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    Quote Originally Posted by fletty View Post
    IF this video loaded or, through the dark mysteries of IT gobbledygook is somehow available, what it shows is a handful of dust and swarf thrown into the cabinet but being picked up immediately by the 150mm bell mouth.
    Have you thought about putting a safety screen across the BMH? I note that the handful of dust was cast from a safe distance! I think you've nailed it, mate. Well done!

    mick

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    Quote Originally Posted by Glider View Post
    Have you thought about putting a safety screen across the BMH? I note that the handful of dust was cast from a safe distance! I think you've nailed it, mate. Well done!

    mick
    You might be joking but in that position I don't think a screen is needed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mountain Ash View Post
    Hi there Mr Fletty. I have just finished reading this thread (not all at once but I started right at the beginning!) and thank you, and all the many contributors, to a most enjoyable journey. I must confess to getting a little lost in the VFD discussions but overall this has been most entertaining and educational. My dust collection has a long way to go - have you had any success with collecting from a wood lathe? Keep up the good work.
    Thank you for taking the time to read the whole thread! I know it has turned into a written marathon but it evolved with the shed and the trials and tribulations within it? I don’t have a lathe having always claimed that it would make me giddy, but there have been been many ideas and suggestions in the DC section of this forum that are worth checking out. If there’s anything I can do to help though please just ask?
    a rock is an obsolete tool ......... until you don’t have a hammer!

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    I’ve had a long term plan to make a model of the aircraft my father flew in during WW2. He flew in Halifaxes of 466 Squadron RAAF. A few weeks ago through serendipitous circumstances, I met a very proficient modeller who offered to do it for me. I thought about it for a nano second, said yes and handed over the kits, research and accessories. The model is not yet finished but the progress can best be described as stunning.
    Rather than completely abdicating my role in this, even though I hadn’t built a plastic kit in 55 years, I am making models of the servicing vehicles that would have been gathered around the Halifax prior to a mission.
    So, I have borrowed some equipment (thanks NCArcher), bought a few things and improvised the rest. I am airbrushing rather than brushing and hence I needed a ventilated cabinet. Now, as the long suffering readers of this thread know, I have a ducted dust collecting system in the shed and the now redundant hood from my mitre saw. Voila, I cobbled the 2 together and I had my airbrushing cabinet....

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    My woodworking dust collecting system is ‘pretty good’ for woodworking but NOW FOR THE CAUTIONARY TALE, it is far too good for modelling and airbrushing. I am currently bum up and head down searching in the cyclone drum for the 6 remaining bits of the kit that were sucked off their painting sticks into the exhaust!
    a rock is an obsolete tool ......... until you don’t have a hammer!

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    Default A cautionary tale..... I think the third?

    I’ve had a long term plan to make a model of the aircraft my father flew in during WW2. He flew in Halifaxes of 466 Squadron RAAF. A few weeks ago through serendipitous circumstances, I met a very proficient modeller who offered to do it for me. I thought about it for a nano second, said yes and handed over the kits, research and accessories. The model is not yet finished but the progress can best be described as stunning.
    Rather than completely abdicating my role in this, even though I hadn’t built a plastic kit in 55 years, I am making models of the servicing vehicles that would have been gathered around the Halifax prior to a mission.
    So, I have borrowed some equipment (thanks NCArcher), bought a few things and improvised the rest. I am airbrushing rather than brushing and hence I needed a ventilated cabinet. Now, as the long suffering readers of this thread know, I have a ducted dust collecting system in the shed and the now redundant hood from my mitre saw. Voila, I cobbled the 2 together and I had my airbrushing cabinet....

    189A755F-4F52-4CF0-ADED-AD3F1F814F6D.jpeg

    My woodworking dust collecting system is ‘pretty good’ for woodworking but NOW FOR THE CAUTIONARY TALE, it is far too good for modelling and airbrushing. I am currently bum up and head down searching in the cyclone drum for the 6 remaining bits of the kit that were sucked off their painting sticks into the exhaust!
    a rock is an obsolete tool ......... until you don’t have a hammer!

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    I realise you are using the redundant hood from the mitre saw but for working on small parts and small amounts of vapours not much flow is required. To save yourself spending time looking in the dust bin for parts covering the air inlets with fly wire would be all that is needed. For anyone intending to build a dedicated system for such fumes and dust, extraction from the top of the hood is the way to go. This has the added advantage of leaving the bench top free to store more crap and mess.

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    Just making a comment to get this back up on the new posts list

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