Check out the Mullet
George VondriskaDescription
You gotta protect your lungs from dust. Shop vacuums work great, but dust can QUICKLY clog the filter on a shop vacuum. If air can’t get out, air can’t get in, so performance drops off really fast.
What’s a Mullet?
The Mullet High-Speed Cyclone Dust Collector is a cyclonic separator that goes in line between your shop vacuum and the thing you’re grabbing dust from. Its shape creates a cyclonic action that, according to the manufacturer, separates out 99% of the dust and debris so only clean air goes into your shop vacuum. That’s what saves the filter. No dust build up restricting the airflow.
One-piece construction
A very cool aspect of the M5 is that it’s all one piece. If the cyclone you add to your shop vacuum leaks, you’ll lose performance. The Mullet system is rotary molded, with no seams in the main unit.
Compatibility
The variable on the M5 is the height of the port that connects the unit to your shop vacuum. So, the vertical pipe that’s part of that connection comes to you uncut. You cut it in the right spot, insert the T-fitting, and you’ll be perfectly aligned with the port on your vac.
Connections with fasteners
The connections are held in place with small thumb screws. This is great, because we ALL use the shop vacuum hose like a leash to pull the vac around the shop. The thumbscrew is going to keep everything connected.
Know the difference
As you’re setting up dust collection to keep the air clean in your shop, make sure you know the difference between a shop vacuum and a dust collector.
Dust in the shop is always an issue. Anything you can do to better deal with dust is a good thing, so let's talk about the Mullet and it's a cyclonic dust separator. Am I getting that right? That's right, yeah. So it's a high-speed cyclone dust collector and what that does is we've got a cyclone and a dump bin that's connected together to eliminate all the seams and gaskets and bolts of assembly that you have with other cyclones. Well, and so one of the things we're comparing to is like if it's just a cap that sits on a five gallon bucket there's probably eleventy-billion leaks where those two connect. So this is not blow molded, rotary molded. It's rotational molded, that's right. So this is all one piece. All one piece with a rigid PVC connection as well, that allows that airflow to go right into your vacuum but it separates over 99% of sawdust just like traditional saw cyclones do, but it captures it in this easy-to-dump dump bin base as opposed to, right, getting it into the filter of the vacuum. Now you can cut to fit this PVC pipe to fit any brand or size of shop vacuum on the market. And that's, so you've got instructions with it. We were talking earlier, so this pipe comes as one piece. That's right. The end-user's gonna put that tee in there. That's right. And make that work for their shop vacuum. And then you're just cutting to fit whatever height of shop vacuum that you have on the inlet side. And then once this is full, quick disconnect here, open the porthole, dump. And dump it out, that's right, and with the integrated casters, this rolls around in a shop with ease so you can pull it out, work on whatever you're working on at the table saw, throw it back under the work bench when you're finished. Well, and the other thing I think is smart is, I think for all of us, this is a leash, so you've gotta connect here so that that's positively connected and you're not gonna constantly disconnect as you're pulling this across the shop. You've seen a lot of cyclones and bucket assemblies that have bungee straps, ratchet straps, kind of holding 'em together. With this direct connection and these thumb screws here, you do keep it nicely connected the whole time. Yeah, it's one solid unit. What a cool cyclonic product and it's gonna do a great job of keeping dust out of your shop vac so you're not emptying that filter all the time.
What’s the price? Can I buy it through Woodworkers? Why don’t you have a section where I can buy it through this video