It will not be difficult to make a cyclone for a vacuum cleaner with your own hands if you have experience working with tools. The installation, called a cyclone, plays the role of an effective air purifier from small debris and dust. Many woodworking machines are equipped with nozzles for chip removal. A homemade cyclone is connected to this pipe.
People who were on the territory of industrial enterprises paid attention to the conical structures, turned down with their top. These are industrial cyclones designed to purify polluted air. The problem of creating a cyclone filter with their own hands worries the owners of home workshops.
The work of the cyclone is as follows:
You can purchase a finished product for cleaning air from pollution (sawdust, dust and debris), but the simplicity of the device attracts many minds to making a cyclone with your own hands. The variety of auxiliary material, as well as the availability of universal tools, allows you to create cyclones of various models.
A self-made filter does not take much time and saves money. Let's imagine several options for making cyclone filters with your own hands.
As a body of the device, you can use 10 liter plastic buckets from water-based paint. Prepare the following tools and materials.
The cyclone filter is ready for operation. As needed, the upper part of the cyclone is removed from the drive and its debris is released. The filter is periodically cleaned with a toothbrush, driving the bristles into the folds of the corrugations.
You can not make a box-shaped frame of the side pipe, and cut and bend its outer edges. Then fasten the bent sides to the edges of the bucket opening with screws or rivets. But such a connection will be less reliable than the above mount.
Take two plastic buckets - 5 and 10 liters. The cyclone is assembled as follows:
Many may have a question - why do we need a curly insert? The insert forms the correct direction of the air flow inside the cyclone. At the same time, the horizontal platform beats the air pressure upwards and allows sawdust and other debris to gradually settle in the drive.
To make a chip blower from plastic sewer fittings, you will need the following tools and materials.
Garbage "flows" down the surface of the auger and enters the bottle (garbage bin). Air, freed from solids, goes up the inner tube. In order to clean the drive, just unscrew the plastic bottle from the cork and shake out all its contents.
The original way of making a cyclone from a road chip attracts many homemade lovers. The shape of the chip is a cone made of rather thick plastic.
Proceed as follows:
Upon completion of the work, the device is ready for operation.
The power of a household vacuum cleaner for some types of processing wooden blanks is insufficient. To clean large volumes of air, they make a snail-type chip blower with their own hands. The body of the device resembles a snail shell in its shape.
Craftsmen make the body of the snail from two types of materials - metal and wood. Creating a metal case will require the use of a welding machine and the ability to handle this equipment. There is another way - making a snail from construction plywood.
To work with plywood in a home workshop, you need to have a jigsaw, drill and other woodworking tools. The most important part of the exhaust fan is the air intake wheel. It is made from lightweight materials such as wood, plastic and the like. The impeller is assembled in such a way that the blades are bent or rotated by the inner edge with respect to the wheel radius line by 450.
The outlet is connected to the cyclone filter with the help of adapters and hoses. The axis of the air intake wheel is connected directly to the motor shaft or a belt drive is installed, which is preferable to coaxial docking. Firstly, the pulley on the wheel axle is easier to isolate from the side opening of the volute, which increases the performance of the device. Secondly, the removal of the electric motor contributes to its necessary cooling.
The expediency of using snails is due to large volumes of production. Engine power is selected according to the operating mode of the exhaust fan. Usually it is enough to install a motor with a power of 5 kW to 30 kW of asynchronous type. It is advisable to connect the power unit through a shaft speed control device.
A do-it-yourself cyclone filter not only ensures cleanliness in the home workshop, residential area, but also protects the respiratory tract and lungs of people around. The existence of various "recipes" for making a cyclone with your own hands confirms that, if desired, every fan of making homemade products can do this.
This is a video of the “Lawyer Egorov” channel about how to assemble a home-made full-fledged cyclone from a bucket and two corners of a funnel in five minutes. In other words, a separator for chips, sawdust and other debris.
If a household vacuum cleaner was used in a workshop or when repairing an apartment, then its dust collector will quickly fill up and the work will have to be interrupted. But using the Cyclone, you can forget about changing the dust bag for years. This separator has been serving for the second year, and the author of the development does not get enough of it. In just two minutes, make sure that the title of this video is not exaggerated, and you can assemble a complete separator in your garage in just a couple of minutes.
