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Thank you for your nice comment! You made my day :) I enjoyed making this one as this was a gift for a friend. I hope to come out with more fun and interesting projects!

Thank you Brian! Was a fun project

Yea evaporation can be a problem depending on shop environment. I simply have my garage so it is generally cold and gets equalized with outside air since i open and close the door a lot. May not work for people that have more hotter climates or enclosed shops

Thank you!

That is brilliant! Thanks for the tips I'll try them next time.

Thanks for mentioning this. It was a concern that I was thinking about when making this and I forgot to mention in instructions that it may be a good idea to add a small amount of bleach to the water to try and keep it sterile. I've seen some of those water based filtration vacuum cleaners on the market, I think it was called the Rainbow? or the Dolphin? Those use the water as primary filtration and I think the main disadvantage is having to strain out large debris from what is vacuumed like hair or rocks, or the water directly turns into mud which is a real pain in the butt to clean. That may be why they grew out of popularity. That is why I'm thinking the water filtration is almost perfect as a second stage after a 1st stage cyclone since it excels at smaller particles but not ultr…

Thanks for mentioning this. It was a concern that I was thinking about when making this and I forgot to mention in instructions that it may be a good idea to add a small amount of bleach to the water to try and keep it sterile. I've seen some of those water based filtration vacuum cleaners on the market, I think it was called the Rainbow? or the Dolphin? Those use the water as primary filtration and I think the main disadvantage is having to strain out large debris from what is vacuumed like hair or rocks, or the water directly turns into mud which is a real pain in the butt to clean. That may be why they grew out of popularity. That is why I'm thinking the water filtration is almost perfect as a second stage after a 1st stage cyclone since it excels at smaller particles but not ultrafine, and hepa fabric as third stage to catch the remainder.

Actually what you suggest is a better design and what I would do the next time as current design has a small screen in the tube connecting cyclone to motor. There are two lame reasons why I did it this way, one was because it slightly simplifies wet scrubber as i dont need a sealed container with inlet and outlet ports. (I didn't have any lids on the plastic bins to add a port where motor could suck air out of wet scrubber) Second reason would be the marginal sound dampening wet scrubber provides. Provided the wet scrubber was shortened a hair to be able to fit into the water bin and it had a lid, it is really easy to change the order of the stages using pvc pipe, you could even have wet scrubber be first stage if you want to suck up mostly liquids for a wet spill.My next design i want …

Actually what you suggest is a better design and what I would do the next time as current design has a small screen in the tube connecting cyclone to motor. There are two lame reasons why I did it this way, one was because it slightly simplifies wet scrubber as i dont need a sealed container with inlet and outlet ports. (I didn't have any lids on the plastic bins to add a port where motor could suck air out of wet scrubber) Second reason would be the marginal sound dampening wet scrubber provides. Provided the wet scrubber was shortened a hair to be able to fit into the water bin and it had a lid, it is really easy to change the order of the stages using pvc pipe, you could even have wet scrubber be first stage if you want to suck up mostly liquids for a wet spill.My next design i want to try a thein baffle with second stage wet scrub, motor, then third stage hepa fabric filter.

There should be a link just under step 1, link is https://cdn.instructables.com/ORIG/FOP/ZJ99/JC0U65LA/FOPZJ99JC0U65LA.skp

Ahh like a voltage follower circuit? Thanks I will try that out. Didn't quite understand when you mention two steps mode, do you mean two speeds?

Thanks for comment :) I've been hoarding these containers for far too long - I had to do something with them. I'll post another instructables when I get the bugs worked out of the next version.

Hi, For this I actually bought a case of 20 empty CD cases for experimentation. They were about a dollar a piece. Before that I collected some from friends.

That would be great! Thanks for the positive energy :)

hahaha thanks! ... and an electric motor too :) Actually people do build centrifugal fans out of them but they are in the form of "Tesla turbine" which are boundary effect blowers -not enough pressure for a vaccum as they are low pressure / high efficiency.

Thank you! I aim to please :) The next iteration will be even cooler! :)

No problemo let me know if you have any questions. I've onto the next iteration that has secondary water filtration but it isn't ready for prime time yet. Best,Jimmy