Stu's Shed

The MC1000 is designed as a room air filtration unit, but sometimes a more local collection is useful.  Rather than having to relocate the dust collector itself, Microclene have an optional extension tube for the inlet.

The tube requires (minimal) assembly – you have to stick it together.  To keep the tube from falling off, it has polyurethane stick-on buffers around the top edge that catch on the edge of the lower filter.  Once it is assembled, to remove and replace the extension tube, you need to unscrew the filter.

Now as much as the extension tube would be useful, having to remove the filter each time to install it and again to remove it would become a pain.  So I upgraded it.  Didn’t take much – just a small length of velcro.  I’ve initially replaced the glueline used to stick the tube together, so now I can open up a short amount at the top so the extension tube is easily removed.

Velcro Upgrade

If the stick-on buffers fall off over time, I will simply replace them with some more velcro – might even do it sooner, so I don’t have to keep opening the tube up to remove it. Either way, it sure beats removing and replacing the filter.

MC1000 in "Room Air Filtration" mode

MC1000 in "Localised Collection" mode

The MC1000 will be seen in a video shortly (currently still inside the video camera!) as I talk about primary, secondary and tertiary protection from airborne dust. For the video I used the Festool Termite, and you should see its dust production capabilities!!

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