photohiker wrote:Ok, I'm really interested in your dust control. How are you doing that with all this dust and chip creating machinery in your office and lounge room?
Fairly good really
The mini lathe in the office is just stored there. On the rare occasions it is used, it is taken into the workshop (aka loungeroom) and put on the lathe/scrollsaw bench (aka dining table)
All the power tools connect to Festo dust extractors when in use. I have two. I use both on the router table: One above the table and one below. the other power tools use one at a time. My partner will often use one while I am using the other.
Any dust they miss is collected by a room air cleaner that can be seen suspended from the ceiling near the dividing wall in the photo.
Most hand operations generate shavings rather than dust. This is simply vacuumed or swept up. The exception is hand sanding which I avoid as the power sanders all have exceptional dust removal. When I do hand sand (or use the lathe - another dust generator difficult to control), I use a dust mask & leave the room extractor on as long as possible.
Anything that reaches the floor is vacuumed by one of the extractors - these are significantly better at dust removal than your average vacuum cleaner. This includes Dysons - I have spoken to the man himself about this. - They work well, but will not cope with the volumes of fine dust generated by woodwork.
The machinery (another lathe and two bandsaws) sit outside on the patio. They connect to an industrial size dust extractor that sits outside with them
I also avoid MDF as far as possible. That generates really fine dust which is toxic to boot. All wood dusts are class 1 carcinogens though. Hence the precautions.