For ease of use in the Cyclone workshop, it can be installed on a makeshift platform in the form of a cart, the production of which will take at least half an hour. But the separator can be used without it. In the case when it is connected to the chip removal of a permanently installed router, thicknesser saw and other equipment that produces sawdust, the trolley is not needed at all. But it is very convenient when cleaning the workshop. A bucket, two hose cutters and a vacuum cleaner can easily fit under any household machine. By the way, if you plan to organize a single dust removal system in a small home workshop with your own hands, perhaps connecting such a separate chip suction to each machine will save you from obvious engineering and technical difficulties to solve.
From the circular table equipped with the Cyclone, sawdust almost does not fly out. It is recommended to power the tool and the chip extractor connected to it through one toggle switch. Then, when you turn on the machine, the vacuum cleaner will immediately work. In the manufacture of his bow, he used a milling cutter, and the dust from it flew in all directions. For this reason, until I made my own Cyclone, I tried not to use the router. Now there is less debris from the router. For a thicknesser, a corner from a larger diameter hose is better.
By placing the camera inside a homemade working Cyclone, you can see how the sawdust is sucked into the separator, but cannot escape from it and get into the vacuum cleaner. The idea of a cyclone-type separator is to force the coarse dust sucked into the container to fall to the bottom of the container, to prevent this dust from entering the zone from which air is pumped out. Gravity, friction and centrifugal force cause the sawdust to rotate inside the bucket, pressing against its walls, and fall in a spiral to the bottom of the container. As you can see, the idea of a separator is extremely simple and there is simply nothing to break in this primitive design.
Everyone is used to the fact that such a container has the shape of a cone, but as practice has shown, the separator can also be cylindrical. The advantage of the proposed design is that the entrance to the tangential air flow separator is not through a curved side wall, which is not at all easy, but through a flat cover. And this is much easier and faster to do. In addition, it reduces the size of the structure. The entire design of the Cyclone is placed on one lid, which allows you to carry the Cyclone by simply removing the lid from one bucket and covering it with another.
There is unsurpassed mobility. So you can consistently fill bucket after bucket with sawdust, and then get rid of the sawdust at once. For example, put them in a compost heap, heat them by loading them into a long-burning oven, or use them in any other way.
He described his Cyclone in more than detail. It's time to show how he did it. So, I drilled two holes in the lid. One is in the center of the lid, the other is on the edge, close to the stiffener. This was done with a core drill of a slightly smaller diameter than the polypropylene corner of the fan pipe. In this design, I used corners with a diameter of forty millimeters. Remove burrs and at the same time bore holes for a snug fit of the corner, conveniently wrapping a sheet of skin around the tube. It is important to stop here. Do not bore the hole beyond what is necessary. It remains to insert two polypropylene corners into the hole, and a full-fledged Cyclone is ready. As noted, I did not even seal the joints. I inserted the hoses from the vacuum cleaner into the corners, since there are sealing rings in the corners according to the size of the corrugated hose of the vacuum cleaner, and immediately began to use the separator. All operations did not take more than two minutes.
For the convenience of using the Cyclone and increasing its mobility, I assembled a T-shaped cart. Collected more than half an hour, but with repeated use, this work pays off. The trolley was assembled from the waste of a crooked worthless plywood. Marked the platform in place. I put a bucket and a vacuum cleaner on a sheet of plywood, marking the dimensions with a pencil.
The sawing table looks unsightly, as it was assembled from garbage in haste and these are all temporary solutions. A piece of square pipe and two clamps are used as a parallel stop. But, despite the primitive design, you can work on this homemade product. Set the depth of cut according to the thickness of the plywood ...
Discussion
Recently, I have become interested in working with wood and the question of removing chips and sawdust has become very acute. So far, the issue of cleaning the workplace is being solved with a home vacuum cleaner, but it quickly clogs and stops sucking. You have to shake out the bag often. In search of a solution to the problem, I reviewed many pages on the Internet and found something. As it turned out, quite workable dust collectors can be made from improvised materials.
