Doug, do you think this is as good as the Dust Deputy? It's quite a bit cheaper and that is good. Thanks for posting this. It will help a lot of us have more clean air.
Home Depot Dustopper - 2 1/2 inch separator
Tool: Dustopper High Efficiency Dust Separator, 12 in. dia, with 2.5 in hose, 36 in. long
Reviewer: Doug KP91
Tool Rating: 9
Picture: see below (and I don't know why, but every picture taken by my iPad shows up upside down!!)
Review:
I converted the dust collection on my CNC from the smaller dust hood to a 2 -1/2 inch connection dust hood to increase efficiency. I cut a lot of Corian and similar products, and the dust would stick in the smaller hood because of the static and foul it up. Going to the larger hose has been a vast improvement in both effectiveness and noise reduction.
My big shop vac has a clean-stream hepa filter on it, and it clogs quickly with the fine dust, and has to be cleaned a lot. To reduce the intervals I have to clean it, I thought I would try this little cyclone that sits on top of a bucket. It was not sold in my store, but I saw it when I was up helping out my parents and had to make a HD run. It was about $35, I already had the bucket.
The unit is pretty simple, you get the separator head and a length of hose to go between the cyclone and the vacuum. You use your hose on the inlet side. Nothing complicated.
I emptied the shop vac, hooked up the separator to the CNC, and took a 2 thousandths cut on the spoil board. After surfacing 8 square feet of MDF, I took a look inside the shop vac and the separator. I think the pictures show the results pretty dramatically.
So far the only complaint I have is that the lid fits almost too tight on the bucket. The effort it takes to get the clips loose is much more than I expected. I am using a 7 gallon bucket, maybe I will try it on a 5 gallon Home Depot bucket and see if it is a little easier.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Dustopp...ia-with-2-5-in-hose-36-in-long-HD12/302643445
Reviewer: Doug KP91
Tool Rating: 9
Picture: see below (and I don't know why, but every picture taken by my iPad shows up upside down!!)
Review:
I converted the dust collection on my CNC from the smaller dust hood to a 2 -1/2 inch connection dust hood to increase efficiency. I cut a lot of Corian and similar products, and the dust would stick in the smaller hood because of the static and foul it up. Going to the larger hose has been a vast improvement in both effectiveness and noise reduction.
My big shop vac has a clean-stream hepa filter on it, and it clogs quickly with the fine dust, and has to be cleaned a lot. To reduce the intervals I have to clean it, I thought I would try this little cyclone that sits on top of a bucket. It was not sold in my store, but I saw it when I was up helping out my parents and had to make a HD run. It was about $35, I already had the bucket.
The unit is pretty simple, you get the separator head and a length of hose to go between the cyclone and the vacuum. You use your hose on the inlet side. Nothing complicated.
I emptied the shop vac, hooked up the separator to the CNC, and took a 2 thousandths cut on the spoil board. After surfacing 8 square feet of MDF, I took a look inside the shop vac and the separator. I think the pictures show the results pretty dramatically.
So far the only complaint I have is that the lid fits almost too tight on the bucket. The effort it takes to get the clips loose is much more than I expected. I am using a 7 gallon bucket, maybe I will try it on a 5 gallon Home Depot bucket and see if it is a little easier.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Dustopp...ia-with-2-5-in-hose-36-in-long-HD12/302643445
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I saw a youtube video comparing the Dust Deputy and the Home Depot Dustopper. I went with the Dustopper for 40 dollars. Thirty minutes after getting home I had set up the Dustopper with a 25-year-old Craftsman vac, a 50-year-old car creeper, and a milk bottle plastic bin. I was in business.
Works great, Almost nothing gets through to my vac. It's so successful that I'm going to get more for each work station and find used shop vacs for 25 bucks or less. Even new shop vacs can be purchased for 50 bucks on sale.
To me it's cheaper and so much easier to set-up and use than a huge shop-wide dust collector system. If I had one for each tool (table saw, router, band saw, drill press) I still come out cheaper and just as effective in my opinion.
I also use these to clamp hoses onto dust ports. Zip ties w/a quick release. I picked up two more today. About 3 bucks each at HD.
Steve
Works great, Almost nothing gets through to my vac. It's so successful that I'm going to get more for each work station and find used shop vacs for 25 bucks or less. Even new shop vacs can be purchased for 50 bucks on sale.
To me it's cheaper and so much easier to set-up and use than a huge shop-wide dust collector system. If I had one for each tool (table saw, router, band saw, drill press) I still come out cheaper and just as effective in my opinion.
I also use these to clamp hoses onto dust ports. Zip ties w/a quick release. I picked up two more today. About 3 bucks each at HD.
Steve
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