The Enemy of Dust

During and after the woodworking and shop prep the dust situation was bad.  We tried to be clean. Kept things blown out and swept up but I still came back to quite a coating on everything.  Not to mention a great deal of the parts tools and stuff was pretty dirty on moving in. I installed a little blower in the back wall to provide positive air flow and built a filtration contraption, which I call the Enemy of Dust (EOD)

As I process parts, IE scraping polishing grinding wire wheeling and making a mess I knew I would need a system for controlling air born debris.

Primary filtration is from a metal furnace screen on the inlet which also serves as a flame screen.

The fan moves about 250 cfm and discharges into the secondary filter.  That filter is a very fine dust filter that also fits my shop vac.  This works pretty well.  I run it when ever I do anything that stirs up dust.  

After cleaning, sweeping and dusting with the unit running I blow the daylights out of the whole shop with a leaf blower.  Let the EOD running over night and came back in the morning to a clean shop.