07-08-2016, 09:10 AM
Most of us are pretty familiar with the Oneida Dust Deputy, the little cyclone that adds on to shopvacs. Yesterday I took a couple hours to install it's big, big brother, the Super Dust Deputy XL.
When I first moved from a small basement shop to my new shop, I went from a 1HP dust collector, plugged into one tool at a time to needing ducting and a larger collector. I probably should have bought a cyclone, but I was trying to save money so I grabbed a 3HP Double Canister Dust Collector from Grizzly. It has plenty of airflow, but bag changes sure suck!
In my standard DYI spirit I made a Thein tophat and it worked very well, catching about 95% of my debris coming off my, tablesaw, bandsaw, router & 11" benchtop planer..... but as happens over time, tools break and we usually use that opportunity to upgrade; in this case is was my old 11" Ryobi benchtop planer. I'd been dealing with a lot larger lumber thanks to the nearness of central Ohio's Amish lumber mills, and I took this opportunity to jump up to a 15" Planer with Spiral Cutterhead. Unfortunately this jump was way too large for my tophat, it completely overloaded with the volume of chips coming off the new planer. So for the last couple years I've just been running the dust collector directly and dealing with the bags, their rips, and the drop in dust collection as the filters clog.
I've been eyeing the Super Dust Deputy as a relatively inexpensive solution to my dust collector woes. The problem has been that because of the size of my dust collector I've been in need of the XL version, none of the local stores carried the XL, and shipping tacks on around $60!!! During a recent sale I finally combined enough discounts to stomach the price and wow am I impressed!
With about 2 hours of work yesterday I was able to add the Super Dust Deputy inline to my ducting, and that's with a snazzy little wall attachment that allows me to swap dust barrels easily!
I've only briefly run the drum sander and the planer so far, but performance is exemplary! All the dust, I can see, ended up in the bin! If you have the space in your shop and an existing quality dust collector, and are still using single sage, I highly recommend this jump. If you have a > 3HP collector you can pickup the non XL version for around $150.... or if like me you need the XL you'll probably be stuck spending closer to twice that.... but is far less expensive than a full cyclone upgrade and an amazing performance improvement!
When I first moved from a small basement shop to my new shop, I went from a 1HP dust collector, plugged into one tool at a time to needing ducting and a larger collector. I probably should have bought a cyclone, but I was trying to save money so I grabbed a 3HP Double Canister Dust Collector from Grizzly. It has plenty of airflow, but bag changes sure suck!
In my standard DYI spirit I made a Thein tophat and it worked very well, catching about 95% of my debris coming off my, tablesaw, bandsaw, router & 11" benchtop planer..... but as happens over time, tools break and we usually use that opportunity to upgrade; in this case is was my old 11" Ryobi benchtop planer. I'd been dealing with a lot larger lumber thanks to the nearness of central Ohio's Amish lumber mills, and I took this opportunity to jump up to a 15" Planer with Spiral Cutterhead. Unfortunately this jump was way too large for my tophat, it completely overloaded with the volume of chips coming off the new planer. So for the last couple years I've just been running the dust collector directly and dealing with the bags, their rips, and the drop in dust collection as the filters clog.
I've been eyeing the Super Dust Deputy as a relatively inexpensive solution to my dust collector woes. The problem has been that because of the size of my dust collector I've been in need of the XL version, none of the local stores carried the XL, and shipping tacks on around $60!!! During a recent sale I finally combined enough discounts to stomach the price and wow am I impressed!
With about 2 hours of work yesterday I was able to add the Super Dust Deputy inline to my ducting, and that's with a snazzy little wall attachment that allows me to swap dust barrels easily!
I've only briefly run the drum sander and the planer so far, but performance is exemplary! All the dust, I can see, ended up in the bin! If you have the space in your shop and an existing quality dust collector, and are still using single sage, I highly recommend this jump. If you have a > 3HP collector you can pickup the non XL version for around $150.... or if like me you need the XL you'll probably be stuck spending closer to twice that.... but is far less expensive than a full cyclone upgrade and an amazing performance improvement!