[Arno]

Looks like a good idea, Harry, and locally available, too, but ouch...the price!

Not hard to make one yourself.. You have a welding machine, right??

A big empty steel can, small drum or old bucket with a good lid on it where you weld a the feed tube from the bandsaw angled into the side like the separator on the picture, then connect the suction to the vacuum cleaner to a tube dead in the center of the lid.

The air (and chips) coming into the bucket/can will want to swirl around until it gets to the center to get extracted. As it does so the air velocity drops and the heavy chips drop out and fall to the bottom.

Vacuum cleaner will still get (very) small particles and simple dust, but won't get loaded down with the big chunks so you also keep your suction capacity high. Empty out the can/drum/bucket of chips once in a while and keep going..

Secondary benefit is that the bigger hot chips don't get into the paper bag as much, so less risk of a vacuum cleaner meltdown

Bye, Arno.

[MosquitoMoto]

Good thoughts Arno, thanks, and yes, another excuse to do some fabricating.

I'll go and stare at my saw, work out some dimensions and take it from there.

Thanks for all the useful input, everyone.


Kym