Guys- I think I am killing myself with dust in the shop.
I don’t have dust control on machines outside of a bag chip collector on the joiner/planer.
What I am thinking is getting a stopgap measure by installing a air scrubber of some sort to clean up the operation a bit.
What works?
I would like something that is fairly quiet and easy to maintain- rinse or blow out the filter elements etc.
I have the parts for a cyclone to be installed with drops to machine so I will get that installed eventually- what I need now is something that might help with the fine dust flying about now and against that future with chip collection at each machine.
Small shop- 500 sq ft.
I hauled both Micro-Aire 1800's from PA home, so I could easily deliver one to your shop if you'd like, and for not much money.
I really only have need of the one, and both are still a long way from getting installed at all.
My lungs? About 30 of the fifty years I have smoked were at the two to five pack a day level so, the only reason I'm not concerned is that lung cancer has a much lower ticket number in the waiting line than scrubbing up in Trichlor or clearing fields of fire for my machine guns, unaware that "Dioxin" even existed!
The MX1800 are simple-dumb, basically a modest "air handler" 120 VAC single-phase with a two-foot deep pocketed "bag filter" in front of it, then 24" square HEPA same as "big box" stock stacked four deep in front of that.
Not shown in current literature (I have the original somewhere) is a swing-away wire mesh "snout" in front of the HEPA filters for wrapping a length of inexpensive filter-wool around three sides of, ELSE paint-spray booth precuts.
Not much noise at all.
Whole line & company info here:
Industrial air cleaners | HEPA | Ambient Capture | Micro Air
Specs are here:
https://www.microaironline.com/media/L2244.pdf
My older ones do not have the activated charcoal "finisher" on the outlet, they have the woolly bats at the intake, instead.
The bag fiter is about $100 each for generic, good for all year, what with periodic "rotation" of the HEPA by ditching dirty one at front, move all forward, add one new at the rear. Wooly-bats one can just shop-vac.
If four-deep HEPA are good enough, one might not even use the bag filter.
Air-handler fan is on a basic toggle-switch, two-speed motor.
They are not at all that heavy, are usually hung up in the overhead, but can be run vertically as well as horizontally, so "wherever". The 24" square form make any/all of wool, HEPA, or bag - charcoal if you want to add it, easy to find at competitive prices, Big Box or online.
Teak? Allergen, as with Urushiol, not "poison".
Clean-up your vitamin balance, and you won't be so sensitive to it.
I'm not at all. I'd guess those who are be short on B complex maybe, and vitamin "D" almost certainly. D isn't really a "vitamin" anyway. It's a hormone. Key to regulation of a healthy immune system, "D" is, such that it does what it was meant to do, and doesn't get confused and do the auto-immune thing that Urushiol triggers. Or Spanish / Bird flu either, for that matter.
Sixteen years in Hong Kong? Flu bites me? How would I even know what to look for as to symptoms?