Here is another mini venturi vacuum cleaner idea
such a vacuum cleaner works from forced air.
The Venturi effect is the drop in pressure when a liquid or gas flows through a constricted portion of a pipe. This effect is named after the Italian physicist Giovanni Venturi (1746–1822).
The Venturi effect is a consequence of the Bernoulli law, which corresponds to the Bernoulli equation, which determines the relationship between the speed v liquid, pressure p in it and height h, on which the considered fluid element is located, above the reference level:
where is the density of the liquid, and is the free fall acceleration.
If the Bernoulli equation is written for two flow sections, then we will have:
For a horizontal flow, the middle terms on the left and right sides of the equation are equal to each other, and therefore cancel, and the equality takes the form:
that is, with a steady horizontal flow of an ideal incompressible fluid in each of its sections, the sum of the piezometric and dynamic pressures will be constant. To fulfill this condition, in those places of the flow where the average fluid velocity is higher (that is, in narrow sections), its dynamic head increases, and the hydrostatic head decreases (and hence the pressure decreases).
ApplicationAnd now let's look at the samples that can take their rightful place in the workshop.
Ideally, I would like to get something similar to a cyclone filter, but from improvised materials:
The principle is the same, but made much simpler:
But this option I liked the most, as it is a reduced analogue of an industrial cyclone:
Since I don’t have a traffic cone, I decided to stop at such a structure, assembled from plastic sewer pipes. A definite plus is the availability and cheapness of the material for assembling the structure:
In this case, the desired vortex will be created.
The following video shows a similar design in action:
And finally, a slightly modified version:
The process of mechanical processing of wooden blanks is always accompanied by the release of dust or scattering of chips and sawdust. Modern power tools provide the ability to connect any installations for collecting and removing wood waste, but their purchase for domestic needs is not always justified. At the home level, a home-made device successfully copes with the problem of dust removal. Let us consider in detail the procedure for manufacturing a vacuum cleaner for a workshop.
Necessary materials and tools
The basis for the implementation of the project is an old household vacuum cleaner, from which the following components are used:
motor part;
Power regulator;
Power wire;
suction hose;
Nozzles.
For the homemade case, a polyethylene barrel with a capacity of 50–80 liters is selected, always with a fixed lid. You will also need:
A piece of plastic sewer pipe with a diameter of 50 mm;
Plywood 5–10 mm thick;
Bolts and nuts M6 - 14 pieces each;
Strip of galvanized sheet;
Air filter from a minibus;
220 Volt switch;
Threaded stud with washers and nuts;
Construction sealant;
Sandpaper;
Glue sticks;
Drain corrugated hose for washing machine;
Electrical corrugation PND 32.
Docking nodes are made of plastic tubes and fittings, selected depending on the size of the nozzles on the tools and the diameters of the suction hoses of the vacuum cleaner. The list of tools used:
Glue gun;
Drill;
Locksmith keys;
Screwdrivers;
wire cutters;
Electric jigsaw;
Sharp knife;
Files;
Sealant gun.
Workshop vacuum cleaner manufacturing process
Stepping back from the top about 100 mm, a hole is marked on the wall of the barrel for the inlet pipe and drilled with a drill. Then, with a knife, the hole is oval-shaped so that the inner end of the pipe is placed close to the wall and directed downward at a slight angle. Degrease the surfaces to be joined and, using a glue gun, fix the nozzle in place.
In the same "hot" way, an adapter for the suction hose is fixed on the outer part of the pipe.
With a jigsaw, two circles are cut out of plywood with a diameter slightly smaller than that of the barrel lid. First, two holes are made in the blanks for the bolts and the parts are fixed with them on both sides of the cover. Next, drill the rest of the holes, remove the circles and remove the burrs with a sandpaper. Sealant is applied around the perimeter of the blanks, the parts are placed on the lid and the fasteners are fully installed. In the center of the plywood circles, a hole is made for the stud, and a little to the side - for the air intake by the motor unit.
