our Cyclone dust collectors worth the money and are they any good don't go
anywhere because I'm going to show you how to build one to
save yourself a few quid and then we're going to put it to the test
steel you're fixing kit you're not some boats Etc and two different sets of adapter rings on top of
that you're going to need some form of Bin now you can buy a plastic one but if you buy a plastic one
you're also going to need a release valve but in my case what I've done is I've bought a metal one
for me I think it's more practical because it's more sturdy take more of a beating but if you
get one of these make sure it's got the spring seal metal catch around the outside to ensure
that you get a really really good Tight Seal so where do we go from here so the first place to
start is finding the centre of your lid for your bin you want to find a centre because this keeps
the centre of gravity in the right place and keeps the whole suction equidistant within the system
to find the centre it's quite easy on a bin like this because it's got a handle on it
the handle runs straight through the middle so all I have to do is take a steel rule
take the line between the two points of the handle
and this one's quite as flexible steel which does help which means all you have to do is just draw
a straight line in the middle then it's just a case of measuring to find your centre point it
doesn't have to be exactly bang on but it's always good to get it close now we have my
centre point if you don't have handles on your dust collector check out this video
here and I'll show you how to find your centre Point in a different way so the next thing you
need to do before you cut the hole is double check the size of the exit hole now to do that
you can use a tape measure you can use a steel or you can use a set of callipers
which very simply just fits into the inside of the hole trying to just point and that
will come out at 61 millimetres which is exactly what it says on the template that came with it
from that point you can decide on which size hole saw you want now you don't want to go too small or
in fact you don't want to go smaller than the given size but you can go a little bit bigger
which is good because I don't have one that size my whole thought is very slightly larger
now with these you also want to make sure that if you do go for a larger one it's not too big
so you can see here is literally just on the edge of the plastic because if you go
too far you're going to start to infringe on the seal and you're going to lose your vacuum
now what you also need to do just to make life so much easier is to drill Pilots
so if we come over to the bin I'm going to do a pilot hole in the centre
and then once I found the centre I'm going to line the centre point up on here on the
template with the hole which will then allow me the points for the nuts and the balls
take the bit out if you take some tape
this will just make things a little bit easier for in a minute
just put a couple pieces on your templates it's just ready to go
and then you take your drill bit that you just used and without going through your hands
where you end up with having a plaster on your thumb like I've got poke it through the middle
and then you can just put that through your hole that you just drilled
and then just tape your template in place taking that back out again
so isn't exactly the right position it's a cylindrical drum so there's no left right or
any straight angles to get your dust arrester to uh to fit because it doesn't really matter
put your drill bit back in Mark here fixing points for the bolts
they're already laid out for you
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what you use and because of the oil it'll help just remove some of that
and be careful because it is very very sharp around here it's another reason for wearing gloves
do you know slice your fingers up in fact you could just brush it straight
through the hole because after all it is a bin so this is the bit that we all want
to do that we really need to get on with and it's attaching the Cyclone to the lid
and there we have it Loosely in place
to take in the appropriate tools depending on what your fixings are I've got a Allen
key here and an eight mil socket so I'm just going to put the Allen key in the top
holding it all together I'm just going to wind it up using the ratchet
so we have recycling attached to the lid so I'm going to very quickly find myself a
file just to take these bird edges off and then reattach it seal back up Let the catch back on
watch your fingers on these lovely and tight now I've got very I've got two different types of
adapters that came with a cyclone that just so happens
that I have an old set of hoses which have an attachment on the end which
fit perfectly in there so I'm going to use one hose which would go to the vacuum and one hose
which will do the sucking this one go on the top if I just make some space on the table here
is my life nicely cleaned out Dyson vacuum which hopefully yeah there we go perfect
so just have a quick go just to check that the airflow does suck through
that's definitely sucking some air so if I attach the hose on the other end now ordinarily I would
use my normal vacuum but my normal vacuum has got a filter in it it's got a dust bag in it and it's
just it's full of rubbish it wouldn't be a fair comparison whereas by doing this not only will we
hopefully want to take the lid back off afterwards see the debris falling in there because this has
got a clear tube on it we'll instantly see if there's any rubbish been sucked into the vacuum
rather than being dropped into the bin but what I will do so I'm just going to take my vacuum apart
so what I'm going to do is basically suck the rubbish out of this vacuum into this one you
see because all the mess and the filter on this it really would be unfair unless I actually spent the
time cleaning all the filter off there's always a fun part is putting these things down without
making too much mess but as you can see in here there's brick dust there's polystyrene there's
probably some wood chips in the mugs there as well somewhere it had bits of bits of fluff so
let's get the vacuum on there and just see how good it really is
so I'm just going to shove that in there now this is a bit awkward obviously because the
Dyson doesn't have an on off trigger whereby it stays on so I'm a bit handicapped in away
here because I'm gonna have to try and do two things at once so please just bear with me
and try not to knock the bin over at the same time
right so what I will do as well is I'm gonna just disconnect the vacuum here
and I'm going to put it onto the high flow rate to boost
for no other reason really I just want to see how it's going to work
let's see if I can kill the vacuum foreign
just holding it very gently above I'm not even sticking it into the rubbish
and you can see it's sucking up all that rubbish
surprisingly quiet actually
um if you look at the cyclone I don't know
if you can see the the rubbish on the inside of the Cyclone spinning around
so it's obviously been dumped into the bucket
and that's what happens when the vacuum gets blocked you've actually crushed the bin
and as you can see here if I take this off it hasn't stopped all of the rubbish coming
through but it has done a pretty decent job I mean that's all pretty small particles that's all the
the brick dust and where I've been chasing out in the past um using that vacuum so let's just
have a look at my now very crushed bin um I did not expect that one to happen
wow look at the dust coming off of there
but we can see that all the rubbish that I've sucked out of my vacuum bag has collected within
this bin so is very dusty and horrible so it does prove the concept that the Cyclone yeah excuse me
um it does prove the concept that a cyclone does work and it will help prevent your vacuum
filter from getting clogged up quite so quickly and filling up your dust bag therefore being
allow you to chase walls do cord running longer without the filters blocking up
but having just seen what I've done to this dust bin by crushing it
okay
I would definitely recommend putting in an anti-crush valve
which I'll put a little image here and uh yeah definitely get an anti-crush valve
because I've now pretty much written that bin off I'm gonna have to buy another one but uh
at least we know that that happens so Calamity slam strikes again I've just put my knee in the
dust filter bag of my vacuum another thing for me to tidy up and clean in the minute but I've
proved that Cyclones do work inside my now very crushed bin you can see all the all the rubbish
and inside the vacuum it's dusty but there's no large particles in there whatsoever
it's all that all it leads me to do now is to uh get back online order myself a new metal bin
and the valve released to go with it so that to prevent that from happening again but it just goes
to show that metal bins are probably just as soft as the plastic ones especially when the vacuum
gets blocked thank you for watching I hope you found this entertaining I certainly found it well
quite the crushing experience I'll see you on the next one