Hi all,

After many more months than I care to publicly admit, I put the final touches on my dust collector set up yesterday. I'm running a 3HP blower with SDD XL and venting directly outside with no filter.

It sucks...hard. I'm pleased. But as I was testing it out yesterday, I sucked up a long strip of the paper backing from the foil tape (essentially, a long strip of wax paper), and it got caught right in the blades of the impeller. It was not a pleasant sound. My assumption is that the paper was too light to fall into the Dust Deputy.

So I've been thinking – Do I need some sort of a screen that sites between the SDD and the blower to protect the fan blades?

Thanks all.