Cleaning up!

Bill DeShivs

Bill DeShivs

Knifemaker / Craftsman / Service Provider
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Since the new air conditioning is working so well, I hired a friend to help me start cleaning up my shop. Everything was grey-now you can see colors! Green grinders, red grinders, silver and blue!
I have needed to do this for quite a while but just kept putting it off. Working one day a week on cleaning. In another couple of weeks it will be really nice.
 
Pics or it's still filthy;) I'm sweeping my lean-to and outdoor grinding area also tonight. ETA A/C in A/Z..... Bah!!
 
That's awesome Bill!

One think I wanna get is an industrial dust collection system like a donaldson torit or something, I think that would help greatly! Do you have any dust collection?
 
REK Knives said:
That's awesome Bill!

One think I wanna get is an industrial dust collection system like a donaldson torit or something, I think that would help greatly! Do you have any dust collection?
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The Donaldson looks great, but a lot of $.

I been thinking I would get a 3 phase transport fan + VFD and a cyclone like the Dust Commander XL, and blow whatever commes out of the cyclone outside. Solid metal ducting of course
 
Scaniaman said:
The Donaldson looks great, but a lot of $.

I been thinking I would get a 3 phase transport fan + VFD and a cyclone like the Dust Commander XL, and blow whatever commes out of the cyclone outside. Solid metal ducting of course
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You can get 2-3hp used for under 1k so not too bad...

Yeah that works, but only if you DON'T have AC 😉
 
I have dust collection on my grinders. I don't use it when I'm just doing a few things during a repair, nor do I use it when grinding blades (not often.)
I have the box fan/filter combination, and I have a commercial "smoke eater" with prefilter mounted in the shop.
I have a 15" exhaust fan mounted through the wall. Never use it.
Of course, the air conditioners have filters. I clean them frequently.

You have to remember- I'm not usually doing the same thing most of you are doing. Most of my business is repair and restoration, not making knives. A little grinding here, a little polishing there, lots of hand filing and sanding.
 
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