I suppose I’m to blame for not finding this sooner, but I don’t know how long it’s been this way. I did notice last night that the dust collector had very little suction. When I checked the filters, they were packed completely full with sawdust and chips. This happens when the barrel is allowed to fill up completely, and then you keep going. I’ll have to remove the filters to finish cleaning all of the debris from between the pleats. I’ll try to do that today or this evening. Until then, I’ll be locking out all machines that use the dust collector.
It took several minutes of digging before the debris that was packed into the filters would finally fall free. This was just the first half of what was in there!
All but a couple inches at the bottom of this barrel are from what was filling the filters.
