Thien Separator Plans

Since making my 1st top entry thien separator and then read quite a bit of the other related threads i want to put a question to the forum after a little bit of preamble. Making a cyclone chip separator for a dust collector. A dust collector should be one of the first major purchases for any woodworking shop.
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Looking over the pics and reading and re reading the plans i decided it was within my capabilities.

Thien separator plans. Phil thiens well known cyclone design. Hi guys again this is a veritable pandorras box. It works because the incoming air is forced around the outside wall where the heavier dust and chips fall through a slot in the baffle into the large trash can below. The thien separator does a wonderful job and i see no dust or chips entering my wetdry vac.

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. This is an easy to build dust separator with a baffle based on j. However since there is not a pictorial how to on making one of those i decided to fill the gap and maybe accidentally be of use to someone. Building a thien baffle for a while now ive been meaning to play with making a thien baffle for my garage workshop.

Harbor freight 2hp dust collector with wynn 35a filter and thien baffle pre separator setup duration. That is a really nice build on the filter however by rotating the motor impeller you have or will shortly destroy your motor. 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. Motors designed to be run in horizontal have no thrust bearings and when run in the vertical mode will shortly fail due to the rotor sliding down and striking the housing possibly also damaging your impeller.

Centrifugal dust separator a conventional cyclone separator needs a fair amount of vertical height to allow the dust to drop down the cone. Not only do they help keep things clean and tidy they also protect your lungs from harmful airborne dust. The most interesting and seemingly workable was the thien cyclone separator. 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.

A dust collector is only as good as its filter and.