Dust Gorilla & I'm tired

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After agonizing over wether to buy the Clear Vue cyclone of the Dust Gorilla for the past 6 months, I ended up with the 3hp DG. It showed up last month and said 3 hours to assemble. (NOT) The darn thing is so big and heavy, 6 hours later plus with the help of my two sons, I got it monted on the wall. I bulit it in sections, the last part to go on was the heaviest, the motor. I needed to go and high jack a scissor lift on the property, so I could lower the motor I had tied to a rope, while my son's lined it up. But that was last month. I had the folks at Oneida do the drawings for the piping. They did a great job, but it came with the cost of the materials. They wanted $2,000 for all the metal, not in my budget. So I had the local A/C guys working in the complex do most of the metal and I filled in some parts from a local sheet metal shop. Total for the metal, was about $600.00 that was a lot better than 2K.

So after I woke up from my nap today, had a 7 am tee time this morning so I was tired and needed my nap :D I went into the shop and got busy on putting up the main trunk lines for the dust collection. I had asked the company that made most of the metal to install it, but they wanted a grand, no thanks. I never done sheet metal work, but was able to cut the pipe with my sawsall and I bought a cheapo rivet gun to assemble the fittings, plus I siliconed & taped the joints, so there should be no leaks. Well this was 6 hours work tonight. 8" & 6" lines, got all the high stuff done and then ran out of gas, I'm beat. [8D] Maybe I can finish it off next week.



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Originally posted by mdburn_em
<br /> What tipped things toward the DG?
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Well they e mailed me with a lower price, plus threw in a couple of things. I guess the biggest reason, it was metal and they have been in business a while.
 
Why not add a 30 gallon metal trash can with the cyclone type lid on it to catch the "big" stuff? I have them in both my vacuum lines and am glad they are there. I find the filter stays a bit cleaner for a while longer and both vacuum systems have impact protection from larger pieces of material flying through the system. [:D]
 
I doubt I make more dust I just don't like to empty the can as often. Besides that, I suffered a mild stroke back Dec 30 and that makes getting around the shop a tad bit harder for me. Oh well, "STUFF" happens! [:D]
 
Nice Install! I bought the Clearvue DC. To me the differences were minor but important to me. The Clearvue is much lighter in weight and and I assembled most of it in my living room and easily carried the pieces to the shop. My son helped me install the motor assembly. The plastic construction for my purposes is fine since dust and sawdust are about all it will ever see. The Onieda weighs in at around 400# so shipping costs might too be a concern. The bottom line is both are good machines and large amounts of dust are hopefully in the past. Let me know how you like it when it's up and running. I have a 30 gal. container for dust and chips and normally empty it when between half and 2/3 full. If you overfill the can everything goes straight to the filters and will clog the entire system. You really have done a nice job on the install.
 
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