I was aiming to get the right hand side doors ground today, but decided
that making a cycone for the shop vacuum would be a good investment for
future sanding. Which there will be lots of, given the shape of the wagon.
The little ash vacuum I used without filter for the sander quit yesterday. Here's what it looked like:
when I took out the motor, I wasn't surprised that it didn't take long for it to burn
as all the debris that otherwise would have stuck in the filter actually went
through the motor for cooling. The vacuum dying was to be expected anyway,
though not this fast.
The filter in the shop vacuum clogs every few minutes
when sanding, so a cyklone had to be acquired some way.
I decided to cut off the motor portion, and glued in a bucket in its place. I
found some tubing that fit the vacuum hoses in the scrap bin, and after some cutting,
welding, pop riveting and gluing this is the result:
The vacuum connects to the top, and the sander to the nice exhaust pipe,
this will create a whirl (cyklone) inside the bucket, and hopefully make the
dust settle on the bottom, and mostly clean air to exit upwards.
Who knows, it might even work
