-
The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is available! Price is $250 ea (shipped within CONUS).
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/
Grinder dust collecting: help needed
- Thread starter Alarion
- Start date
- Joined
- Oct 4, 1999
- Messages
- 709
Take a bucket of water and put a little dish detergent in it and put it under the grinder, the metal will float to the bottom.
- Joined
- May 13, 2002
- Messages
- 6
alot of grinders (and the one i have) have "shoots" out of the back where all the dust shoots out (i know i have trouble reading that part too) any way what i did was tie down plastic sandwich baggies (the thik kind) over those holes and all the dust collects in there (havent had any fileings burn throgh yet ether
- Joined
- Oct 9, 1998
- Messages
- 1,767
I have 2 bag Jet dust collector. When grinding metal, I just put a garbage can under it. With water for the smaller particles, and without water for the heavier particles. For anything that doesn't go in the garbage can, I just wait till after I'm done grinding to suck it up with the dust collector (and it should be cool by then). For wood, I take the end of the hose and clamp it next to the contact wheel using a vise.
- Joined
- May 15, 1999
- Messages
- 720
Hi Alarion
What I ended up with, after many experiments, is a 5 gallon bucket that sits under the grinder. The bucket is 1/2 full of water.
The top half of the bucket has a 4 inch vent pickup. That vent runs directly into a large box that holds a squirrel-cage blower from a furnace. The box vents directly to the outside of my shop.
About once a month I hit the pickup with a bunch of blasts from the compressor.
Because I use the grinder for steel and for wood and for antler, I won't even consider any kind of system that holds the material from the grinder.
This system gets most of the heavy material in the water, and the finer materials are blown directly outside. Not perfect, but it gets most of it.
I also have a big, double air cleaner from Penn State Industries mounted up high that runs all the time I am out in the shop.
Please let us know when you get something you are happy with- most of us like to see other solutions
Dave
What I ended up with, after many experiments, is a 5 gallon bucket that sits under the grinder. The bucket is 1/2 full of water.
The top half of the bucket has a 4 inch vent pickup. That vent runs directly into a large box that holds a squirrel-cage blower from a furnace. The box vents directly to the outside of my shop.
About once a month I hit the pickup with a bunch of blasts from the compressor.
Because I use the grinder for steel and for wood and for antler, I won't even consider any kind of system that holds the material from the grinder.
This system gets most of the heavy material in the water, and the finer materials are blown directly outside. Not perfect, but it gets most of it.
I also have a big, double air cleaner from Penn State Industries mounted up high that runs all the time I am out in the shop.
Please let us know when you get something you are happy with- most of us like to see other solutions
Dave
- Joined
- Nov 26, 2001
- Messages
- 1,375
I'll try to experiment with a water filter...
I'll put a plastic box with two holes on the top, half filled with water and put in one hole the hose, and in the other the vac-cleaner, so that air sucked in has to pass thwough water, so that all burning/hot particles get extinguished and cooled down. After usch teratment it shouldn't be a problem storing them in the sac...
I'll let you know whenever I test it!
I'll put a plastic box with two holes on the top, half filled with water and put in one hole the hose, and in the other the vac-cleaner, so that air sucked in has to pass thwough water, so that all burning/hot particles get extinguished and cooled down. After usch teratment it shouldn't be a problem storing them in the sac...
I'll let you know whenever I test it!