cleaning the floor

Shop floor?

Hoa Dinh in Alameda

>Never thought of that.....

For large amount of dust, an I-Robot will not be sufficient. A broom and a dust pan works much better.

For small amount of dust on the floor, who cares! I'm more concerned about the dust on other surfaces (walls, tools, car, ....)

The obstructions (TS legs, bench legs, scrap lumber, ....) in the shop will drive the I-Robot crazy.

-- Hoa

Re: Shop floor cleaning

del schisler

>here is the way i have cleaned my shop for 15 yrs or so or alway's I have 2 fan's in the windows 36" The Shop is 16x20 The Fans on each end 1 By the leathe and other on the Opposite End Where sanding is done I use my air hose and blow dust ect. to the end of the shop and use my delta dust collector and vaccume it up The shop is almost dust free I also use air hose and blow all the dust i can find on my board's which are stack on all 4 side's In the overhead this dust goes out This has worked for me I live in so. florida this help's also

del, You have no dust because ......

Barry Irby

>your shop blows and S. Florida sucks. (No offense, I just couldn't help it!) I wish I had no dust and the warm climate of S. Florida.

I don't think the little robot vacs I've seen would stand a chance. They couldn't hold over a few cubic inches and you can inhale that much in my shop. The ones I saw were Roomba (?) brand.

Re: cleaning the floor

Binen

>Not a bad idea except for one problem. The little vacuume only holds about 1 cup of debris. They not a bad idea but they take more work than they are worth.

Binen

Re: cleaning the floor (with a Robot) *LINK*

awh

>After getting a Roomba for christmas I been wondering how it would work in the shop. It appears they have a "shop" version, but if the dust bin isn't any larger than the Roomba model it may not be worth even trying. BTW I have experimented with the Roomba in the shop, but it needs BETTER TIRES, the existing tires will get eaten up in no time running on a concrete floor. LARGER DUST BIN, picking up the saw dust from just rounding over a couple of edges with a router can fill the small bin pretty fast, it only holds a couple of handfuls at best. DIFFERENT BRUSHES, again concrete floors can give these quite a beating and the rotating corner brush needs to be stiffer and not rotate as fast - as it is now it flings the saw dust away more than directing it under the Roomba. It could also benefit from extended battery life and better room mapping to guide it around the shop and equipment.

I think if some of these changes were implemented, Roomba would make a great shop vacuum! I sent the manufacture asking about details on the "Dirt Dog" (see link below), but I have not heard back from them.


iRobot Dirt Dog Workshop Robot