Thien Baffle Dust Collector

Building the two bucket cyclone when i built the thien baffle style cyclone for my first small dust collector making that cylinder out of wood was a lot of workso for this one i figured id just use another bucket as the enclosing cylinder. I know the thien baffle is a very popular and low cost separator and i know it works rather well from experience. Im definitely glad i did this.
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The thien cyclone separator lid w the thien cyclone separator baffle after seeing one sexy cyclone after another at the various woodworking forums and with the understanding that cyclone lids arent true cyclones and dont offer a full cyclone experience i decided to try them nonetheless.

Thien baffle dust collector. This is a thien baffle quickly created with a 5 gallon bucket. A side by side comparison of a thien baffle and cyclone. The thien baffle has stopped that swirling and therefore the upper bag should be staying much cleaner. Im not the first to put my thien baffle in that location.

The advantages of an internal thien baffle are. Centrifugal dust separator a conventional cyclone separator needs a fair amount of vertical height to allow the dust to drop down the cone. Thien baffle for dust collector. April 02 2009 074914 am ive considered repainting mine but i bought the extended warranty for mine and am concerned they might fuss if i take a ford jalapeno green or maybe hugger orange dust collector in to them.

But now that i have upgraded to a true dc from a shop vac im wondering if it may be worth the effort to put together a true cyclone. An alternative form of cyclone is what is known as a thien bafflein a thien baffle the air spirals in a flat shape from the edge to the center whereas in a cyclone it moves in more of a helical pattern down the cone and then back up the middle. Adding a thien baffle to a harbor freight dc reply 8 on. Then i received an oneida dust deputy as a gift and i realized i had the opportunity to generate the information i could not find and share it.

Building a thien baffle for a while now ive been meaning to play with making a thien baffle for my garage workshop. When i first bought this dust collector the dust would swirl in the bottom bag like a tornado. The motivation is that whilst i have a quite nice 3hp dust extractor for those in the market for such a thing dont spend 1400 with some retailers i am super happy with my 500 unit from leda machinery i want to keep the number of times i change the bags to a.