a comprehensive site for dust collection

[hughie]

I found this site and it has IMHO a great deal of info on dust collection and a good 'how to' section for a cyclone dust removal set up

http://billpentz.com/woodworking/Cyclone/BudBlower.cfm

[Cliff Rogers]

Has been mentioned once or twice before Hughie, but, it doens't hurt to mention it again incase somebody missed it. :)

Bill is a member here & pops in from time to time. :2tsup:

[Caveman]

Thanks Hughie - interesting site - I guess I must have missed it.

[Cliff Rogers]

Just about all the WWF good threads in the 'Best of' mention it.
Have you had a look at the 'Best of WWF' (http://www.woodworkforums.com/showthread.php?t=16776) section under Dust Collection?

[NeilS]

Yes, Hughie, an excellent resource on the topic. I built a cyclone to Bill Pentz's design last year and it has been working 1st rate. After about 30 wheelie bins of mixed shavings and fine dust I would have no more than two handfuls of 'dust' that has come through to the drop bag below the filter...and most of that was as a result of me not noticing on one occasion that the wheelie bin was chockers and, as a result, the cyclone filled to overflowing :doh:).

Being an asthmatic I need to keep the dust to a minimum in my workshop, so I'm very appreciative of all the work that Bill put into his research, design and very compreshensive website.

Neil

PS - perhaps this thread belongs in the Safety Forum?

[Caveman]

:-:B thanks Cliff - must make more use of that - have been rather blinkered and confined to the woodturning section so far.

[hughie]

Has been mentioned once or twice before Hughie, but, it doens't hurt to mention it again incase somebody missed it. :)


Cliff,
I must have been asleep..........:C

thanks :U

[rsser]

The big challenge for turners is of course at the input end.

How about a competition for the most 'Heath Robinson' collector? Pics essential. The prize is the most greenies :p

[Cliff Rogers]

Any turner with a beard has the best collector, all you need to do is wave the suction hose over it every now & then. :D

[rsser]

True.

Works fine as long as you're not open-mouthed over a nice bit of wood or over a 1st-grade cock-up.

Then it's 'spit, ptui, cough' and damn. ;-}

[hughie]

Any turner with a beard has the best collector, all you need to do is wave the suction hose over it every now & then. :D




Then it's 'spit, ptui, cough' and damn. ;-}


ya just gotta learn to breath out only :U:D:U

[ticklingmedusa]

Any turner with a beard has the best collector, all you need to do is wave the suction hose over it every now & then. :D

:D:2tsup::D