Vaccum for a milling machine.

[VicParticipant @vic]

I use a Nilfisk wet and dry vac on my milling machine all the time. Blowing stuff around with compressed air was frowned upon at my last place. It’s an excellent way of forcing dust and swarf into places it wouldn’t normally reach and isn’t clever from a H&S aspect either. There was still one idiot that used to use one, including blowing his own clothes down with it at the end of the day.

[not done it yetParticipant @notdoneityet]

Don’t worry too much with long ribbons of swarf from the mill. Only when drilling is that likely a problem. Once on the floor, chips are easily cleaned up – nowhere to fall further, generally.

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Blowing swarf with compressed air may feature on YouTube, but it's plain bad practice. Don't do it. Vic explains why!

Always take Internet videos and advice with a pinch of salt. Anybody can publish anything, including stupid bad habits. Good fun counting the errors in certain YouTube contributions; some come over like the Hazard Perception section of the Driving Theory Test!

Dave

[VicParticipant @vic]

Some of the stuff I see on YouTube is really quite worrying at times. The Americans do have a penchants for blowing stuff away with compressed air guns – it’s much more fun than hoovering it up. I saw one guy blowing a cloud of wood dust out of his shop into the yard, no doubt for the benefit of anyone walking past. They seem to wear gloves for absolutely everything as well for some reason.

[SteviegtrParticipant @steviegtr]

Posted by Vic on 18/03/2020 18:39:26:

Some of the stuff I see on YouTube is really quite worrying at times. The Americans do have a penchants for blowing stuff away with compressed air guns – it’s much more fun than hoovering it up. I saw one guy blowing a cloud of wood dust out of his shop into the yard, no doubt for the benefit of anyone walking past. They seem to wear gloves for absolutely everything as well for some reason.

I'm sure there are a couple of members on here who use a leaf blower to clear the garage of wood dust.

Steve.

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