I bought an inexpensive Walthers Cornerstone kit many years ago: Dust Collector Accessory #933-3113. There are 2 sprues with parts for 2 dust collectors, but there is no picture of the completed kit and no instructions, just the parts in a plastic bag. The kit isn’t offered anymore so I can’t get instructions from the website.
Some of the assembly seems straightforward and obvious, but there are some parts that I just don’t know what to do with.
So, has anyone out there built this kit? Can you post or send photos of the completed dust collector?
Thanks up front,
Jeff
When I google, I see a tiny picture on Walthers that looks like an overhead crane. The Ebay link looks a lot like a different Walthers model
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Walthers-933-3510-HO-Wall-Mount-Industrial-Dust-Collectors-Kit-pkg-3/132903634
Yea, that’s all I could find. So, a dust collector would either be fastened to a building, or free standing.
Maybe if the OP could post a picture of what he has, we can figure it out.
Mike.
EDIT: Just found this on Ebay. Looks like a free standing unit.
https://www.ebay.com/p/Walthers-Cornerstone-Dust-Collector-Accessory-in-HO-Scale/1622964268
Mike.
EDIT #2. The bottom parts on the sprue would be the stands/frame work that supports the dust collectors. They would on their own little concrete piers, and placed close to the building.
The rest is pretty self explaining, the two collector halves go together, and then place in the stand, and run the piping as needed.
Hope this helps:
Cyclone_crop by Edmund, on Flickr
I cut the legs off the framework. There’s a down-pipe, with the ball at one end, which goes at the bottom of the funnel into the roof flashing (not shown in my photo).
Good Luck, Ed
That’s for the wall mount version Ed, he has the free-standing.
Mike.
EDIT: Check the Ebay I linked to. That what he has.
Aren’t those dust collectors the same as the one’s that go on the cornerstone Bakery/background buildings? If so…get the instructions for those kits and it should show how they go together:
They are on the building on the left.
Take Care! [:D]
Frank
Thanks Big Daddy, those dust collectors are found on the Centennial and Red Wing mill kits but those aren’t the ones I have. Jeff
I jumped in too fast!
Jeff, what parts do you have left over? The wide-radius elbow seems to be left up to the installer’s “discretion”.
[:$] Ed
Mbinsewl, What you found on Ebay is exactly what I have. The supports are obvious, two halves of the cyclone itself are easy to figure out, but there are two L-shaped pipes that plug into a boxy protrusion on the cyclone. If these cyclones are free-standing, then where do the pipes go? There’s also a piece that looks like a hand-help microphone, no idea where that goes. Finally, there’s a short L-shaped piece that I think comes out of the bottom of the cyclone, but to go … where? Posting a picture might take a while.
Ed, Did you post an instruction sheet for dust collectors and then delete it? The instructions you posted were for the wall-mounted ones currently available. But the photo you posted looks just like what I have but minus a few parts. You didn’t use the 2 long L-shaped pipes, the short L-shaped part or the piece that looks like a hand-held microphone. Plus you cut off the legs from the support cage. A nice adaptation, certainly works well in your situation. I was hoping to attach this to a grain elevator, but it’s becoming more evident that this unit is meant to be free-standing. Oh well. Still, though, I’d like to know what to do with those L-shaped pieces. Thanks, Ed. Jeff
No, Frank, The dust collectors in the photo are not the ones I have. I had the idea of looking at other Walthers buildings but there aren’t any with my type of dust collector. Jeff
Here’s how things are supposed to play out, Jeff:
Cyclone_part by Edmund, on Flickr
The long pipes have a pin on each end, they go into the two holes on the rectangular piece.
The “ball and socket” is supposed to adapt to different roof pitches where it sits in the “flange” which lays on the roof…
My experience with cyclones/bag houses would have the “fines” going down through the bottom of the funnel. There should be a slide gate type valve here. The larger, long radius elbow would be where the larger shavings would be extracted and the top two pipes would connect to the intake lines where, at the other end, the actual dust was being “sucked” from.
Actually, there should be duct work going to a high-velocity blower (which Walthers also makes*) since this is only part of the dust collection “system”. The elbow they give you might be intended to connect to that blower.
OR
Cyclone_sprue by Edmund, on Flickr
Yes, when I realized you had the freestanding model…
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Well, dust-laden air enters the top of the unit, and goes into a helical baffel, where centrifugal forces moves heavy dust to the interior of the sidewalls, and carries them to the base of the collector. Clean air is moved up through the inner cylinder, and discharges at the top of the collector, to the atmosphere, or to other filters.
Thats how a dust collector works. The motor or power source would sit on top of the unit, and the heavy dust would be collected from the bottom, into some type of a storage bin.
Not sure just how the Walthers kit should go together, but it looks like the elbow pipes should be at the bottom, to a collector bin.
Mike.
EDIT: I think Ed has covered it all.
Thanks, Ed. That explains everything. Jeff