Dust Eliminator is INSTALLED !!!! PICS
I am so-o-o-o-o excited..!!!!! Terry came down late Friday afternoon / early evening and we began installing the ducting and had almost every bit of it done in about 5 hours. We spent the day Saturday (today) finishing up the ducting, installing the blast gates and finalizing the layout of just where everything was gonna be.
Here are some of the pics from the last day and a half. All in all, if two people are working on the installation and ducting....about 12 hours work.<BR>
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Here is the start of the ducting run with a drop to where the lathe will sit and a drop to go over to my Robland X31.<BR><BR>
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This is a shot of the ducting crossing from on bay of the shop to the next bay to reach my CMS. You can see where we had to make the turn to cross the shop (30 feet) to reach my Jet TS, Laguna LT16 and the Performax.<BR><BR>
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Here is a shot of the ducting crossing over the entire width of the shop to make the drop to the machines listed above.<BR><BR>
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Here is the FarrAPC filter that I was fortunate to get before those goobers decided that they didn't like selling them one at a time. Geesh!!!! One would think that they way the economy is now, they would LIKE the increase in product sales.<BR><BR>
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Here is a shot of preping the blast gates for installation into the ducting. I made my blaste gates according to Terry's plans and I sealed the wood with two coats of shellac.<BR><BR>
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Here is a pic of the uninstalled blast gate TREE that will be where the BS, TS and Performax will get their dust collection from. Once completed, this sucker was "heavy"!!<BR><BR>
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Here is the Dust Eliminator installed and ready for testing. Ain't she purddy?!!!!
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Here is the blast gate "tree" installed into the duct system. I think it looks really nice and all gates are within easy reacy and out of the way.<BR><BR>
<B>So how did it all come out?</B>
Well Terry brought his test equipment with him to check out the installed system since there was a LOT of duct work, Y's, 45's, 22.5's and such in my design. Without sealing ANYTHING at all, we tested almost 1,400 CFM and 7,100 FPM and all at 19.8 AMPS!
We tested the longest run, which was to my Jet TS on the other side of the shop and we got 1,058 CFM "at" the TS. Just for giggles we put a 6" to 4" reducer right at the TS and tested again. Guess what......dropping from a 6" to a 4" reduced the CFM to around 650 CFM at the TS.....We lost about 400 CFM by reducing the ducting at the machine from 6" to 4". I'm hooking her up on a 6" adapter!!!!! Oh...and by the way...we tested the system with one of these:<BR>
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Well, that's it for now........Once I have the system sealed up, and everything hooked up, we will test the effeciency once again and will post the numbers of what it will do with proper sealing.
Thanks for taking a look at my progress and THANKS to Terry for his assistance of the installation and for making it an affordable and important part of making the shop easier to keep clean and making the air better to breathe.
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