Home Depot Bucket Cyclone Dust Separator

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The intent of this project is to make an efficient cyclone dust separator from a Home Depot bucket. There are a billion DIY versions of this. This is mine. Currently there are two parts (hose adapters still need to be added): 1) The vacuum inlet port (Vacuum Inlet.STL) 2) The Dust inlet port (Home Depot Bucket Adapter.STL) The vacuum inlet is a remix of http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:119410. I basically separated the inlet, made it bigger, and added a bottom ring. The intent is that it gets bolted and glued to the inside of the bucket lid. An adapter will have to be made to fit your hose into this, but this is where the vacuum hooks into. The dust inlet port (not the flipped one - Home Depot Bucket Adapter Flipped.STL) is designed to fit to the right side of the dust inlet, just about 1cm from the rim. You'll have to cut a hole and trim off the remaining ribs from the outside of the bucket, then bolt/glue the vacuum port on. I included another model (Home Depot Bucket Adapter Flipped.STL) to be used if you want to mount everything to the bottom of the bucket. This model is NOT ideally fit to the bucket (I just flipped it along the x-axis), but the material should be flexible enough to bend to the shape of the bucket wall. The advantage to putting everything on the bottom of the bucket is that you don't have to trim any ribs, and you can mount this bucket onto a second one, for easy dust removal. I like the convenience of the lid and the space saving, so I'm mounting things to the top. This is a WIP. It's being printed as we speak, and will take a long time to print. So I'll update it when I know more. Once I get the hose adapters made, I'll add them too.