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I just read an extremely well written article about shop wood dust and its effects by Seri Robinson, an associate professor of wood anatomy at Oregon State University, and just had to share it. https://www.oneida-air.com/blog/dust-collection-in-a-shared-shop-a-wood-scientists-perspective My father-in-law work with wood all his life, started in the back woods logging camps of New Brunswick chopping and sawing trees, dragging them down to the rivers edge with horse drawn sleds, then dancing on the logs as the drifted down the river to the mill, to ending his career in the local lumber yard making roof trusses and cutting pressure treated lumber for customers. In all that time he never wore any filtered mask... they weren't a consideration for his job until the year after he retired, the year he health declined and he became dependant on supplementary oxygen 24/7. Dust in his lungs. I've been wearing a proper shop filtered dust mask for years, added dedicated dust collection system to my workstations, and added a micro dust filter unit in my shop.... and there is still dust accumulating down there. Please read the article and consider your health.
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Hopeful all are well and thanks for reading this post. I am looking for a discussion to discover insights on best practices for having a workshop space inside a room of a home. It seems dust control, produced by sanding or in-home dust marring an in-progress model, especially the rigging ropes, is a top concern for the model itself and for others who live in the home, dealing with the smells, wood sanding dust, etc, etc. One solution I noted was to turn on the dust vac, attaching the suction hose near the model, while sanding to suck up wood particles, so they would not further add to dust. Thanks for sharing and looking forward to this post helping others, also.
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Hi all, I tend to do my sanding by hand and also using a Proxxon disc sander TG 125/E in my garden shed (during the warm summer months) - this is to keep the dust out of my house. I also use a small Proxxon wood lathe in the shed, and that also produces dust. As winter approaches I have tried using the disc sander in my house attached to a mains powered Panasonic vacuum.... .. but the noise from the vacuum was unbearable. It is also large and the tubing is cumbersome. Question - is there a compact, very quiet dust extractor suitable for indoor use? Ideally it would attach directly by tube to the disc sander, but also have a suction tube that could be placed near the lathe or hand sanding area. Thanks, Richard
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I had assumed that others were aware of Mr. Pentz' site, but perhaps that was a dubious assumption. On this site you will probably find more than you wish to know about the subject, including wood toxicities and design tools if you wish to design and build your own system. This site provided me with ideas for my wall-mounted separator with the bucket-head vac. http://billpentz.com/woodworking/cyclone/index.cfm#index.cfm
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How have you connected your dust collector to the Byrnes machines' dust ports? There must be a simple way but I have not found a hose fitting that fits the 1-1/2" ID or the 1-3/4" OD size. Any constructive comments? Thanks, Alex
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