Another Question about Dust Filtration?

[turkey-slayer]

I'm looking at helping to clear the air in my basement shop area. My shop is in the basement area of the house and that is where the problem is. I have a good Jet DC hooked up at most all of my shop equipment such at the lathe, bandsaw and sander and I use either a Trend air protection or 3M respirator mask. The Trend and the 3M mask work very good but what I'm trying to do is clear the air further of the fine dust that gets left behind. Would a air cleaner work better such as a JDS, Jet or Delta Filtration with remote or timer setup? Or, have any of you made something similar to a filtration cleaner for your shop using a box fan with several throw away filters behind where the fan pulls air into it and if so how well would such a system work given the fact its homemade? Like to hear some ideas on this. Thanks

 

[Russianwolf]

yes, it will reduce the amount of free dust running around.

I made one using a gable fan and furnace filters. I used 3 of the nicer pleated filters and still wasn't catching everything, but it was catching a good bit. The idealwold be one with the sub 1 micron filters that are used in the commercial ones if you do build yourself.

 

[toolcrazy]

I have a JDS dust filter and it works great and they say it is a sub 1 micron filter. Mine is a two stage system with an electro static first stage. I don't have a DC, yet and needed to control floating dust so I didn't have to wear my Triton all the time. It will clear my 350 square foot shop very quickly. I also set it to run for an hour after I lock up.

 

[Woodchopper]

The JDS system is nice.
And it's made in USA. <g>

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