Dust Collection & Respiratory Health

[chrisjoe13]

Originally Posted by numbskull

He is, I think, a OCD sufferer. A 5hp dust collector exhausted to the outside will suck every bit of heated air out of your shop in seconds and pull the carbon monoxide out of your chimney and into your shop instantly. Which is good, since you won't have any money to live on anyways after you pay the heating and electric bill.

CO will silently kill but if you want to do it this way, why not just turn off the furnace while your s#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&g air outside. You'll lose some heat but no CO worries.

[Charleston]

The 5hp rating seems large but what is the CFM of the 5 hp unit? What are the dims of your shop; L,W,H?

You get the air and chips moving that fast through your piping and you may generate electricity. Try hooking up a light.

[GFGF]

2 hp grizzly with a cyclone.when the shop is buttoned up tight , it sucks the smoke out of the running woodstove. I just open a window while the DC is running.you should do the same if you have an oil burner.
still better than shop full of dust that lands on every level surface and a case of wood lung.
If its possible set yer DC outside of the workspace. build an outside "closet "if u have to

[Karl F]

as capesams once said to me...

Ya gotta die from somethin'


wood fiber.... fiber is good for you...no?

no DC.. just a shop vac..and my resperator...

and I do stop and clean as I go...

but I don't make plugs on a commercial level either..

I guess it is all relative to how many your turn and drill..

hundred or two a year tops...or only a handfull like this winter..

numby, thanks for continuning the motivation and agree..the extra inches will kill ya quicker...and working on getting rid of those two..and some have already gone...
and the fresh air I get working on that might be helping clean out the lung filters... who knows....