All,
Thought I should pass along a recent learning I experienced with my DW735.
The unit has a powered chip exhaust. I hooked it up to my dust collecter – small PennState unit with a filter cartridge on top and plastic collection bag on bottom.
I was planning a bunch of cherry and afterwards I noticed that dust collector wasn’t pulling much flow. This seemed odd because the filter catridge was brand new! I took the unit apart and was shocked to find that the inside of the catridge was packed solid with wood chips! It took an hour to dig the chips out and clear the cartidge.
I added a garbage can separator to the system and it’s working fine now – and it’s a lot more convenient.
Moral of the story…don’t hook your 735 straight to your filter cartidge dust collector.
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Wow! I don't have a 735 (no harm dreaming though) but will keep that story "on file." Nothing lazy about that DC set-up, eh?
PS: How much hose was between the planer and the DC when that happened?
forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
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Edited 5/6/2005 11:59 am ET by forestgirl
There was about 6 feet of hose between the DW735 and the dust collector. The DW735 powered exhaust was definitely the culprit.BTW - cleaning the inside of a cartridge dust collector is quite a hassle. The chips get wedged into the filter pleats. I had to use my shop vac on the inside of the catridge and blow compressed air from the outside to dislodge the chips - what a mess!
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