My dust extraction one month on.

[linkshouse]

I mentioned a while back (erm, about a month ago) that I had made a Thien cyclone and installed a centralised dust extraction system.

I decided to open it up today and see what it looked like.

The cyclone is made using a 210ltr steel drum so I didn't expect it to be full and in the event is was just under a quarter full -

Of course the bit that really mattered was what the vacuum looked like -

I'm fairly pleased with this. There was bound to be some dust in there but this isn't bad for pretty much daily use over one month.

Phill

 

[novocaine]

that's disgraceful, a whole month and that's all you have to show for yourself, get back in that workshop and don't come out till you've filled that drum.

I make more dust than that in half a day, granted the dust is pretty much the only outcome of my work, but that's not the point here is it.

 

[linkshouse]

that's disgraceful, a whole month and that's all you have to show for yourself, get back in that workshop and don't come out till you've filled that drum.

I make more dust than that in half a day, granted the dust is pretty much the only outcome of my work, but that's not the point here is it.

Doh! Of course you're right.

I was concentrating so hard on making firewood that I lost site of the dust :shock:

Phill

 

[novocaine]

A common mistake.

you can combine them both if you feel the need. light the fire with the firewood then chuck the dust down the chimney, you'll be fine*.

* fine is a subjective term, in this case fine is in relation to not liking your eyebrows or hair and wanting to get warm in a firey mushroom cloud sort of way.

 

[Claymore]

Have you seen the videos on Youtube where the young apprentice carpenter is told to empty a bin full of fine wood dust onto a bonfire in the yard? its worth searching for as his face is a picture when it goes up like a bomb! lol

 

[linkshouse]

I guess we might all imagine that sawdust would go up like a bomb but to be honest many dusts do.

I've seen some starting videos of whole flour mills being destroyed by dust explosions, the main damage being from secondary explosions caused by dust thrown into the air from the first explosion.

Phill

 

[novocaine]

C6H12O6(s)+6O2(g)-->6CO2(g)+6H2O(g)

also known as an explosion in a custard factory. I'm sad enough to know this.

I've modeled a few dust explosions in my real job, they present an interesting problem, at the moment I'm looking at wood dust in a biomass power station.

 

[linkshouse]

C6H12O6(s)+6O2(g)-->6CO2(g)+6H2O(g)

Yes, that's what I thought :|

Phill