Cyclone Throne

Dealing with sawdust.

Turns out that messing around with wood is pretty messy. Things get pretty sawdusty, pretty quickly. To get on top of this dusty dilemma I set about assembling a Cyclone Throne.

Being partial to a 3D print or two I thought I’d print my own cyclonic dust separator and put together a trolley to house the collecting bin and hoover. How hard could that be?

First things first, I had to find a model on thingiverse then scale and slice it to fit on my printer. And cross my fingers that my opened and very old filament still works.

With my advance video editing skills I put together a few time lapses of the some of the prints:

Time lapse fun times

After everything had been printed it needed to be glued together and a few gaps had to filled. After a lick of paint and attaching it to an old fermentation bin lid the sawdust collecting bin was complete. A few pics of the process:

The next step was to make a trolley to fit the hoover and the collection bin. This basically involved cobbling together some mdf and old legs from a desk of some sort. It wasn’t pretty but it kinda worked.