There is a larger aliexpress cyclone, but my order was cancelled twice so I am assuming that they couldnt ship it at the time. Might be worth trying again I guess.
Thanks - can you please link me to this larger one you have spotted?
Interesting how you found the WD-6 not sucky enough...
The tooline unit you got, was it like the Tooline DC10002 or something?
What cyclone did you end up going with? something like those Aliexpress/TM units? They only seem to have a 50mm port on them, and this Tooline unit has a much bigger hose. High Pressure vs High volume, I assume...
Any more detail on your setup I would love to hear about. Thanks
The problem with the WD 6 is how skinny the accessory hose is. It's perfectly OK with a sander, drill or my small vacuum table, but no good with the bigger machines. It may be that replacing the skinny accessory hopse with normal diameter hose would make it work a lot better. But I actually wanted a second vacuum anyway.
I bought the DC-10002, from M10. It's only 1,100W but it moves a good air volume. I have a DIY cyclone made by myself - with a Thien baffle (like this) so I simply adapted it to suit. MY DIY cyclone may have been part of the problem, but it worked well with small tools and it work wells with the tooline unit. It's pretty much identical to the build in the video I linked to above. I'm halfway through rebuilding my saw table into a saw table, router table and cupboard unit, so it's hard to be more descriptive than that. The input hose on the cyclone is 100 mm and I built myself some quick connectors (copied from Izzy Swann's YouTube channel), so I can easily move it between the saw router table and drop saw; or use it as a general vacuum cleaner.
Whatever you go with, once you have it all set up, do the incense test: Switch your system on, light a stick of incense and hold it near all of your connections, joins, seals etc. If you have any leaks, the smoke will be drawn toward them.
I have clear vue cyclone CV06 mini system for the past 5 years now and I swear by it. Best thing since slice bread. It is connected to a cheap ryobi $100 vacuum cleaner. I used the cyclone to suck all the dust out when i was stripping my house to bare timber.
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