I understand that the bin for a dust cyclone, conventionally set up, has to be air tight, or sealed. The dust in the cyclone goes round and round, round and round, and the heavier stuff drops into the bin, the air and tiny stuff goes out to the filter or out of doors.
I am currently renting a home and while I have a 2-car garage in which to set up shop, nothing can be permanent. I have a home brew Pentz ratio cyclone with a decidedly top heavy 5hp motor. I have noticed these tripod stands that Oneida sells that would not require me to tack this beast to the wall of the garage. But I had another idea.
What if the the cyclone with its +100 pound motor was fixed to a heavy plywood box with support posts on up to the motor/blower and could sit in the corner of the garage with no need to fix it to the wall. Well, only nominally use the wall as tipping support. I am thinking that if it was sealed it could have a bin inside it that had a foam collar that was snug to the inside top of the box but could be rolled in and out for emptying. Also, if the box was sealed, would there be the same tug on a plastic liner of the bin that fits inside the box as opposed to one that was directly coupled to the bottom of the cyclone?
I am not a visual person who can do thought experiments. I have to hold things and physically see how they go together. Projects are always works in progress that develop from mistake to mistake, rather opportunity to opportunity. But this structural box idea, sturdy enough to support a 5hp cyclone is not something I want to experiment with when this has already potentially caused several of you to regurgitate carbonated beverages back through you nose laughing at my inexperience.
What is the effect of a sealed box fitted with a removable bin inside of it? And, does this change the tug on a plastic liner? I am thinking that there is still a wind storm going on inside the bin but have not been able to think this through. There are no examples of this I could find doing a google search. I have the motor on a heavy steel mount but I really don't want my landlord to get worked up about what it would take to mount this to his nice sheet-rocked garage. He is already going to have to be sold on the surface mounted electrical sub-panel I need to install and get his blessings on. Ouch!