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mini 1
Update: 6-19-11 rebuilt vac and added second motor, installed all the ductwork.This is rev. A of my billpentz.com mini 6 in. cyclone with the full length cone....
Date: 04/19/2011
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mini 2
The dust bin is made from a 20 gal. steel barrel that I cut about 15 in. off of the bottom and used a piece of treated plywood for a new bottom with some furniture glides...
Date: 04/19/2011
Views: 114
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mini 3
The lid is made from MDF and this is after I reworked it to fit the barrel. The gray seal around the edge was used for a 20 gal. Behrens trash can and the black seal is a big oring from the barrel lid....
Date: 03/21/2008
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mini 4
I use a ‘Lawson Easy Bagger’, a vinyl sheet that unrolls in the bag, from Ace Hardware to hold a trash bag open and used some binder clips to hold the bag in place....
Date: 03/29/2008
Views: 110
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mini 5
This is my original vac with one motor. It worked real well with about 20ft of hose but after running about 30ft of 2in. central vac pipe and a 2.5in. shop vac hose, I wasn’t getting the air flow that I wanted...
Date: 03/23/2008
Views: 114
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mini 6
I cut the cyclone pieces from 24g galvanized steel sheet and a couple inches past the end marks which makes it easier to hand roll and then trim them to size after forming...
Date: 02/12/2008
Views: 129
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mini 7
This is my sheet metal roller setup; primitive but it works. I started with a 4 in. pipe and work down to a 1 ½ in. pipe to form the 3 in. and 2 ½ in. diameter parts....
Date: 02/23/2008
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mini 8
Cyclone parts formed and ready to assemble. I soldered everything together using a hand held propane torch and a small butane torch with Duzall acid flux and 50/50 solder.
Date: 02/18/2008
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mini 9
I couldn’t get the 24g air ramp, the spiral piece around the inside, to fit correctly and made another one from 28g which was easier to work with....
Date: 02/23/2008
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mini 10
The completed cyclone. The inlet is for a 2 ½ in. flex hose that will connect the 2.5 in. class 200 pvc pipe. The parts on the table in the back ground are for the filter area of my original one motor design
Date: 03/09/2008
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mini 11
The top and bottom plates for the motor mount and filter area are cut from ¾ in. oak plywood; I wanted more strength than the MDF.
Date: 12/04/2008
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mini 12
Parts for the final assembly of the motor and filter section. I installed some angles between the top and bottom to support the 26g galvanized sheet metal flat plate sides...
Date: 12/05/2008
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mini 13
The completed motor and filter area. The filters are typical shop vac filters and the open end fits over the motor blower and the top has a removable plug....
Date: 01/15/2011
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mini 14
One motor installed. I ran a ground to each of the mounts to ground the motor covers.
Date: 01/22/2011
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mini 15
To make the motor covers, I rolled the sheet metal using the pvc pipe and used the two templates to support it for assembly.
Date: 01/16/2011
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mini 16
This is the motor cover; one assembled and one in parts. I installed the top and then cut the hole that is marked with the X...
Date: 04/19/2011
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mini 17
Holding the cover together to get some rivets in it.
Date: 01/18/2011
Views: 90
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mini 18
This shows the piece that fits around the top of the motor and the machine screws that also hold the filter piece on top. I used the screws because there wasn’t enough space for my rivet gun.
Date: 01/19/2011
Views: 107
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mini 19
Completed cover and installed.
Date: 01/22/2011
Views: 91
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mini 20
Vac is finished and ready for some action.
Date: 01/22/2011
Views: 101
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mini 21
This is a test setup with 20 ft of 2.5 in. class 200 pipe, 2 sch40 45’s, and an adapter for a 2.5 in. shop vac hose, obscured by the radial arm saw lever...
Date: 01/15/2011
Views: 137
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mini 22
I have a Dwyer Magnehelic 0 to 5 in. gage with a 166 pitot tube to get my air flow data. The pitot tube pipe mount was made for the 6in. pipe...
Date: 01/15/2011
Views: 98
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mini 23
I used 2.5 in. class 200 ASTM D2241 pvc pipe for the ducts. I sanded a bevel on the end of each pipe to keep debris from getting caught on the edges....
Date: 03/12/2011
Views: 86
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min 24
I made the shop vac hose connectors using a 2.5 in. hose coupling that I glued into a section of the class 200 pipe....
Date: 02/07/2011
Views: 91
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