How I Made A Dust Cyclone for Under $2
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- There are PLENTY of awesome cyclone builds on youtube. Some I really like. But who has time cutting out circles and drilling a bunch of holes for screws? You can make this cyclone for $1.50 if you're smart with how you obtain the materials!!
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I have put this on my bucket list
Hahahaha good one.
My God you're really pushing the boat out!, my list is slightly more ambitious ...Although I agree with your logic, and will do one myself...😜👍
That's the first thing on my bucket list....Getting a Bucket
LOL
BWAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
This sucks ...
Finally, someone that weighed their dust sample!
And what does it tell you?
@@PatchworxStudios Tells you how much dust is actually making it into the vacuum.
@@JoeBlow-24 But it doesnt doesn't tell you how much micro particles came through and those are the dangerous ones. To sort out the big junk is not a problem. Actually bought and made me the same system and I can tell you you still need a bag a filter and an air cleaner for the Dangerous dust. Most of the reviews on TH-cam are lacking Proper testing.
@@PatchworxStudios who's to say there isn't a hepa filter on the vacuum? It seems to me the focus of this test is to separate as much bulk as possible. In that regard this cheap solution was a success.
@@JoeBlow-24 There was a statement about clogging up the filter slower but still it's the fine dust that will clog it. I am not against the idea for I am using it myself. What i wanted to say is that it somewhat useless to weight the dust because it is not representative for the efficiency of a cyclone. Even a poorly made one has a very high efficiency if you measure it like this. By the way those Bucket builds are just not even close to a proper cyclone cause of the geometry of said bucket.
This saved me a huge headache. I've almost bought a dust collection system 1000x. Glad I found the video. Worked perfect!
that was a good tip about drilling on a curved surface. Very thoughtful and considerate of you to mention that. good to see caring people out there.
Built one very similar to this about 10 years ago,used 2 " pvc fittings,installed in the lid, same style fittinds,just measure 2". it has worked great ! Glad you showed this to everyone .
Dude this really worked? On it tomorrow
I love that this design is so much simpler than others I've seen. No wood blocks cut out in the middle, no bs worrying about coupling random vacuum pieces, just straight up pvc glued in. From what I understand, I'll probably put the top piece centered on the lid for slightly better suction.
The other guys at least read about it before building. There is a reason for all that extra steps.
just built 2 of them this weekend...super easy...very effective...thank you for posting this video....
People who are needing something like this, likely have more than a drill.
Im sorry but I just came across this video looking for something else and ended up watching it all the way through...maybe a stupid question but what is the purpose of this contraption? If he has a vacuum already what is the use for making this bucket figamajig?
@@befree4052 Dust collection/control.
@@jed-henrywitkowski6470 I see ty
@@befree4052 its mainly to give your dust vac filter a much longer life and better efficiency as the dust will clog it up in no time
@@robstokes5179 thank you rob
Thanks Mark! This is an awesome solution to dust collection. I did as another guy did and angled my pvc fitting in the lid slightly downward and sealed the lid for a better vacuum. If you want to get a little fancier for about a dollar or two more, cut a small slit about an inch wide and 3 or 4 inches long towards the top of the bucket and hot glue a piece of plexiglass it in from the inside. Now you have a sight glass to know when your bucket is filling up. Thanks again Mark!
Worked like a charm. My first run wasn't so hot so I applied bathroom sticky tape around the inside of the lid to get a better vacuum and it made all the difference in the world. Hardly any sawdust got by the super "Mark Susak" cyclone. Thanks Mark.
made this in the exact same way yesterday. watched a fair few of these videos and so many are seriously over engineered... this one is super simple and it works. Thanks for sharing Mark Susak.EDIT... I did slightly angle the side insert downwards in the bucket a couple of degrees in the hope it would keep a little bit more debri away from the top vacuum insert.
Thx for taking the time to share this. The magic is the 45 deg pipe for the inlet. That was quite clever. What a time saver. Adding the second 45 and centering the outlet is the final ticket. Hmm adding that additional 45 is going to jack the price up another 75c.
Thx again.
