dust removal

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drlloyd1

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Has anyone built a dust removal fan, which vents to the outside using the pvc pipe, cutoffs, etc for each machine? (Grinders, saws)

Where would you get a motor and fan that would move such a high volume of air?

thanks
 
Living in the "Great White North", and wanting to stay warm in the winter, I built a very simple recirculating air cleaner for the finish shop. My shop has a half loft, so I decided to attach a large blower (the type found in a home funace) to a hole in the ceiling (loft floor) of the shop, I then built a plywood box around it, leaving both sides open to accept 25x16x1 furnace filters. Works great with no heat loss to the outside. I have made one improvement........replaced the 1" furnace filters with 2" "hogs hair" filter material, and sprayed it with a light coat of "filter tack", now I take them out about once every 6 months and wash them, thats it! Still need to wear a respirator, but at least I can see the far side of the shop when grinding micarta or ironwood!
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Ed Caffrey
"The Montana Bladesmith"




[This message has been edited by Ed Caffrey (edited 01-21-2000).]
 
In a recent issue of Wood Magazine there is an article about whole shop dust removal. Also check out The Workshop book by Scott Landis. The trouble with PVC is static generated sparks may touch of explosions and or fire in the wood dust, or mixing hot metal sparks from ginding and wood dust. Scott Landis suggests the use of metal duct work to correct this problem. Shop Acessories You can build from The best of Fine Woodworking also has some ideas on this including the device Ed was talking about. I got these two books from my library system
 
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