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02-08-2010, 06:24 PM
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Air filtration finished "The Beast"
Name: Tony
City: Midlothian
State: VA
County: Chesterfield
Join Date: Jan 2010
Age: 48
02-08-2010, 06:24 PM
Well I finally finished my air filtration system and got it up on the ceiling. I have nicknamed it "The Beast" simply because of its size and the amount of air it is blowing around. After about 1 minute I could see cobwebs all around the garage swaying in the breeze. Thanks to everybody for your help and knowledge with my questions while I was pondering building this thing.
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02-08-2010, 06:28 PM
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Name: David
City: Lincolnton
State: NC
County: Lincoln
Join Date: Dec 2008
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Re: Air filtration finished "The Beast"
Looking good and I think it's aptly named.  |
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02-08-2010, 11:38 PM
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Name: Michael
City: Garner
State: NC
County: Wake
Join Date: May 2007
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Re: Air filtration finished "The Beast"
Looks similar to mine.
Suddenly I found all the missing heat that was in the garage when it started blowing back down from the ceiling.
You are going to like it.
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02-08-2010, 11:41 PM
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Name: Matthew
City: Goldsboro
State: NC
County: Wayne
Join Date: Feb 2008
Age: 29
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Re: Air filtration finished "The Beast"
Very Nice~!
I need one of those~!
You ROCK~!
What did you use for the motor/fan unit?
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02-09-2010, 12:09 AM
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Name: Dan
City: La Grange
State: NC
County: Lenoir
Join Date: Jan 2010
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Re: Air filtration finished "The Beast"
Good job!
You got a squirrel cage in there?? More than one speed? I need to make one soon.
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02-09-2010, 10:40 AM
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Name: Ray
City: Raleigh
State: NC
County: Wake
Join Date: Mar 2006
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Re: Air filtration finished "The Beast"
Are there any drawings / plans for this thing? I'm trying to work my way toward a cleaner shop. Recently picked up a Steel City DC. Gotta go get some hoses and fittings now.
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02-09-2010, 11:04 AM
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Moderator
Name: Glenn
City: Baskerville
State: VA
County: Mecklenburg
Join Date: Jan 2008
Age: 61
Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Re: Air filtration finished "The Beast"
Very good Tony, I am glad you got it "up" and running. 
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02-09-2010, 06:15 PM
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Name: Tony
City: Midlothian
State: VA
County: Chesterfield
Join Date: Jan 2010
Age: 48
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Re: Air filtration finished "The Beast"
I got the blower from a local HVAC dealer in Richmond. Not only was it free the owner of the company even asked me if I wanted one of his guys to build a box for it. I had to buy the timer, filters, eye bolts, chain and power cord, all the rest I had lying around the shop. Right now I have it on the low speed and the way I put it together I can get to the motor to swap the speeds quite easy, all I have to do is remove the filters to get to the inside of the box. I have more pictures of the build in the gallery section and I also have a crude drawing I can post on there also.
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Perfect Valor is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were all the world watching.
Francois` de la Rochefoucauld
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02-11-2010, 09:23 AM
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Name: Cynthia
City: Stedman
State: NC
County: Cumberland
Join Date: Feb 2010
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Re: Air filtration finished "The Beast"
Nice job! I really have to do better about containing the airborne sawdust in my shop. How big is the filter side, and could it possibly be reworked with 5 sides pulling in filtered air and one side exhausting (out the back or top)? That would pull a lot more airborne sawdust, I am thinking... but perhaps my thinking is flawed. Someone help me out here!
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02-11-2010, 10:08 AM
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Moderator
Name: Glenn
City: Baskerville
State: VA
County: Mecklenburg
Join Date: Jan 2008
Age: 61
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Re: Air filtration finished "The Beast"
Without going into the gory technical details, any given blower is going to move X CFM of air. When you increase the surface area of your intake you are dividing the CFM across the additional filter media. ( X/5 in your scenario) IMHO you reach a point of diminishing return where the intake air flow has lost so much velocity that the filtration becomes ineffective. YMMV. As I told Tony in an earlier post, when I built my first shop built air cleaner I used a thicker filter and it seemed to work better.
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Last edited by Glennbear; 02-11-2010 at 10:39 AM..
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