• Congratulations to Alex Bradley winner of the December 2024 Turning Challenge (click here for details)
  • Conversations are now Direct Messages (click here for details)
  • Congratulations to Gabriel Hoff for "Spalted Beech Round Bottom Box" being selected as Turning of the Week for January 6, 2024 (click here for details)
  • Welcome new registering member. Your username must be your real First and Last name (for example: John Doe). "Screen names" and "handles" are not allowed and your registration will be deleted if you don't use your real name. Also, do not use all caps nor all lower case.

Weak Link in Dust Control

D

DennisM

Joined
Dec 4, 2004
Messages
64
Likes
0
Location
Washington IL - Central Illinois Peoria Area
Quite concerned with the control of dust in my workshop. I have installed a cyclone system which I use when sanding on the lathe. I have an exhaust fan in the window behind the lathe that is used when the weather permits. I have a dust collector mounted on the ceiling which is always on when I am working. A second dust collector is on a stand directly behind the lathe and is on whenever I turn. Finally I have a Trend shield / dust filter that I use as conditions warrant. Thought I had it all pretty well covered - until -----

I looked at the shop vac that I use in the clean up. Typical hardware store varitey with a paper filter inside. After spending so much energy trying to remove dust from the air, seems like my vacuum does a good job of spewing small dust particilars back into the air.

Which leads me to my question for the assembled wisdedom of the group. Any ideas on which brand/type of shop vac would be appropriate to minimize dust and noise?
 
If you can, get a Gortex filter for the shop vac. There are only a few models that can take them , but they do a better job of filtering.
One brand is Clean Stream, http://www.cleanstream.com/
 
You can get a gortex filter bag for ShopVac brands and then use it on most. You can also get creative with the cartridge filters and velcro.

Dietrich
 
re dust escaping from exhaust port

I scavange my wife's discarded pantyhose for several useful applications in the shop and garden: applying certain finishes, tying up tomato plants, etc. I secure the foot of one of the stockings to the exhaust port of my shop vac with a stout rubber band. I'm sure it doesn't catch all the escaping dust, but when I empty it there is always enough dust in it to make it worth the small effort to put it back on.
 
Thank you

Thank you all for your suggestions. I had thought I would have to spend a couple of hundred to buy a new vac that handle the fine dust. Turns out tha Shop Vac sells two levels of filters above the paper one that I had been using. Looks like the best answer is to pucrchase their drywall filter - about $20 - rather than buy a whole new vac.

Only thing that I am still left with is that the high end filter says it handles drywall dust, but it doesn't talk in terms of micron. Does anyone know the size of drywall dust?

My thanks again to all.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top