Mark, thank you for this! The only question/feedback I had was giving advice on the measurements. I had to run around the big-box store until I found someone who knew how to handle PVC pipes (since I had no idea.)
For those wondering about numbers:
If the hose opening of your shopvac measures 1 inch, you should look for a 1 and a quarter inch PVC pipe to connect with and insert into the bucket.
Thanks again and have a great day.
Made it. Works great. One tip: it doesn't work if the bucket falls over, so you might want to put a base on it to prevent it from tipping. You should also try to get the most flexible hose you can. A stiff hose makes it more likely to tip over.
finally a straight forward build with good enough results. I'm definitely going to build one or more of these.
I like your delivery, very awesome. It was quick and you kept my attention --- also using the scale and giving us the percentage efficiency was perfect .
Installed this on my blasting cabinet. It works absolutely GREAT! 👌🏽 Great and very cheap solution.
I knew there had to be a less expensive and technical way to do that. Thanks.
This works INCREDIBLY well. My local hardware stores didn't have the correct size PVC so I had to improvise. I used 2 dust control flex cuffs with hose clamps. I inserted the PVC pipe and tightened for an air-tight seal then hot glued all the seams. I was shocked to see how well it worked. You're awesome!
I like your design.
Simple, straightforward, and inexpensive to build.
Well done!
Pick me up on your way down
Excellent proof of concept, weighing the dust before & after. Very convincing. Thanks!
Excellent tutorial and the part about the cyclone effect on the bucket: first time I saw that being explained so simple manner and easy to understand! Thanks mate!
Thank you for posting this easy, cheap but very effective project. Just made my own,works great! I’ve found that 6 mm chisel works great for making the holes
reminds me of the drywall dust collector I came up with. but I called it the "Bong", because I used water (wet dirt don't fly), and both holes were on the lid with one tube barely going into the lid (going to Shop Vac), and the other tube just into the water. (hence the term "Bong", Hookah if you like LOL). It was a bit messy, but my Shop Vac was not eaten alive by all the drywall dust.
Awesome. I love how direct you are about the construction, as well. If they're too dumb to grasp this idea, they're too dumb to use power tools unsupervised.
Absolute genius. Saved me from clicking that buy button on Glamazon and spending $70+ for something with not-so-good reviews. You're my hero! I love making stuff that saves me money anyways, so thanks again.
You just saved me $100. Thanks Mark, champion effort!
Yesterday I watch your video, today I went to buy the elbows, got a bucket and put it together in 20 minutes. It works like a charm.
Hope you read this and known that you make some dude in Argentina extremely happy.
Thanks Julian! Happy woodworking :)
I had all the items for this build in my workshop. The bucket was 1 that was used for wine making in the past now has a new lease of life. I did use a 90 degree fitting for the inlet instead of 45 degree fit, it work just as well My home made cyclone was a bargain. Thanks for making this video
Thanks Mark! I was just going to search this up to build and your video showed up on my subscription list. Almost spooky, nice and simple but does what it is intended to do. Thanks, Bill
+Yellowdog Welding awesome! Glad you like it Bill!
Like that, much simpler than others.
This is just what I was looking for, thanks for sharing Mark
This simple, yet cost effective addition to my occasional use hobby work shop, might be a little less efficient than other versions but it is easy to make and more importantly cheap. THANK YOU!
This is THE BEST video on TH-cam for this project! Well done mate!
Not really, this is one of the worst. Even his measurements are embarrassing, no pre measure, no taring, etc. Kinda goes with his poor build quality. Several much better ones like th-cam.com/video/1WnitgYFnE0/w-d-xo.html
and here's a much better measuring video th-cam.com/video/S5ryW5Fm_Sc/w-d-xo.html
Thank You much for sharing your time and ideas.
Makes great sense. Amazingly not over engineered (thought). Not everyone can think like this. Congratulations and thanks!!
I have buckets just lying around in the garage, this is awesome! Thanks for sharing
You're a genius! Thank you, doing this tomorrow!
Hey buddy, I’m a few years late to this video because there is thousands of cyclone videos. You said something that should be first and foremost in every woodworkers mind whether building a cyclone or piano: “It’s not Rocket Science!”
