After getting tired of cleaning the shop-vac filters I decided to build a mini-cyclone for it. The clear-vu version is $200USD plus shipping and it wouldn't fit my smaller vac.
I thought it would be a good practice to see if I want to build the large one for a dust collection.

I used the Bill Pentz design. It's scaled down by 1/3. Got a small sheet of metal and off I went. Here are all the pieces cut.

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Forgot to take pictures after each step. Here is the picture of cyclone finished with a layer of paint on it. It has an air ramp in the cylinder with 3" diam.

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I used 1/2" MDF to build the structures holding the motor and cyclone.
Here are the finished photo installed.

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(rest in the next post...)