Basement to a REAL Basement Shop #2: Dust Collection
Wow! It has been a very busy couple of weeks. Last year I purchased the 2hp Harborfreight dust collector. I knew I was not going to use it in it’s stock configuration, I knew I wanted to set it up like Jay Bates did. So when I first got the DC I crammed it in a spot out of the way, to the right of the DC was the chimney, to the left was a bunch of Junk. I moved it to the NW corner of the basement. The blower is mounted on top of the factory ring and is exsausted to the outside (I’m not considered with heat loss the DC is on for short periods of time). The ring is mounted on top of a steal trash can. The majority of the plumbing was done with 4” sch ...
