Peter De Smidt
07-01-2006, 8:13 PM
Hi Folks,
So I'm finally getting around to painting my hundred year old house. I want to do a good job, and so I'm going to take off all of the old paint. (My neighbor didn't do this, and within two years, his paint job looked terrible.) I've built a quartz paint removing tool, similar to the Silent Paint Remover (R), and most of the paint comes off in good sized chips; but to get the wood smooth, I need to scrap it with a carbide scraper, and this makes some dust. When doing this, I wear a full-face 3m respirator, and I put down plastic sheets, and vacuum with a HEPA vac, but clearly this isn't an ideal way to handle all of the chips. As a result, I've been thinking--which can lead to trouble--that since I need chip/dust control for my smallish wood working shop, that getting a decent cyclone (Clear Vue or Oneida) might allow me to solve both problems.
With regards to paint scraping, I've considered using a longish 5" or so flexible hose to a flared rectantular fitting that I would place just below where I'm scrapping. I realize that there would be sigificant loss of suction power with, say, a 50 ft hose, but my guess is that either unit would still capture quite a bit of the dust, much more so that than the current fall on plastic sheeting/blow away in the breeze method/vacuum with HEPA vac method.
For the painting scheme, I'd probably have to mount the dust collector on a trailer, which I could move from one side of the house to the other. (It wouldn't be a problem running the required electrical connection out of the basement windows.)
Does this sound like a reasonable idea?
So I'm finally getting around to painting my hundred year old house. I want to do a good job, and so I'm going to take off all of the old paint. (My neighbor didn't do this, and within two years, his paint job looked terrible.) I've built a quartz paint removing tool, similar to the Silent Paint Remover (R), and most of the paint comes off in good sized chips; but to get the wood smooth, I need to scrap it with a carbide scraper, and this makes some dust. When doing this, I wear a full-face 3m respirator, and I put down plastic sheets, and vacuum with a HEPA vac, but clearly this isn't an ideal way to handle all of the chips. As a result, I've been thinking--which can lead to trouble--that since I need chip/dust control for my smallish wood working shop, that getting a decent cyclone (Clear Vue or Oneida) might allow me to solve both problems.
With regards to paint scraping, I've considered using a longish 5" or so flexible hose to a flared rectantular fitting that I would place just below where I'm scrapping. I realize that there would be sigificant loss of suction power with, say, a 50 ft hose, but my guess is that either unit would still capture quite a bit of the dust, much more so that than the current fall on plastic sheeting/blow away in the breeze method/vacuum with HEPA vac method.
For the painting scheme, I'd probably have to mount the dust collector on a trailer, which I could move from one side of the house to the other. (It wouldn't be a problem running the required electrical connection out of the basement windows.)
Does this sound like a reasonable idea?