I talked to someone who uses a standard 2 Hp dust collector for his drum sander to avoid having to clean the big, hard to access filters in his 5 Hp cyclone. I'm in the same situation, now running spiral duct to a couple final locations which got me thinking... Should I keep my 2 Hp dust collector for the Woodmaster sander? It seems like he had a reasonable argument, since there's always a vacuum in the barrel under the cyclone, so maybe all the fine dust will go straight to the 5 Hp filter instead of the barrel.
Does anybody have any experience with this topic?
Thanks,
Mike