This is my best shot at making you laugh and shake your head. I do both each time I dust my shop this way. At a minimum, it is unorthodox, at maximum it is absurd. How did this start? I was getting frustrated one day because countless dust nibs were interfering with my feeble attempts at finishing. In desperation, I opened the garage doors, fired up my blower and blew the whole garage out thoroughly. Then I let a fan run for a few minutes and, to my surprise, the dust was gone. I guess you can put this down as one advantage of garage workshops. In my defense, it does take two minutes.
The best way to deal with dust is to have a separate area for hand tool woodworking that is walled off from machines, sandpaper, and other sources of fine dust. For a variety of reasons that I won't bore you with, that isn't feasible in my case, so this is what I am left with. Rescue me from my perversion; tell me a better way.
Looks normal to me, although you did make me laugh when things started falling off shelves.
ReplyDeleteDig it! My hand-tool-only shop seems to get very dusty - more than I thought it would. But still not close to the dust I used to get with machines. Gotta get me a blower (ha!). But I'll have to batten everything down first or so much stuff will blow off shelves!
ReplyDeleteI think you have a pretty effective process. The only improvement would be after that and the fans would be to,have one of those air filtration systems run.
ReplyDeleteI like how you deal with the killer dust nibs. I doubt that would work in my cellar shop though.
ReplyDeleteSeen it done before with more or less dubious results. I think one of the key is running fans (air cleaner) afterward.
ReplyDeleteAt the Bagotville Air Base woodshop, the guys tried blowing up the dust that way once. OMG they were using gas leaf blowers (3) They quickly disappeared in a cloud of fumes and dust :-) That was the one and only time I let them used that method and we had to borrow some of the big blowers from the Fire Hall to clear the air in the shop... :-)
And the end results were... .well we had to clean up still
But if that works for you, keep it up
Bob, choking in the dust
we do the same thing in our garage shop. Open the doors, plug in the leaf blower and away we go.
ReplyDeleteIt looks perfectly reasonable to me. Plus, the added benefit that it appearantly works on empty beer cans, too!
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