Re: Keeping the sometime "Studio"mostly shop clean
MikeinCapeMay
>I've had a 2 hp Delta dust collector sitting in the corner of my shop for nearly one year. Shortly after buying it (scratch and dent from one of the online outfits) I began installing drops from most of my machinery. The past two days finally found the time (and motivation) to put in a drop for the lathe and to make the connections. I'm very fortunate that my shop is in a separate building and sits on a crawl space. I ran the pipe beneath the floor and it's up and running. It will and does collect everything from the tablesaw, joiner, planer, cmpd miter saw, bandsaw, belt/disc and BOSS sanders. I've yet to make a decision about the drill press. As for the lathe, it will suck darn near everything off of a turning (at least that which I experimented with) except for the heaviest shavings. However the best feature here is it's ability to remove the finer shavings and just about all of the dust, a blessing for my lungs and all horizontal, vertical and inclined surfaces, all of which are dust magnets. That which isn't removed can be push-broomed into a floor sweep that I installed. Finally, everything that's somehow missed and left behind will travel via shovel, as I've always done, into my 36 gallon barrel and then carried to the composter (including the walnut). I have an old air cleaner hanging from the ceiling, manufactured by Total Shop which I inherited from my Dad. I'll finally be able to tell if it actually works. In the past, what with all of the airborne dust, all it really accomplished was to clog it's filters, so while it obviously worked, I've no idea how well. Anyway, nothing unique or interesting, just a dust collection system, pushbroom and shovel, shop vac, and composter.Oh yeah, in the summer I used a box fan, recovered from someone's curbside trash, after installing a new switch I placed it strategically behind me blowing some of the dust generated by the lathe out of the open doors.
