Anyone made a Thein seperator in a spare systainer?

[Julian Tracy]

The Oneida solution is huge and $$$.  Over at W.net forums, the Thein design is very popular.  I'm thinking maybe you could make a mini one in a systainer 4.  Though it wouldn't have a ton of capacity, it could be easily emptied and would probably hold as much as a CT22 bag and a half.

And a sys4 wouldn't be too tall, so the bulk wouldn't be as bad as the Oneida solution. 

What do you guys think?

JT

 

[Kevin Stricker]

You need a cylinder for a thein seperator, but you could mount a cyclone onto a systainer with no problems.  You just have to make the systainer airtight as any leak will make its separation ineffective.  Also you can collapse a 5 gal bucket with a CT, so you prob will need some stiffeners.

If you don't care about the looks you can buy a dust deputy for $39.99 right now and build a seperator with two drywall buckets.  Mount the lower one to your CT and you are golden.

 

[Julian Tracy]

I don't care for the spindly design of the dust deputy.  Looks like it'd get broken onsite in the first week.  I'm not going for matched looks with the systainer idea, it's more for a bullet proof design that fits that vac perfectly and can be stacked with all of the other tools when not in use.

Kindof like the little aircompressors with the regulator hanging out exposed ready to have a 2x land on them.

I don't think of my CT22 as being all that powerful, my Fein vac seemed to have much more tank-sucking suction than my CT22.

JT

 

[Kevin Stricker]

Put the cyclone in it's own systainer, you could use the extra space for hose storage.

A cyclone or Thein seperator need a cylinder to work, you are separating dust from air with gravity and centrifugal force.  In a box the air would constantly become turbulant and would not seperate.

I have both a Thein seperator and a dust deputy on different vacs.  Neither go onsite. Both options are way too bulky for me.

 

[Julian Tracy]

Obviously, the build would start with a cylindrical shape insert in the systainer.  It'd be a non-starter in the square housing.

Possibly, you'd be able to use the empty corners to store the vac elbow needed to feed the vac's port.  The tool hose port could be a simply flush top mount port.

The idea is to use the idea, with a smaller capacity onsite to save on them darn $7 CT22 bags.  Especially when planing or sawing.

Julian

 

[Alan m]

hi all .
i have a bigger version of a thein baffel beside by wall mounted boom arm. it works very well.
i have been thinking of building a smaller one for site work in a systainer aswell.
idea 1.   
i was thinking of getting a sys 3 (OR 4 )  in a classic design and use 2 risers (or what ever thay are called ) . the top riser would have a pipe going straight into the middle (in plan view) and have a 90 bend on it , coming out of the bottom int the second riser a bit.
the second riser in the middle will have a cylender in it (or elipse as the sys is a rectangle) to create the rotation. a pipe for the vac hose ould come out of the cylinder at a tangent to it and out flush with the sys .the vac hose will fit into this. the baffel plate will attach at the bottom of this riser

idea 2
this is the same exept that i would cut out the top of a sys3 /4 and the bottom of a sys2 .
i might even use a t loc for this. the advantage of this idea over idea 1 is that the 2 halfs can be seperated easily