Thread: replacement hose for dust extractor

An interesting article by Rod Cole, basically saying that to get a dust explosion you need very specific conditions that in a small home workshop just don't occour at all or very rarely, we are more likely to get hit by lightning, it confirms my experience with my little drama https://www.woodworkforums.com/f200/w...-there-135446/

I have done a few shutdowns at the Gladstone power station, one was on the Burner Front, this is where the pulverized coal is fed into the bolier via the burner tube, was quite interesting to discover that they can't/don't light the powdered coal at first instance, first they light an LPG gas lance from a spark, then from that they light a diesal lance and then when all that's going they introduce the air/coal mix which then ignites and burns, from this it can be seen that it is quite difficult to get an air/solid fuel mix at correct proportions to ignite especially when travelling at velocity as said by Rod Cole, also interesting in the article was that the bin is the most likely place for a fire to start generated by say a hot metal spark, (an experience some members have experienced first hand), one of the things that was foremost in my mind at the time of my incedent and the main reason I did not turn off my DC at first instance, the bin is more likely to go up when the DC is not long turned off.


Pete