I’ve finally reached my limit of patience with this thing… I can only run my vacuum for a good minute and a half and then I have to shut it off and wait and constantly do this… If I don’t well this happens… I first tried one of cardboard type containers, that instantly went poof, then I switched to this thinking it would be sturdy enough but it isn’t… I almost wish I would of went with a lower peak hp vacuum, (This one is 6HP Peak) Anyways, anyone else with a dust deputy what do you use? I didn’t want to go with the smaller pales but at this point I think I don’t have much of a choice, I feel like I’d be stuck dumping it too often.
regular 50 gallon plastic trash can from the depot, I cut a disk that goes inside so it wont collapse cut it with the carve its getto rigged with duct tape and pvc pipe looks like some nightmare before Christmas meets dr stuff. ill post some pics when I get a minute. nice thing is I run my table saw band and a few others off of it dump it every two months usually, dust bag every few weeks. hooked up to a 1 1/2 hrs dust collector
You could try internal support in your barrel. I remember seeing a YouTube video about this at some point.
I use the DD with the included bucket and a baby shop vac I got at walmart for $18. The whole thing takes up less than 2 sq feet and works great.
You may also want to take out that huge sag of slack. Unless that’s really serving a purpose you are needlessly adding not only drag on the air, especially with the right 180 degree turn, but it’s also a place where things could build up and create potential blockages- even if momentary.
It all depands what you want to achieve. If problem is only the barrel destroyed then yes the hole will help BUT you will lose like 15% of sucking abilities (depanding on your tube length) with just 1" hole. It is a lot especially if you do not have big reserves of sucking power.
He have to buy a new barrel anyway because this is damaged and even after making it stright will bend much easier and when he has to buy new one, just buy the metal one (used) for small money. So making a hole is not good advice here in my opinion.
I better start saving up my pennies! I already have a long list of tools I want and just recently decided to get into metal working. Portable band saw is my number one tool i’d like right now
I used that exact same bin, but with a shopvac, instantly went poof. I’m thinking of jusr using a small pale and I’ll go and buy a cheap dust collector
This bin is not a cheap one I get them from my work, They are quite thick and I used it with my wall mounted shop vac first. Then I upgraded to this collector and its sooo much better. I also added my version of a dust boot (4") to my Xcarve, what you think? I have no dust issues when running, my wife even noticed it.
