Things we throw away from the workshop are unusable scrap material, saw dust (although I keep some as spill absorbents), rags, etc. The motor on this one of two Fein shop vacs I own burned out a while back. I threw the motor assembly and cover but kept the bottom canister. For a while it was a trash can at the corner of the shop. Then I decided to do something with it, sort of re-purposing it for a somewhat related function.
I was going to use it as an intermediate stage canister with a cyclone dust separator. I purchased online a cheap version of a separator at half the cost.
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| I cut a circle from a piece of 1/2 inch plywood, lightly larger than the diameter of the top of the canister. |
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| Drilled a 3-inch hole at the center. |
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| Installed the cyclone separator |
The wheeled canister adds a lot of convenience and a long hose even more so, when attached to tools with dust extraction.
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| This system prolongs the life of the vacuum motor because very little dust actually goes through the vacuum filter since much of the dust, specially the heavier ones, drops to the canister while only lighter dust and air go all the way to the separate vacuum cleaner. |
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