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Important Announcement
July 29, 2010

Clear Vue will be closed down until the week of August 9th. This week the shop is being packed up for the move to its new location in Kent, WA. Please expect delays in correspondence.

 

 

We would like to acknowledge a special debt of gratitude to Bill Pentz for his work in the field of dust collection. For those of you who arrived at this site from somewhere other than Bill's site, we strongly advise you to go to his site and study a little before jumping into anything. Our Clear Vue Cyclone is built according to Bill's designs and should be used in conjunction with the rest of the parts that he recommends. On our links page, we include links to Bill's site, Wynn Environmental who supplies the after cartridge filters and links to several of our customer's sites. We are currently supplying complete units that include our own 15" impellers and Leeson 5hp motors.

This whole venture came about as a result of Matt Morgano building a new woodworking shop, he started researching dust collection (his father had a 2 hp bag type “dust blower”) and came upon Bill Pentz’s web site. Together with Matt’s dad, Ed Morgano, they built a cyclone according to Bill’s plans and when it was finished it worked so well that they just simply had to build one for Ed’s workshop. Beyond that, Ed’s curiousity caused him to see what was going on inside, so he decided to build one out of clear plastic. “Well, let me tell you, this was a great thing.” Ed commented. “Now, not only do I have a dust “collector”, but I have a “Clear Vue” of what is going on inside of the unit.” After having built Bill's design and seeing how well it worked, they were thoroughly convinced that “this is the best dust collector design that money can buy”. No false claims, it just worked great! They saw first hand that it performed as Bill said. After about two months of projects in Matt’s’ shop they took the filter rack off to inspect it. Other than a very small amount of fine dust (there wasn't enough to discolor the white filters), it was virtually clean!

Filter Media After 2 months
This is the actual filter after 2 months of normal shop projects that included building cabinets and tables for Matt's shop and MDF board parts for the cyclones.
Below is a picture showing the advanced features of Bill's design with notes about why each one makes this system better than the others.
Cyclone with advantages listed
In short, Bill's design produces a unit with less turbulence, better separation and less static pressure drop. This means that you will have to clean your filters a lot less often and you will get more CFM at your machines -where you need it.

With our Clear Vue Cyclone you have several more advantages. You can see what is going on at all times. If you let your trash bin get full you'll know it immediately. Plastic doesn't rust or dent and it's quieter than metal. In short, we believe our unit is the best small shop woodworker’s cyclone you can buy. 

 

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