Hello all;
I’m setting up a space in my basement for a 5 Pro. Hoping to tap into the collective experience of the community with two possibly weirdo ideas I haven’t seen mentioned anywhere.
I’ve read lots of discussion of torsion boxes and also of intake baffles. Can they not be one and the same? By that I mean couldn’t I leave gaps in the webbing of a torsion box and drill holes in the skin so that the intake air has to take a winding path before it enters the enclosure? Or would the entire torsion box end up amplifying noise like a big drum?
When our house was originally built the washer/dryer were in the basement. We’ve since put them upstairs, but there’s still ducting for the dryer down there. If I were to use a Dust Deputy to get the bigger particles, would it be feasible just to vent the rest of the exhaust into the dryer duct? It’s a pretty long (~25 foot) run of ducting, so I’d worry about buildup, but if the cyclone gets almost all of the non-microscopic dust it seems to me that it might be fine.
The dust deputy removes most of the larger particles but very fine dust goes on through to the dust extraction filter. So venting to the outside sounds good but fine dust is more likey to clog up and cause a restriction. Plus during damp times the fine dust would clog even more. If the dust is extracted outside that sounds good but it will collect and could be a fire hazard right next to your house. In the winter it is not likely to spontaneously combust but in the summer it can.
A friend of mine that did woodworking dumped his saw dust from his collector outside against a wooden fence. This was in Sugar Land Texas close to Houston. One day returning home the fire department was at his house putting out the fire that started in the pile of dust. It burned a section of his fence and set the grass on fire. This was in August the hottest part of Texas weather. The saw dust was composting itself and that generates heat on its own. With the hot temperatures outside and the composting effect it started a fire. That was away from the house so imagine it was right by your house. It is theoretical that a fire could start but do you want to risk your family and home? After that incident he put his sawdust in the trash collection that was hauled away by the garbage collectors.