Having been a rocket scientist for a few days (my wife will never let me forget the pulse jet fiasco) I can attest to keep it simple.
One last thing, I never expected that voice to come from a youngster like you. Ever thought of being on the radio?
Take care, Bruce
God save the King
Thanks Bruce!
I’ve thought of it, but the Aussie accent isn’t popular around the world haha. All the best in the workshop be safe!
I'm inspired! gonna hit bunnings tomorrow cheers man!
Thank you! Simple, smart, direct to the point. Great video!
Mate....I built it...after watching a tonne of cyclone vacuum dust collection garbage.....THIS IS THE BEST SOLUTION.! cheap, nasty and works really well, so well it sucked a piece of melamine that stuck in the hose and cracked the plastic bucket.!!!! nothing a bit of gaffa tape didn't fix.! Mark - awesome aussie ingenuity ......
I made one of these. It works brilliantly thank you, and so much easier than cutting and attaching baffles.
Excellent video. Straight-to-the-point. Look forward to seeing more of your videos
Followed your step by step instructions, got a Nice Cyclone out of it!! Thanks
having watched many others, yours is the best so far. Thank you for making it look so damn easy
Assuming that it does work as demonstrated (and there is no reason not to believe that it does) this it the BEST (= easiest to make, cheapest, efficient) dust collection system I have EVER seen, period! Surely by experimenting with the IN/OUT tube diameter, length and placement as well as the overall height of the bucket plus the power of the vacuum, you can increase efficiency to be close to 99% which is what the professionally made models claim but at a much heftier price. But even at ~96% I'm happy, so I am definitely sold, and thank you so much (a thousand times), I am making one for sure! Mark you da man !!!
Thanks for this vid! It's short and right to the point ... and smart!
My poor over worked vac filter thanks you.
Dust has become an issue now for me and after some research I cans do this with stuff I got lying around.
Thanks for sharing
I will definitely build one of these for my shop this weekend. Thanks for the tutorial! I may sandwich the lid with some scrap plywood and cut both holes from the top rather than one on the side. I can use a small piece of pvc to direct the dust further down and along the edge of the bucket and away from the exhaust pipe, and keep the exhaust pipe short within the bucket and at the center.
Earl Wallace
Mark- I followed your directions and the dust collection system works perfectly. Thank you.
Excellent build and idea. Thank you for sharing
Been watching a few different methods and yours seem to be so much simpler and direct. Gonna be trying this method tomorrow and post afterwards
i knew something like this could be cheap and easy, thank you for demonstrating it!
Hi Mark, I made mine from an old drywall bucket (free) and used old (also free) swimming pool fittings and hose. I did however put both the inlet and outlet thru the top which makes it MUCH more convenient to empty the bucket. I also added a coffee can with a hole in the bottom, upside down, inside the bucket, around the connection to the vacuum, which was centered in the top. This increased the cyclone swirl effect and kept the dust from 'shortcutting' it's way to the vacuum. It works GREAT and it cost ZERO.
Yea, you have to empty it when it gets 3 - 5" full but it's very easy to do and greatly saves having to service the shop vac.
Thanks for the idea.
I agree running both through the top for ease of emptying. I think I will try the same thing only add a 4 or 5 inch straight piece to the 45 for the intake so its down in the bucket a few inches. I can't wait to try this.
Love this solution, especially the coffee can idea. One of the larger ones would work best, I imagine. Cheers!
I like the fact that you weighed the results. Pretty impressive.
Excellent, so simple and cheap yet so effective!
Great idea, I've got an old brewing bin that would be perfect for this 🖒
It's a wonderful cyclone ♪
EXCELLENT - cheap and easy THANK YOU
Thank very much young fellow your a good lad. Not many like you that seem to care anymore. God bless you from an old bloke.
Freekin awesome dude!! I'm making one this weekend. Thank you for pushing me in the price reasonable direction :)
I like it and will be building one as soon as I get to the shop.
Brilliant. Just what I was looking for. Thank you!
