Hi Bob,
I don't remember to have seen your thread opening pics although we have discussed shop "cleaning' often. I shouldn't have because I never posted anything so, I was looking at the first lot of pics and was watching places where the wood lathe chips did land and I thought to myself, "half of Bob's problem is not being able to retain much of what the wood lathe throws away in all directions, chips landing yards away.
This in fact, is not only Bob's problem, is shared with many of us, even though in my case, I have a "dedicated" wood lathe room, that I had to make some modification when I moved up here, to be able to stand up and fit in there. This "dedicated" wood-lathe room only has 3 walls and once was a chicken shed and believe it or not, the only are in all my work-shop area, including the "lolly-shop" that had a cement floor, and the only one, still...!
Despite that, I try to control a little of the "rain" of wood-chips/shavings that come out of the wood-lathe headstock, when I'm in the mood for making shavings, its pretty bad...!
I think I have seen a couple of dozen different ways people built to control the amount of shavings flying everywhere, and only one, a few years back I saw that took my vote and I know did catch 95% of what is produced waste when woodturning, according to the workshop owner, he got really I mean really fed-up with the shavings and dust produced when on the lathe, his wife was on his back every single day because of it, and you know why...??? because he had a shared garage and the wife parked the fancy vehicle there everyday.
He also admitted that he had the gut-full of washing her vehicle, to remove the dust and make it sparkly shiny. He tried plastic partitions all all sorts of things until one day he decided that he had enough. He wasn't allowed to built his shed in the backyard but he was allowed to make a couple of holes the the back wall and use about 1 meter of lawn next to the house back wall so, and as a retired bloke with plenty of turnings to do and a fairly wealthy wallet, he invested just under $10,000 in an super majestic Cyclone system with a 8" diameter hose to a specially made hood for his wood-lathe.
That thing was so powerful in suction capabilities that, sand paper and anything he had in is hand and that he wood lose his grip, would be sucked in 1,000 miles per hour. Everything that could produce dust was connected to that system and I can tell you, when it comes to serious wood turning, nothing else will work.
I went from a 1HP dust collector to a 3HP industrial type with huge double bags, and even with the biggest and best hood the money can buy, there is, is available to buy, still far from being enough so, there is not much one can do, when the volume of wood turned is counted in tonnes, wood shavings are simply a "feature" of a woodturning shop/shed...!
Anyway, you more recent pics show the amount of time and effort you have put into it however, looking at a couple of your pics, where I see all those "rounds" with the nice white identification marks on them, and stacked up like the Roman pillars ( music to my ears...!:wink
, I'm sorry to remind you that, your clean shop won't last long...!
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Exhibition September 2014, here I come...!:wink::biggrin:
Cheers
George
