Making a particle filter that doesn't wear out for my plasma cutter

Support these projects on patreon: https://patreon.com/stuffmadehere Check out the subreddit: https://tinyurl.com/smhere When I was designing the downdraft for my plasma cutter I was concerned that it might eject too much metal dust out of my shop and into my driveway. It turns out that I was right and as I've been cutting more I've noticed a real uptick in accumulated metal on the ground. To address this problem I built a filtering system designed to remove the bigger particles from the exhaust. Since I'm not concerned with smoke and really extremely fine vapor I was able to make a "solid state" filter that takes advantage of the inability of a heavy particle to follow a tight corner. It was inspired by cyclonic seperators on larger shop vacuum systems. From the testing that I've done it seems to work quite well and I'm pretty happy with the results. These videos usually take a ton of work and a lot of money in tools and materials. I've made a patreon if you're interested in supporting the creation of these projects: https://www.patreon.com/stuffmadehere Here's some of the tools that I use in this video: Hypertherm powermax 45xp with machine torch: https://amzn.to/2zfoyAv Hypertherm fine cut consumables (great for sheet metal) https://amzn.to/34SjMom 100mm linear stage for plasma Z axis - easier than building: https://amzn.to/3cAeEb3 Anemometer - cheap but seems to work well: https://amzn.to/2ROtkeL Downdraft fans - these things chooch!: https://amzn.to/2VKFbM5 The best marker ever. Always in my pocket: https://amzn.to/3ewHGtL Cyclonic dust collector: https://amzn.to/3ezyghf