Replace dust bin
August th.

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The white bucket (on the floor in back) is the collection bin for the shop vacuum system. It works with an Oneida Dust Devil Cyclonic separator, which keeps 99% of the dust out of the vacuum. It really does work, in that after 10 months there was not even a litre of dust/chips that made it into the vacuum it's self. BUT the white bucket had to be empted several times.
The saw dust/wood chips can go with the yard waste, but getting them to the front yard without using a plastic bag was/is tricky.

(01:09:2020)

The plan was to rebuild the bin, with something that would hold enough to make emptying it worth the work involved, and such that the whole bin can go to the curb for pickup.
On a recent trip to Canadian Tire I found the perfect can to use.
Sorry but I don't have just a picture of the can alone, but here it is ready for installation.

(02:09:2020)

Too make the lid, I had to cut a grove such that it would fit down over the top lip of the bin to seal it.
Of course every job has a new tool (just ask Sheila).
Not knowing what to call the brown thing attached to the router, I couldn't find one at Home Depot, but they said there would be one in Nanaimo if I wanted to go for a drive or I could order it on line!
Drive didn't interest me so I made my own! Still don't know what it's called!.

(02:09:2020)
It sure works! Makes nice even circles in the wood, and with three passes the grove was deep and wide enough to do the job!

(02:09:2020)
This is what the bottom side of the lid looks like with the Dust Deputy and weather seal attached ready for testing.

(02:09:2020)

This is what it looks like installed.

Now this is where the whole thing goes to pot!
It Fails
The sides of the bin are too soft to withstand the vacuum created by the older, and way over powered, shop vac! As they collapse it distorts the top rim and breaks the seal to the lid. No suction left to go into the collector network.

(02:09:2020)
In case you wondering why this system.
The shop is in the basement of the house, next to the Weaving Studio where dust is not appreciated. There is a sliding glass door between the rooms, but it is amazing how often it is left open.
Besides any dust that doesn't end up on the floor doesn't have to be manually vacuumed up!
The system has three hoses attached to do floors, the table saw, the band saw, the bench stand drill, the mitre saw, a bench belt sander, a oscillating spindle sander. All of which are attached via their own blast gates.
Any one of the tools turns on the vacuum when it is turned on.
(Do I wish I could afford to automate the blast gates so they opened as their tool turned on.)

The stack of blast gates at the table saw.

(03:09:2020)

The main of the floor hoses which will cover most of the shop area and the area outside the shop door. This one has it own "other" style separator because it gets most of the stuff off the floor that can't go into the yard waste bin. Anything light enough to get past here is ok for recycle. And yes this sort of separator does leak light stuff across the network.

(03:09:2020)

So I found what appears to be a fix!
I started out to check if any of our 'older' bins were the right size etc to fit the lid. Didn't get out of the shop, because there was an almost exact copy of the bin that didn't work right at the door. This one is 7ish years old and it is 75L and the new one is 72L. BUT it is heavy and feels stronger in the side walls.
With the vac running the sidewalls still dint in, even with none of the blast gates open, but it does not distort the way the new one did that broke the seal.

(06:09:2020)

I got thinking about how the air flowed in this system, and that the big vac likely couldn't pull air through the Dust Deputy as fast as it would like. So I switched to the little vac, and not having any definitive test to be sure but the small vac seems to move more air than the big unit

(09:09:2020)
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