Post #285475 by tikigap on Tue, Feb 13, 2007 5:09 PM

So I discovered that my daughter is allergic to walnut. We knew she had a nut allergy - any nuts - including walnuts, but I never thought the dust would be a problem.

I had been sanding the pig for a while (see my thread), and the dust was going everywhere. In fact, my "shop" as it were, is really the "laundry" room. That dust was getting on the girl's clothes and making her itch.

I used a shop vac most of the time too... but often it just wasn't convenient to hold the vac and operate another power tool (sander) in the other hand. It was also VERY noisy. Also the shop vac isnt exactly hypo-allergenic. No hepa filter there for sure. Ony the guys from California need that stuff, right?

Anyway, I digress... So sorry for the cheap shot, Al baby, etc.

Well here are some picks of the PVC pipe I put in the shop ("Laundry room" dammit), to help mitigate the problem. And it works to a pretty good extent! The kid stopped itchin. I can get back to working on walnut.

from shop vac,

then goes up to pipe in rafters,

then across shop, and down to the device.

In this case a belt sander...

I forgot - it cost about $15USD.

[ Edited by: tikigap 2007-02-13 17:19 ]