Today, while half the work force is away at a meeting, the vacuum system was continued to be created and assembled. The various holes and boxing were created, the motor units mounted and electrically tested, and each module having rubber draught excluder stuck down around all the edges to seal the various chambers.
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The two boxes are now connected together, the vortex and “big” stuff collection box and the motor units and the “small” stuff collection box as you can see in the photo.
We have hooked one motor up for a real test run and oh wow, what a suck! Grin! We went around the workshop and vacuumed lots of surfaces, large pieces, dust and wood bits and pieces and all was sucked up. Opening up the final “small” stuff collection box to inspect the filters and what was in there, and it revealed very little stuff! Just a few particles blown into the corners and a little bit on the paper filters themselves and that it! Very good indeed!! Excellent Stuff!
So to finish off this little project, we just need to put in dampening material inside the motor unit chamber to reduce the bouncing noise and put on a lid with switches to control one or both motors, and maybe need to put a box around the vortex module as well to keep the noise down too. We will see!