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[DIY Stew]

I am soooo lucky when it comes to noise levels in my workshop/garage, it never bothers me, I just take my hearing aids out!!! :lol: :lol:

However the wife goes mad when she's shouting on me, she thinks I'm ignoring her on purpose, who me NEVER.
:twisted: :twisted:

Stew

 

[wobblycogs]

I wish I could do that at the moment. Our little munchkin is teething and has been screaming the place down for days.

Anyway, back on topic I did think it might be possible to put the dust extractor outside in a weather proof and noise reducing box. Make it so that in summer it vents the the outside world and in winter it vents back into the shop so you don't lose all your warm air.

 

[Jonzjob]

"and in winter it vents back into the shop so you don't lose all your warm air."

And very fine dust? :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

 

[wobblycogs]

I fully understand your point but what's the alternative? At least with venting outside in the summer you are halving or more your exposure to very fine particles. It's not ideal but very little in life is and this seems to me to be a fairly simple and cheap way of dramatically increasing the average air quality in a workshop (what other techniques could halve average fine dust exposure for the cost of a bit of tubing and ply?)

Staying vaguely on topic I imagine the water pump extractor that has been discussed would be excellent at removing very fine particles but totally impractical for any large machine unless you happen to live next to Niagara falls.

 

[Blister]

Honestly, I feel like I'm talking to myself sometimes . They are also known as aspirators (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspirator).

Sorry ! Did you say something :lol:

 

[wobblycogs]

No, don't worry about it. After 17 years with LOML I'm used to it :lol:

 

[Jonzjob]

asperateur, that's French for vacuum cleaneur. Not-a-lot-a-people-know-that

 

[SeanG]

Sorry for the delay Blister - I've been absent - not ingorant. Even though the result is the same.

That picture shows the aspirator (so called so WobblyCogs feels included ) on it's side, In use the long part of the T hangs down from a tap, stick a bit of rubber hose on the end of a tap, connect it to the ribbed taper, connect another length of rubber hose to the short piece coming out the side - this is where the air is sucked though and would run to your extraction point. The water just runs straight out the bottom.

You can probably get a quiet vacuum pump instead - but that will probably be more expensive.

I relation to how it works, think about the way a chimney creates a draw - a flow of air (wind) passed over the top of the stack, sucking air up from the fire place. The principle is the same, just a different scale and materials.

 

[CarZeeLee]

I have a handheld Dyson for this, its quiet, compact and works well.

 

[Chems]

I was only really joking with the water idea!