Harbor freight dust collector

Hi everyone. Just a “weekendwarrior / hack” here. I was hoping youcould give me your opinion on a proposed setup for my small garage workshop….specificallythe proper duct size to use. Afterlooking at countless threads I’m still having a hard time nailing this piecedown. Like many hobbyists, I have a 10year old stock Harbor Freight unit that I’m upgrading. For what it’s worth it’s “rated” at 2HP and1550 CFM. I just purchased a WynnCartridge Filter and the 5” Super Dust Deputy. I…

After months of researching, I decided to build my own dust collection system. This system is entirely bagless, and has been extremely efficient so far. I needed a system that […]

Fellow Dust Generators, Just wanted to share my dust collector set up including some mods to the Harbor Freight dust collector I use in my workshop. I am still building the parts to hook it up to my x carve... nothing …

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My HF/Thien/Wynn conversion

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Fellow Dust Generators, Just wanted to share my dust collector set up including some mods to the Harbor Freight dust collector I use in my workshop. I am still building the parts to hook it up to my x carve... nothing …

Tearing up a perfectly good (new) Harbor Frieght dust collector My shop has always been unorganized. Every time I would get a new tool I would just find...

In an effort to improve the dust in my shop, I decided to get a dust collector. My vacuum cart with a dustdeputy does a great job; however, I needed a larger volume of air moved to remove more dust. I thought about an individual cyclone separators such as one by Grizzly, but it was getting expensive and I think my wife would not be happy. With that, I started searching the internet and decided to really soup up a Harbor Freight Dust collector. Below is the final picture and a schematic of…

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