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Inventables: The Hardware Store for Designers. The Quest for an Affordable Dust-Collecting Cyclone, Part 3: More DIY Options and a Clarification. In Part 1 of The Quest for an Affordable Dust-Collecting Cyclone, I got one of the facts backwards; luckily Stuart Deutsch (newly-minted PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, congrats Stu!) Over at ToolGuyd wrote in to set the record straight. I'd incorrectly stated that "most of the dust (and particularly the fine particles) gets sucked away by the vortex," but in fact it's the reverse. As Deutsch points out, Generally, cyclones are more efficient at separating out larger and heavier debris and particles. Deutsch has also written a more extensive explanation of how dust cyclones work, and in our correspondence, kindly pointed the way towards two other DIY dust cyclone options: The first, which is pictured at the top of this entry, is the Mini Cyclone Bucket Dust Collector, an Instructable written by a guy named Steli.

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