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Fall 2009 Raffle drawing this Friday (11/20): See This Thread For Details
I saw this on the news. It was taken at the LHC during a recent Black Hole test.
"The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator."
"One corollary of the delayed start-up of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest particle accelerator, is that it gives physicists—and the rest of the world—more time to mull the much-discussed possibility that the LHC could produce Earth-gobbling black holes."
I'm all for dust collection, but do we really need to create black holes to suck the dust from our belt sanders????
Jim
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There is a thread out there. I will have to look for it.....
Joe Scharle built the cyclone separator and hooked up his Fein Turbo dust management system to it and it collapsed the can!!!!
I have since inherited the can and baffle (thanks Joe!) and have been running it on my HF DC. Not near the amount of suckage with the HF!! (Oh ya. I did pop the sides of the trash can back into place.)
I'll look for his thread here shortly.
(EDIT: Sorry Mike. I can't seem to locate it just now....W)
Wayne
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Brian nailed the thread, but the moral of the story: Cheap Galvanized Ashcans from the BORG cannot tolerate a real dust collector. For the record, this has happened to lots of cyclone owners that forget that 26 gauge metal cannot stand up to 10-14" Static Pressure. A heavy straight side fiber drum or a solid polyethelyne chemical or food grade drum is a much better solution.
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IIRC the can collapsed when all the blast gates were closed simultaneously by mistake. Could an inverted 'waste gate' assembly be installed near the blower to open when the pressure reaches a predetermined level? I'm thinking of doing something like this when I do my DC system. Perhaps using a 4" tee with the stem turned down and a weighted plug inserted into a 4x3 reducer that would lift out of the seat with a given level of vacuum. It doesn't take much to collapse a galvanized can. I've collapsed plastic ones with the Lee Valley trash can separator top and a Craftsman 6 gallon shop vac. Whodathunkit?
You KNOW that since you've posted this thread, after I get my big system in operation I'll have to hook a trash can into it just to see if I can "trash" it more than Joe did!
08-08-2009, 10:13 AM
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(Oh ya. I did pop the sides of the trash can back into place.)
Truths: There is no such thing as a 25 hour day, so why do I keep trying to cram so much into every day so it seems that way! 
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