Northridge Mod-E / Dust Collection

razor-edge-knives said:
Nice, how will that hood over top work for dust collection?
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My belt grinders also throw sparks and dust to the rear. I figure the hood in combination of a dust catch underneath. It should catch most of the dust. I had a bucket of water underneath of it up until this point. But I cant handle the dust in my shop anymore. I'm gonna mount my dust collection motor outside. I'm gonna put around 6" of water in my seperator drum I built. Hopefully this will solve my dust problem. I still have to build 3 dust collectors for each separate grinder. I'm gonna put dust gates on each machine.
 
Brian Stucker said:
My belt grinders also throw sparks and dust to the rear. I figure the hood in combination of a dust catch underneath. It should catch most of the dust. I had a bucket of water underneath of it up until this point. But I cant handle the dust in my shop anymore. I'm gonna mount my dust collection motor outside. I'm gonna put around 6" of water in my seperator drum I built. Hopefully this will solve my dust problem. I still have to build 3 dust collectors for each separate grinder. I'm gonna put dust gates on each machine.
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One little tip, even with the gates & water, never grind woods, then steel without cleaning the collector system. I had a fire start in the hose & collector:oops: .. Made for a few frantic moments when with my respirator on, Huh? I smell something burning and then grabbed the fire extinguisher and saw that smoke was billowing out of my wet/dry shop vac collector :rolleyes:
 
Rhinoknives1 said:
One little tip, even with the gates & water, never grind woods, then steel without cleaning the collector system. I had a fire start in the hose & collector:oops: .. Made for a few frantic moments when with my respirator on, Huh? I smell something burning and then grabbed the fire extinguisher and saw that smoke was billowing out of my wet/dry shop vac collector :rolleyes:
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I appreciate the advice. I've got a shopvac set up with a mini cyclone for wood. I'm gonna make an adapter so I can disconnect my 4" hose on the collectors on the bottom side of the machine and just use the shopvac for wood.
 
12345678910 said:
I think you have a better chance of sucking that dust down rather than up.
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I'm gonna add a dust collector on the bottom of each machine also. Plus the hood. Dust also gets slung to the back. My shop is a disaster after 4 yrs of grinding. I've been using a bucket of water resulting in metal dust in the rafters on the wall studs and in every crevice and crack of the shop.
 
Brian Stucker said:
I'm gonna add a dust collector on the bottom of each machine also. Plus the hood. Dust also gets slung to the back. My shop is a disaster after 4 yrs of grinding. I've been using a bucket of water resulting in metal dust in the rafters on the wall studs and in every crevice and crack of the shop.
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My shop(s) have gotten dust incrusted no matter what systems I’ve had, unless you can put in a large cyclone system? Anyways, once a month or so, I have cleaning day from top to bottom and even hired people to help or do it completely. Sometimes. I have Hearing issues, Huh? What??? and it hurts to hear the vac system at times, doing a full clean up!
 
Wow that's looking good! What vacuum are you going to be using on it?
 
Dude that looks awesome! I'm also really digging that new grinder from Northridge... I may "need" one of those... ;)
 
razor-edge-knives said:
Ok it may work but I use a ~5hp shop vac for mine and it's still not ideal suction. You may want to upgrade that at some point :)
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His 1 Hp motor and your Shop VAc 5HP rating are not at all comparable

I would guess that his industrial 1 HP motor is more powerful than the shop vac.

The shop vac power rating is absolute marketing bullshit.
It relates to "peak" vs RMS averages of the AC sine wave

a 1 Hp motor is at the limit of fitting into a breaker 120vac, 12 amps.
a 5 hp motor in a 120vac plug would absolutely not work within a 15 or even 20 amp breaker

https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit...-vac-class-action-says-horsepower-misleading/
 
12345678910 said:
His 1 Hp motor and your Shop VAc 5HP rating are not at all comparable

I would guess that his industrial 1 HP motor is more powerful than the shop vac.

The shop vac power rating is absolute marketing bullshit.
It relates to "peak" vs RMS averages of the AC sine wave

a 1 Hp motor is at the limit of fitting into a breaker 120vac, 12 amps.
a 5 hp motor in a 120vac plug would absolutely not work within a 15 or even 20 amp breaker

https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit...-vac-class-action-says-horsepower-misleading/
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ahhh that makes a lot of sense thanks for explaining that!!

Brian Stucker said:
I think the blower is around 1300 cfm. If it's too small I will go to a 3 hp 220v eventually. I'm gonna mount the motor outside in this weatherproof enclosure. I got the enclosure for freeView attachment 1188020 View attachment 1188021
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that looks great! Would you mind posting a pic of the blower you are using? I would like to look into something similar but not sure exactly what to get. apparently I've been misled this whole time haha
 
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