I have watched way to many videos about shop vac dust separators. The ones which they claim catch all the dust which clog the vac filters and the dust which is harmful to your lungs. One guy uses flour in his tests. Flour is not sawdust. This test is so dumb I can not even figure out what he is trying to prove.
Talking about dust just using the size of the particle (microns.....) is OK when it concerns keeping your shop visually clean. If you are talking about the health of your body this is a whole different subject I guess what I am trying to say is visually clean and healthy clean are not necessarily the same thing. A lot of these videos would have you believe they are one and the same.
Out of all the videos I watched I did not see one which addressed the discharge out of the shop vac. I searched and could not find a single HEPA filter for a shop vac. I found one which had HEPA like filter. All of these devices seemed to do one thing which is reduce the number of times you have to clean the filter, not saying this is a bad thing.
Am I going to use one of these devices, yes. I do not like to clean filters either. Do I think it will reduce the amount of dust I have to clean up, some.
Talking about dust just using the size of the particle (microns.....) is OK when it concerns keeping your shop visually clean. If you are talking about the health of your body this is a whole different subject I guess what I am trying to say is visually clean and healthy clean are not necessarily the same thing. A lot of these videos would have you believe they are one and the same.
Out of all the videos I watched I did not see one which addressed the discharge out of the shop vac. I searched and could not find a single HEPA filter for a shop vac. I found one which had HEPA like filter. All of these devices seemed to do one thing which is reduce the number of times you have to clean the filter, not saying this is a bad thing.
Am I going to use one of these devices, yes. I do not like to clean filters either. Do I think it will reduce the amount of dust I have to clean up, some.