Dust Collector Bag Clips

Good tip. I just got the same dust collector. I haven’t had any trouble with mine yet but I’ve only had to change the bag twice. I also have an abundance of black heavy duty trash bags and tried one of those instead of emptying the bag. Those work well, too.

-- Dan, Virginia Beach

Here’s another idea. Get some 1/2” wide adhesive backed foam insulating tape and install around your DC under the band clamp. This will really seal around top of your bag. After I took picture at top I moved the band clamp down on top of the foam tape and got a complete seal.

Adding the extra clips on yours is genius. You might consider a pre-separator and not have to remove and empty you lower bag so often.

-- Rick Gustafson - Lost Creek Ranch - Colorado County, Texas

I like your setup and would like a pre-separator but I’m already tight on workspace. I did put in a thein baffle to keep the big stuff in the bag and not in the cartridge filter. It works very well.

Nice tip. Whoever engineered those stock bag clamps obviously never had to use one.

-- Willie, Washington "If You Choose Not To Decide, You Still Have Made a Choice" - Rush

Now why did I not think of that… great idea..and the use of self adhesive foam is another great idea… got to love this place for all the neat tips and tricks…

-- Don't drink and use power tools @ lasercreationsbylarry.com.au

Great tip. Thanks for posting. I’m all over this one the next time I empty my bag.

-- " I'll try to be nicer, if you'll try to be smarter" gfadvm

Excellent!!

-- "If a man is alone in the forrest with no woman to hear him. Is he still Wrong?" http://www.hawkinswoodworking.com

Viking ,all brilliant – easy! Thank you.
as well as the author of the blog.

Great idea.

My thought is to put a ferrous (metal) band around the waist line of mine, and then use rare earth magnets.

Stock, it isn’t magnetic :-/

-- -- Neil

Great tip on the clips, thanks!

FYI – a bunch of folks (myself included) have had pretty good luck shoe horning a pre-separator into the same footprint as the original base. You can see my build at http://www.cgallery.com/smf/index.php?topic=574.0, its certainly not a perfect build and I’ve had some challenges :D but you can get a pretty good idea of how to orient things and it works fantastically better than the stock setup.