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I scavenged the head off my nice Rigid shop vac. This is set into the secondary box on top so that it can be offset away from the filter chamber. Otherwise the whole unit would have been like a foot longer.
Date: 01/02/2010
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It's kinda huge, but still less awkward than the hose-to-separator-to-hose-to-vac arrangement which which I had for a long time.
Date: 01/02/2010
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And it holds a full-size 32 gallon trash barrel! With my old arrangement, a clogged hose would cause the container to take the full suction of the vac.The small metal barrel I was using finally imploded under this influence. Lame. In this design, the cabi
Date: 01/02/2010
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I really wanted to be able to use a regular trash can with regualr trash bags/liners, so I can neatly dispose of the dust and shavings. If you have to dump out the can, you get exposed to everything you collected anyway - a little self-defeating. The piec
Date: 01/02/2010
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At the back is the filter cabinet.
Date: 01/02/2010
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It houses houses the filter (duh!). The pipe out of the cyclone terminates with the U-bend because this seemed like it would deliver the air evenly around the filter instead of favoring one side.
Date: 01/02/2010
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The Cleanstream filter sits on this little shelf.
Date: 01/02/2010
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The sealing lip of the filter fits in this properly sized hole, which opens into the box where the vacuum motor head is.
Date: 01/02/2010
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This fitted shim slides under the filter and wedges it upward to make it seal in the hole.
Date: 01/02/2010
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