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PM Cian, he built his out of strut and is one of the nicer ones I've seen.
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I have a Penn State cyclone. I think it is called a Tempest. If you get the download the manual for it, they have plans for building your own stand. I can send PM pictures if you want of mine.
It is a 3/4" back board that attaches against the wall. Cantilevered shelves for the cyclone.
I can send the plans for mine. Just PM me and I'll see what I can find.
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It's just an old table top with a hole cut in it, mounted on legs. Plenty stable, and dirt cheap. The motor is tucked in between floor joists.
As a bonus, I'll probably use it as the frame of a crate when I move, with the cyclone inside it, skinned with plywood.
This was taken when I was first building the cyclone (connection to the bin underneath not yet done), and I've since added a switched receptacle so the on/off switch is on the table top skirt, for convenience. The HF blower's on/off switch remains 'on' all the time, and being a known weak link, it's just as well.
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There are a couple of wooden stands on Google images. Also, some folks make their stands out of Unistrut, but a Unistrut stand may end up being more expensive than the Grizzly stand.
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I have used plenty of unistrut at work, so I didn't bother to think about it for my cyclone because of the $$$$$. I have the start of a stand, which is some rusty angle iron I liberated from the metal scrap at work. Kinda glad this thread started, I was thinking about the problem wrong.
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My G0440 is on a unitstrut stand on wheels. Works well.
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Cian- where did you get the unistrut from?
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(02-22-2017, 11:00 PM)mongo Wrote: Cian- where did you get the unistrut from?
You should be able to find it any Big Box. IIRC, I bought everything locally between Menards and Home Depot.