[modeleng] Re: Dust from hard woods-workshop projects

Len, when I was much younger, I destroyed my sense of
smell by sanding Gypsum/Sheet Rock Joint Compound
without using a respirator.  Apparently the Olfactory
(sp?) nerves were damaged so your warning is very
needful.

Al Messer
--- Len Smith <parnobal2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> As an emphysema sufferer, caused primarily through
> inhaling wood dust during my time as a wheelwright
> and carriage builder, I would urge the utmost
> precautions are taken when working with wood in
> situations that can cause dust. Vacuuming afterwards
> is no good, the fine dust is what causes the
> problems, and that usually can't be seen. Dust
> extraction  during work is the only way. I'm sure
> that ingenious chaps such as we all are on this
> list, can jury rig a vac cleaner to sanders etc. I
> now use flexible plastic conduit piping from my
> sander to a vac several feet outside my shed. It's
> light and doesn't offer much drag when working,
> though the corrugations do make a bit of a whistle.
> Len Smith
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: john.burridge@xxxxxxxxxx 
>   To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>   Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 12:51 PM
>   Subject: [modeleng] Dust from hard woods-workshop
> projects
> 
>   Hi to all,
>   I am told that most hard woods that we work that 
> produce dust are bad for us, i surpose when
> woodworking was done at slower speeds with shavings
> instead as now with routers at high spindle speeds.
>   I surpose that metal machining  that we do at work
> with very high spindle speeds and large feed
> rates(15,000 to 30,000RPM) and flooded with
> coolant/cutting lubricants we get a mist which we
> need special collectors/Vacumn cleaners so that the
> workshop does not end up in a haze.
>   I would think that with Health and Safety that
> this has been looked into and we are protected
> againist harm(I hope).
>   Not the kind of thing that we encounter in our
> home workshops except for wood, and a vacumn can
> take care of that.
>   On another subject what is everyone making at the
> moment in their workshops.
>   yours for now.
>   John Burridge  Raining in Oxford
>   -- 
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