I'd use a 90 degree fitting on the inlet and extend it down to around two inches off the bottom of the bucket. Then add four to six inches of water to the bucket. You'll get exhaust from the bucket that has no dust in it whatsoever. Clean ups a little more trouble but you won't be spreading dust around the shop. You can cut out the bucket by simply converting the shop vac in this way and you end up with the equivalent of a three hundred dollar factory model rainbow vacuum.
Great and simple idea! Thanks for sharing
Got one of these in the pipeline (!) as a mate has a bucket for me (free) I've scrounged two old vacuum cleaner pipes (so free as well) when I took some crap to the local tip, and I have some bits of pipe lying around in my shed. Thanks to you I shall have an impressively good system for nothing! So... thankyou very much!!
Bloody easy. Have been looking for a lazy way to clean my driveway of dust and leaves. This would work perfect - THANK YOU.
Great job!! Thanks for taking time to share this great idea!!
This is smart, cheep, easy to build and most importantly, it works.
I know because I have build the same exact contraption and have been using it for the past four years. Today I was looking in TH-cam for a way to improve it but seeing this video has changed my mind.
Simple is best! All you really need is that 45 degree fitting on the side of the bucket to make the cyclone effect.
Good going Mark!
I like the way you think!
Thanks for the kind words!
Hi If I am trying this does the pvc have to be the same size as my vacuum hose fitting ? thoughts please thank you
An Aussie accent that sounds like you live just up the track, a bucket of briliance and proper sawdust. Works exactly the same as the homemade paint bucket pond filter the pobblebonks are raving about out the front. Beaut!
Awesome! I am going to make one tomorrow, thank you so much!
Great video. Very simple and straight forward. Well done.
Nice Work Mark, Well Done and keep up the Great Videos.
TC, Barry (ENG)
Definite thumbs up for the cheapest, simplest design. I saw some other video showing the efficiency of this type of design and while it is good when it is empty, it decreases dramatically when it is at 25% and obviously even more at 50% full. So with the cheapness also comes more work of frequent emptying to maintain decent efficiency.
Thanks, I made this one yesterday and it worked great! Just need to put the bucket in a stand of some kind to stop it falling over in use.
thank you for this tutorial, very clear and very useful!
Built this tonight it works great. Thanks for the video
Not bad at all! To induce a more effective cyclone within the bucket, try placing the exit port dead center in the lid. Cheers mate
Inspirational. I'm so glad i saw this before i built the Thien Baffle. I may still do that, but i want to give this a shot, though i will use 2" PVC. thanks.
You beaut! Fantastic DIY. Thx mate
Excellent. Best and easiest ever. Thank you
I will def try this, very easy explanation. Thanks man
Wow! Thank you Mark, Will definitely do this, you've just saved me a lot of money. 👍
Love the simplicity!! Thanks!!
Solid mate. Keep it on the cheap and get on with it. Cheers.
Thanks so much for this! I live in an apartment so I don't have a shop and I do most of my woodworking out on the balcony when it's not freezing nor raining. The limited space means I don't have room for a shopvac, but I'm slowly ruining my normal household vacuum every time I collect sawdust. This intermediary will undoubtedly extend the life of my normal vacuum and when not in use I can use the bucket as storage for the hoses and other tools. Really an ideal DIY, thank you for sharing!
Thanks Nathalie and I hope it works great!
Maybe one of those small wall-mounted Shopvacs would work for you?
Thanks for the video. I just went from no dust collector to a cyclone in less than 15 minutes
Wonderful idea, thanks for sharing.
Beautiful. Just beautiful. Bravo, mate . . .
Wow! Great video, your build fits my cheapskate budget perfectly.
Very great information! Thank a lots!
Have a great day :)
Saw this video a while back and finally made one it works great.
Bakeries have buckets. And they smell good too
Good job mate. Too easy....works great! I can't believe the complex designs others have made when yours works so well for bugger all cost.
ace job and very instructive wee vid. thanks for sharing.
I just finished working on my dust collector. And work great!
AWESOME video man! Thanks for the Great info, I can't wait to make one four myself!
97.5% efficiency for 1.5$
That's sexy.
Simple and economic, absolutely brilliant.