Comments on: JET’s Vortex Dust Collector

By: docwks

docwks — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:43:04 +0000

I’ll bet a stainless steel mixing bowl from the resturant supply would work and be cheap or a set from Costco and give your wife the ones you don’t use.

By: Larry B

Larry B — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 22:58:42 +0000

Received an Email today from Monique Murray (Monique.Murray@waltermeier.com), Consumer Relations/Vise Tech at Walter Meier Inc. and was informed that Jet has no plans to market a Vortex retrofit kit for the DC-1100 or plans to sell the cone assembly parts. Those of us that own a Jet DC-1100 and purchased the retro Canister Kit will not be able to add the new Vortex Cone.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:07:02 +0000

I’m guessing that the Thien would do better, he didn’t design a partial drop slot without reason.

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 02:29:47 +0000

I would like to see a side by side shootout of a Jet Vortex, and the same unit with a Thein baffle separator put before the same unit.

In both cases what I really want to know is how much fine dust is put in the filter!

If an overkill shootout was done, compare a Clearvue vs other cyclone units too.

I am guessing the real thing to do is to have similar dust (same quantity of fine dust and coarser chips) by weight. Then weigh the amount of the collected in each unit to use as a comparison.

But then again, … all that is in my dreams…

By: Katoom

Katoom — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:45:18 +0000

It would be a major benefit to those of us who own a JET dust collector for JET to make a retrofit kit available for the Vortex cone. It will be a shame if they don’t.

About five years after JET came out with a built-in remote control for their dust collectors, they made a retrofit remote control available. I just bought one. I hope they don’t wait that long to come out with the Vortex kit.

By: Tom H

Tom H — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:45:27 +0000

A cone can be easily fabricated from a piece of sheet metal. Cut out a circle, remove a pie shaped piece on one side(the smaler the wedge, the lower the slope), and fasten the two edges together with sheetmetal screws or rivets.

I have a flat baffle in my collector now, which is only partially effective, and am going to try the cone shape.

By: dhess719

dhess719 — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:18:51 +0000

I wonder if a cooking WOK would be closer to the cone shape than a salad bowl, it might also be heavy duty enough to stand up the constant air flow.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 04:06:45 +0000

Some people in the Phil Thien website have been putting a baffle in their DC’s for awhile now already, I was skeptical at first also. Anyway, I’ve always thought that it was better to separate the dust wood chips and dust, plus anything else that might get sucked up before it reaches the impeller and filter. I have a 1 1/2 hp Delta 50-760 dust collector that I added an onboard side inlet separator too. I luv the setup, it works great, and I wouldn’t ever consider going back to a generic style DC such as the JET. Here is a link address to my Delta. http://www.cgallery.com/smf/index.php?PHPSESSID=bf3b82af538f292846de0d96a75f72ae&topic=451.0

By: marco cecala

marco cecala — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:38:08 +0000

I started using a trash can separator because of what a pain the bag R&R process is. Here is the best I have been able to come up with.

Removal; Push the ring and bag in from the outside of the machine with the canister off. reach inside and help by gripping the ring. Pull to the center and twist. As the ring gets smaller bring the other hand in from the bottom and lower the ring as soon as it can clear the housing. Keep the ring flexed and pull it off the bag.

Installation; Use 4 large metal binder clips from the office supply store. Clip the bag to the ring from the top 90 degrees apart. Flex the ring and place it in the housing. Push in from the bottom of the housing and remove the clips one at a time. I store the clips on the silver rotating bar on top of the canister.

By: xMike

xMike — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 23:29:50 +0000

You’ve mastered how to get the snap ring IN? Please share. I spend at least 5 minutes mumbling to myself that this can’t be THIS HARD before I get the ring to snap in with either no gap of plastic bag that has fiendishly escaped the “snap” of the ring or alternatively without a foot of the plastic bag shoved up inside, wasting 10 good inches of bag capacity.