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Blower -> Dust collector?

Blower -> Dust collector?

Blower -> Dust collector?

(OP)
Hi, I've installed a piece of grinding equipment in the factory where I work that has a vacuum bed to hold down the work pieces going into the machine and a dust collector to collect the debris inside the grinding cabinet.  The vacuum for the vacuum bed is created by a standalone blower with a hose running to the vacuum bed.
Unfortunately, the output from the blower also has some debris in it and it's causing it to clog the bag filter I've attached to the end of the blower output.  Eventually the bag filter will spring a leak, much to my dismay.

I've considered running a hose from the output of the blower into a separate input of the standalone dust collector, but I'm not sure whether it will hurt the dust collection suction of the dust collector.  Can anyone lead me in the right direction?

Thanks,
Andy

RE: Blower -> Dust collector?

Can you make a masking template to seal off unused portions of the vacuum bed so debris does not enter the vacuum flow?

RE: Blower -> Dust collector?

(OP)
Not a bad idea I suppose; but in this case the entire vacuum bed needs to be used.  I've accepted the debris in the vacuum flow as a fact of life; even if I went to great measures, I still think *some* debris would be in the vacuum flow, and I can't exhaust any debris into the factory.

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