HopefulSSer wrote: Wed Jan 21, 2026 11:27 am
I don't own a SS dust collector so I have no personal experience. But IMO, just from looking at pictures, the little tiny filter bag on top is woefully inadequate. It needs MUCH more surface area, especially if the bag is 1- or 2-micron. A bag double or treble the height would be better, a pleated filter would be much better still. That little bag has got to be a big contributor to reduced airflow.
I don't see a micron rating spec for the filtering on the SS web page. To me that is a critical data point.
Goldie(Bought New SN 377425)/4" jointer/6" beltsander/12" planer/stripsander/bandsaw/powerstation /Scroll saw/Jig saw /Craftsman 10" ras/Craftsman 6" thicknessplaner/ Dayton10"tablesaw(restoredfromneighborstrashpile)/ Mark VII restoration in 'progress'/ 10E[/size](SN E3779) restoration in progress, a 510 on the back burner and a growing pile of items to be eventually returned to useful life. - aka Red Grange
hfmann wrote: Wed Jan 21, 2026 1:44 pm
I used a Stumpy Nubs technique to replace my filter with a Wynn Environmental canister. If I remember right it's MERV15 rated.
I removed the 30(!) micron bag from my Delta DC and installed a pleated filter. The bag filtered out only rocks, cigarette butts, and dead birds....
Greenie SN 362819 (upgraded to 520), Bandsaw 106878, Jointer SS16466, Speed Reducer 031391, Belt Sander SS48854
Mark V 510 51-014654
HopefulSSer wrote: Wed Jan 21, 2026 3:59 pm
I removed the 30(!) micron bag from my Delta DC and installed a pleated filter. The bag filtered out only rocks, cigarette butts, and dead birds....
hfmann wrote: Wed Jan 21, 2026 6:53 pm
ok JPG. How'd you do that?
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Cameras/smart phones . . . store an orientation code of how the device was held when pix was taken.
The forum software IGNORES that code.
IIRC the forum software assumes a raw dump of the pix as the device 'sees' it.
So external help is needed (Irfanview. . .) to rotate the data hence the displayed orientation.
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Goldie(Bought New SN 377425)/4" jointer/6" beltsander/12" planer/stripsander/bandsaw/powerstation /Scroll saw/Jig saw /Craftsman 10" ras/Craftsman 6" thicknessplaner/ Dayton10"tablesaw(restoredfromneighborstrashpile)/ Mark VII restoration in 'progress'/ 10E[/size](SN E3779) restoration in progress, a 510 on the back burner and a growing pile of items to be eventually returned to useful life. - aka Red Grange
(Can't figure out how to post this picture in the right direction. I saved the original in various rotations and they all loaded on their side.)
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It is a nice looking HEPA filter conversion. Well done. Yeah, I suspect you are getting slightly higher airflow with your DC-6000 than Dusty, based on your anemometer measurements, due to less restriction with that Wynn HEPA filter. Dusty was using a Shopsmith filter hood, a 24" I believe.
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