gonna be trying this method tomorrow and post afterwards
TOP, for sure I will make one of these.
I just finished working on my dust collector. And work great!
Saw this video a while back and finally made one it works great.
Try one of the green 45 degree connectors you find in the electrical section. They provide a longer and smoother transition to the inner curve of the bucket. I'd put a schedule 40 sharp 90 degree bend through the bucket and then attach the green 45 degree connector to that on the inside. I'd also cut the bottom out of one bucket, stack it on top of another, and glue and/or duct tape them together. Thanks for the great concept to avoid a hefty cyclone tax.
I made one of these. It works brilliantly thank you, and so much easier than cutting and attaching baffles.
Excellent, so simple and cheap yet so effective!
That is great - thanks you for the idea
Thanks you to!
This is a good start to many adaptations. My vac has a lot of bypass so I'm making two chambers. First is dry cyclonic whose outlet goes to a second wet chamber for water immersion cleanup, then into the shopvac .
Can you show how to go to the wet chamber? Thanks
Im about to buy a table saw and have been looking at dust collection. This is just the job, even if buying a bucket and hose new, it's still a better deal. Thanks for posting this video, has saved me some £££.
Thanks Mark. I have several buckets left over from winter ice spray. I am making presents for all my woodworking mates.
AWESOME video man! Thanks for the Great info, I can't wait to make one four myself!
Great and simple idea! Thanks for sharing
Im so glad I came across this video. I am trying this out right now and THANK YOU. WILL LET U KMOW HOW IT GOES..
How did it go?
Nice design, and about as simple as it can get. One suggestion - given the choice between hot glue and silicone, I would use silicone. If your shop is as damp as mine sometimes gets, the hot glue may loosen over time. Even simpler and neater, if you don't mind spending an extra few bucks on the project, is to use Uniseals for the penetrations. These are rubber grommets made especially for penetrating buckets and barrels with PVC pipe. They work without any other sealant, and the pipe is easily removed if need be. They come in different sizes and cost a couple of bucks apiece for the size you need in this project.
Ha I've also got a bucket dust separator!
I've chopped up a traffic cone and siliconed it on top to give the classic cyclone separator effect
After 3 months on a cnc router the bucket is half full and no observable evidence in the vacuum itself
Agree they work well!
Top job... I've been thinking about making one of these but didn't realise how easy it can be, thanks mate I will making one of these asap 😀
Great video. Very simple and straight forward. Well done.
You beaut! Fantastic DIY. Thx mate
I made one and paired it with an upright vacuum. Works great, and I even had dinner with the leftover cash I was going to use to purchase something new. :)
EXCELLENT - cheap and easy THANK YOU
Absolute genius. Saved me from clicking that buy button on Glamazon and spending $70+ for something with not-so-good reviews. You're my hero! I love making stuff that saves me money anyways, so thanks again.
Wow! Great video, your build fits my cheapskate budget perfectly.