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Drowning in grinding dust...help!

Quickstart:
Lungs were not designed for inhaling dusts of any kind; they'll all bad for you.
When polishing jewelry, you can use some sort of containment or exhaust system, and/or you can protect your lungs and your eyes with hoods or respirators. Read on ...

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Q. Hi, I have a small jewelry shop and do quite a bit of glass and metal grinding with various polishing wheel materials using a hand-held flex shaft but the dust is killing me. I cannot have a system that requires a compressor because of the noise factor but I can exhaust to the outside. Any suggestions?

Kieli Storm
- Scituate, Massachusetts USA
2007

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A. Perhaps a high performance industrial vacuum cleaner may be adapted to your situation. Wood sanding and other hand tools incorporate such devices.

Guillermo Marrufo
Monterrey, NL, Mexico

A. Rio Grande has a number of dust collection devices for this very problem.

Neil Bell
Albuquerque, New Mexico

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A. The absolute cheapest, although still dirty way is something we use at our company, look for a Willson paint hood, that's right, paint hood, made out of cotton with a plastic viewing lens sewn into it ⇨
It not only keeps the dust out of your hair and eyes but you shouldn't have to get hot wearing a 3M mask either. They're about 10 bucks.

Brandt Hinton
- Elk River, Minnesota, USA

A. Kieli,
I am a woodturner and carver and had the same kind of a problem when sanding. I invented the Resp-O-Rator ⇨
which is a mouthpiece respirator that works under a full face shield too. I wear glasses and could not see close up with a respirator strapped to my face. It blocks your vision. Should work.

James Duxbury
- Graham, North Carolina, U.S.A.
2007

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