Dust

4/16/20, 5:41 PM #1

Svante Nilsson
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Dust

Svante Nilsson

Hi,

On complex shapes I have problems with sanding dust that settles in the corners.

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Is there a smart way to get rid of it - prefferable without using compressed air

Re: Dust

4/16/20, 6:18 PM #2

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Toothbrush?

John in NM

If that is too stiff and coarse, perhaps an artist's paint brush.

Re: Dust

4/16/20, 6:27 PM #3

Kneale Brownson
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Vacuum?

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I find the tool with a brush helpful.

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Re: Dust

4/16/20, 6:28 PM #4

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Re: Tack cloth?

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or, how about a scraped and planed surface prep, instead of sanded?

Re: Dust

4/16/20, 7:18 PM #5

Dick Coers
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Drinking straw in your mouth and blow

Re: Dust

4/16/20, 8:19 PM #6

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Get your wife to clean it.....

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For what it's worth, I'm divorced.

Re: Dust

4/17/20, 2:20 AM #7

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Re: Toothbrush?

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

Or denture brush: stronger bristles, and many of them come with a tuft of brush on the "back side" of the brush that will go into corners. Any pharmacy.

Re: Dust

4/17/20, 7:40 PM #8

Tim Greif - West of Chicago
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What's objectionable about using compressed air?

Re: Dust

4/17/20, 8:44 PM #9

paul in AZ
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Why not just use a shop vac?

Re: Dust

4/17/20, 9:50 PM #10

Svante Nilsson
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Thanks! **

Re: Dust

4/19/20, 4:14 PM #11

Kneale Brownson
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Puts dust back into the air, not contained.

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I’m a fairly spry 82-year-old who had been a reader/participant at WoodCentral since the demise of Badger Pond. I started visiting BP to learn something about finish for a project I’d completed and became hooked on internet forums as a way of increasing my knowledge about all sorts of topics. I have been a moderator for a couple other forums on subjects I enjoy. My interest in woodworking began in the early 1970’s when my wife and I had contractors add to our house near Traverse City, MI, and I ended up doing the trim work to reduce mounting costs. I had no tools. I bought a P-C skilsaw, hammer, screwdrivers and one of those wooden miter boxes with a backsaw. I made trim for windows and doors from one-by lumber and started my woodworking career. At the same time, I started a 50-year career as a ski instructor. I got onto the night shift at a mental hospital so I could ski days, and spent my 30s and 40s with that schedule. I eventually replaced the PC-upside-down-in-a-board with a real table saw and began the purchase of enough equipment to fill a jam-packed 40-foot shipping container we used after we sold our property in Michigan. The ski instructing had taken us to Colorado and we were spending too much on maintaining utilities for two homes. A couple years ago, the dozen years spent at 10,000 feet of elevation was making my body produce too many red blood cells, so we had to leave my “forever” home in the mountains and we moved back to Michigan. Now I have to find myself a shop space for all those tools in the container.

Dust

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