Well, a little OT, but what the hell!
Having just moved the shop to a new building, the current level of noise from the machinery, and especially the dust collector, is just about driving us crazy.
The dust collector is a recirculating bag type. It's about 9' long with two 8' filter bags coming out the top of 2' diameter collars which have 4' plastic bags attached at the bottom to collect the dust and chips. The motor is 7.5 HP 3Ph and it SCREAMS.
Since it's located in the center of the shop floor near a column, my thought is to make an hanging enclosure out of semi rigid OC 703 2" thick fiberglass panels, which I found for a good price. The absorption coefficient looks like it should work well.
So what do you guys think. I have to leave access to the bottom bags for disposal. I thought to surround the top filter bags with these panels and then fill in some of the surrounding areas with it also. I may also buy extra to make wall panel absorbers with, as needed.
Pete
Having just moved the shop to a new building, the current level of noise from the machinery, and especially the dust collector, is just about driving us crazy.
The dust collector is a recirculating bag type. It's about 9' long with two 8' filter bags coming out the top of 2' diameter collars which have 4' plastic bags attached at the bottom to collect the dust and chips. The motor is 7.5 HP 3Ph and it SCREAMS.
Since it's located in the center of the shop floor near a column, my thought is to make an hanging enclosure out of semi rigid OC 703 2" thick fiberglass panels, which I found for a good price. The absorption coefficient looks like it should work well.
So what do you guys think. I have to leave access to the bottom bags for disposal. I thought to surround the top filter bags with these panels and then fill in some of the surrounding areas with it also. I may also buy extra to make wall panel absorbers with, as needed.
Pete
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