One fume I find even more choking than ZnO is burning dichromate paint. My guess is that is one of the Chromium oxides, probably the really nasty hexavalent form. The couple of times I have been hit by this it has fair taken my breath away!
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One fume I find even more choking than ZnO is burning dichromate paint. My guess is that is one of the Chromium oxides, probably the really nasty hexavalent form. The couple of times I have been hit by this it has fair taken my breath away!
I added a damper and the fan seems to not cut out when I have it about 25% closed even when running flat out. Down side is it's noisier. I'm now seeking a compromise between damper opening and fan speed.
I also added the first lot of bifold doors.
https://www.woodworkforums.com/attach...1&d=1338723418
These doors cover most of the sides and will be used to reduce spatter and sparks from spraying all over the shed. Sheet metal skirts will be added to bring the doors down to bench top level.
The doors just hang on the hood and can be easily removed or folded back as follows.
https://www.woodworkforums.com/attach...1&d=1338723418
Hi Bob,
Looking great....I really should biuld something like that myself..... but I cant imagine its going to happen anytime soon.
As for yor damper problem, if you add a flat sheet like the one in my earlier post with small gap on the back and sides, a larger gap at the front, that may kill two birds with one stone.(though a damper would be easier if the fan is moving enough air as it is.)
Stuart
Hi Bob,
I spent some time last night going through your shed thread. Looks great:2tsup: although it could still look a bit more "lived in"! I like the idea of putting the dust collector pipe through the floor, and the mesh rack behind the lathe is great. It is fantastic having a sink in the shed, you probably don't need it over there but the only thing i really need is hot water! When the water coming out of the tap is less than 10 deg it's not too pleasant.
Now go make some mess!
Cheers guys, yeah I am really enjoying fitting this shed out to have some of the things in it that I have always wanted. It would have been easier if the shed was about twice as big but then I would probably only go scrounge up more machinery to fill it up!
Regarding the lived in look, right now I have a more than full time day job so I don't get anywhere near the time in it that I would like to have. That will change in late next Feb when I will be taking a redundancy package from work and plan to have at least a year off before I take on anything new and even then it will only be on a part time basis. My main headache is not letting SWMBO todo list from getting too long. :roll eyes:
Hot water would have been nice but the water never gets too cold here in Perth. What I really would have liked it to get the gas down here for a small furnace. I might still look at doing this next time I (reluctantly) get a plumber in to do another job.
It may not seem like it but I still have a lot of fitting out to do. I need to sort out the lighting, make a new bench for my ww lathe, make another grinder stand for my multitool grinder and make some cupboards for hand tools. Then I need to modify the dust extractor system to fit the refurbished arrangements and about then I might stop and make a few things.