What is an effective product to stop/reduce sawdust from building up on ones eye glasses? I have tries a couple of products in the past but they weren't worth the money.
Than you.
What is an effective product to stop/reduce sawdust from building up on ones eye glasses? I have tries a couple of products in the past but they weren't worth the money.
Than you.
I used to use the CVS pump spray but they took the antistatic out. Check ski goggle and motorcycle helmet cleaners.
Bill D
I recall reading somewhere that rubbing a dryer sheet on your lenses is supposed to help keep the sawdust off.
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Maybe you need better dust collection so there isn’t as much dust in the air?
The dust is from routing. There is no effective dust collection for hand held routing. I tried one designed for the router and there was no real difference than not using the device without it.
There are a couple good dust collector for hand held routing. https://www.rockler.com/dust-right-c...hoCCmoQAvD_BwE
https://www.oneida-air.com/universal...ikZChlJXmPdbS4
And if it's getting on your glasses, it's going in your nose. Once in your lungs, the super fines pass through to your blood and end up in your kidneys and liver. That's the serious damage!
I use respiratory protection.
I won't argue that what you say is not technically true, but the part about getting into the blood and then the liver is a stretch, for sawdust. A particle needs to be less than .1 micron or so in diameter to pass through the lungs into the bloodstream. Neither abrasive (sanding) or cutting (as with the OP's question) generates wood particles that small, so unless you're actually burning the wood out with your bits (smoke does create a lot of submicrometer particulates), that's not the big concern. The danger from wood dust really is to the lungs - pulmonary fibrosis caused by particulate matter in sizes in the 1 - 10 micron range. That's also what is on the OP's glasses - something small enough to pass into the blood stream would have to deposit a lot of dust on lenses even to be noticable, and if you had that much suspended in the air, you'd feel like you're in a smoke filled room.
Those would not work in my application. I'm using a spoil board bit. I'm setting up a router sled. I am using a Bosch plunge router and the one designed for it is worthless. I've resigned myself to use all the standard safety equipment, e.g., resp. hearing and hearing protection as I usually do. I am tired of sweeping and vacuuming. The amount of material coming off the wood is astounding.
I wonder if you could set up something to blow a small stream of air across the lenses, like some scroll saws and jigsaws have to blow dust off the line of cut? I am imagining a little hose running along each earpiece to a Y at the back of your neck, and a tiny battery powered blower clipped to your collar or something.