A metal mesh is removed from the air filter with wire cutters, otherwise it will become clogged with sawdust and interfere with cleaning the vacuum cleaner. One end of the cylinder is closed with a plywood plug.
The prepared filter element is fixed on the stud with a wing nut.
The motor part, as a rule, has a round shape. Therefore, for ease of installation, plastic parts in which the engine was located are cut out from the body of the old vacuum cleaner. Thanks to them, to fix the unit on the lid of the barrel, you only need one clamp, made from a strip of tin.
A switch and a power regulator are placed next to the engine, placing the latter in a suitable box. It remains to connect the elements together with wires and connect the cable with a plug. After making sure that the connections are correct and that there are no exposed contacts, they supply power and check the operation of the device.
The standard suction hose of a household vacuum cleaner is too short - it is extended with a corrugated pipe for wiring or other similar product.
Manufacture of nozzles and adapters
Cleanliness in the workshop begins with a workbench. To clean the workplace, a standard brush is used, which comes with the household appliance.
The nozzle is connected by means of a rubber adapter cut off from a tube of the appropriate caliber, for example, from the branch pipe of the car's cooling system.
One of the most littering power tools is an electric planer. The ejection fitting of the tool is large enough, most likely, the hose of the vacuum cleaner will be connected without problems.
The design does not provide for a filling sensor - at first you should look inside more often, preventing the vacuum cleaner from overflowing.
Cleanliness and order in the home workshop is the result of do-it-yourself work, achieved with a minimum of cash investment.
Repair and construction work is not only difficult, but also leaves a lot of dust and debris, which is often too lazy to clean up, and ordinary home vacuum cleaners are simply not able to cope with the task. A cyclone for a vacuum cleaner will help, capable of sifting out chips, sawdust and other debris without clogging the dust collector itself.
Many people know what construction rubbish is and how difficult it is to clean, especially on an industrial scale. There are special construction vacuum cleaners on the market that have high power, in comparison with household ones, but at the same time they have large dimensions and a considerable price. Therefore, masters of their craft create cyclone-type chip blowers with their own hands, thereby improving their household vacuum cleaners and facilitating their work.
The filter is a design of two compartments: external and internal. Under the action of centrifugal force, all rubbish entering the dust collector, based on the cyclone principle, sorted into large and small particles.
Large ones settle in the outer chamber, and small ones - in the inner one. It is because of this principle of operation of the filter that it was called a cyclone.
Before starting work, you need to remember that it will not be difficult to build such a simple device, therefore, after mastering the principles, you can immediately make your own masterful improvements to the mechanism.
When making a cyclone with your own hands from improvised materials, you need:
To make a vacuum cleaner with your own hands, you need:
The hose is tightly fixed with a polypropylene elbow and is directed clearly down, thereby setting a stable trajectory. Testing is carried out on a hard litter.
If you have problems finding a store-bought aquafilter, you can safely make a cyclone filter for a vacuum cleaner with your own hands. To do this, you only need a plastic pipe, the dimensions of which are set based on the size of the container (a sewer pipe of small diameter is suitable).
To make a filter on your own, you need to cut the pipe into pieces and tightly connect it into a T-shape so that air can easily pass between the chambers, and the side branches need to be plugged with fabric breathable material.
From below, at the base of the wide part, it is necessary to drill holes in a checkerboard pattern (for water intake). Next, you need to connect the cyclone filter to the water filter using a polypropylene elbow so that the water filter, while inside the tank, slightly touches the water.
Water is added just before the vacuum cleaner is used.
When making a bag for a vacuum cleaner with your own hands, any material will do, but it is important that it is dense. In order to make such a bag, you need only three materials:
A hole is made in the textolite with a diameter of the outlet of the dust collection valve, the sizes are different for everyone, depending on the model of the vacuum cleaner. Further, the same hole is made in the bag and fixed between the textolite and the bag.
In the opposite part of the bag, a hole is made to dump dust and litter, after which the bag is fixed with a clamp.
Cyclone was created in 1986 Jameson Dyson and since then has gained its authority in the sales market and holds its position to this day.
Not a single industrial field can do without this invention, which has such qualities as speed and reliability.
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