I bought this small dust collector
for a hundred and fifty bucks
a week ago and I thought I'd make a short video
comparing this one to my big one.
What I like and don't like about this one.
The best feature of this thing has got to be the price.
I only paid a hundred and fifty dollars for it.
And it has a 1 horsepower sealed motor on it.
Although at only 7.4 amperes, I'm not quite sure if
it's quite 1 horsepower, but still, it's a good motor
and it's got the switch right on there.
And if I had to buy this motor separately,
it would probably cost me twice as
much as the whole dust collector.
It has a 4 inch port but unfortunately with this
protective screen on there
to prevent large debris from damaging the impeller.
And that's a bit of a problem because
if you ran this with a planer
that would get plugged up in no time.
The blower's a bit on the small side
and I measured the pressure from it
and it does about 17 centimeters
that's about 6 to 7 inches of head.
Whereas this one here will do 20 centimeters
or about 8 inches of head. So this one has quite a bit more
suction than this one.
The airflow on this one is all right, though.
It has this plastic bag for catching the shavings and
getting that on there with a strap is really quite difficult.
So, maybe also not a good idea for planer shavings because
it's just too hard to empty this.
The filter bag is quite good though.
It's a 1 micron filter bag.
And I tested it with my air quality monitor
and after I used it a bit and sort of seasoned the filter
that is, get lots of sawdust embedded in it
it's gotten quite good at filtering out micro-particles.
The unit came with some casters that were meant to be mounted
underneath here and not even all the way in the corner.
In fact the mounting holes seem to
be fairly inconsistently placed.
So I just think they put those on there freehand.
It would have been way too tippy with the wheels under here.
So I put these boards on here to
essentially put these wheels on outriggers
and that way, when you push it
around, it's not gonna tip on you.
The unit didn't include any hose
so I had to buy this hose
separately for twenty-five dollars.
And that came with this plate for putting it on the machine.
I added a dust port to my homemade table saw
so I could hook-up the dust collector like this.
So when I turn it on, it really sucks a lot of air in the front.
The filter is quite effective at catching the micro-particles.
So right I have about 3600 and 1400 on the
fine and course count and lets turn it on.
And now as we're getting more air coming out of the bag
we can see the particle counts, on here, dropping.
But compared to this big one
this one cleans the air much more so.
Let's give this one a few seconds.
A thing I don't like about this one so much is
that the dust really has no where to settle
so some of it just keeps getting swirled around.
So I made this cross shape piece in here
to try to slow down the wind towards the bottom.
But I'm not sure if it's working all that well.
So here's a cool test. Dust collector versus dust collector.
So I've got this small one sucking out of the big one.
But the big ones not turned on.
So now let's turn on the big one.
Show you what happens.
As you can see, the big one is able to out-suck the small one.
And the irony is that this
supposedly has a 1 horsepower motor.
And the big one only has a 3/4 horsepower motor.
But the big one sucks better so
it must have a much better, more efficient impeller on it.
Now, with the little one turned off
the big one sure is good at sucking that small one empty.
I made a sort of vacuuming nozzle for it because
it's one of the things I wanted to do was to
suck the very fine dust off of the garage floor.
After vacuuming the floor, I realized I had a bit of a leak
where the bag had attached. So, that's a definite down-side
of this type of dust collector.
But overall, for a hundred and fifty bucks
I really can't complain.