American Woodturner -- Call for Tips!

[Joshua Friend]

We are looking for your best woodturning Tips -- for use in either American Woodturner or Woodturning FUNdamentals. What clever solutions have you come up with to solve pesky shop problems -- or to make your shop time more efficient and enjoyable? Please send your best Tips, with high res images, to Joshua Friend, editor@woodturner.org. Happy Turning!

 

[Paul M. Kaplowitz]

Here is a simple but important Tip: Before you sweep your shop floor spray it with water. This will clump the dust and keep it from rising and you breathing it. Buy an inexpensive 1 or 2 gallon plastic spayer.

 

[Gerald Lawrence]

Here is a simple but important Tip: Before you sweep your shop floor spray it with water. This will clump the dust and keep it from rising and you breathing it. Buy an inexpensive 1 or 2 gallon plastic spayer.

Seems you could wind up with mud on the floor. When I was young my dad used a treated sawdust to sweep the floor. Basically a oil treated sawdust which would attract the dust and then it is swept up.

 

[Brian Gustin]

Seems you could wind up with mud on the floor. When I was young my dad used a treated sawdust to sweep the floor. Basically a oil treated sawdust which would attract the dust and then it is swept up.

Especially after the damp leftover dust mixed in water dries - many concrete floors are not glassy smooth finishes (like mine - shop floor is rough textured concrete, a real pain to sweep up fine dust, so I'll often do a vacuuming every now and then, and eventually I clean out an entire side of the shop with everything moved out or to other side, and power wash the floors....)

 

[Russ Braun]

There is a product called clean sweep that works well. I just vacuum after sweeping.

 

[Bill Boehme]

When I was young my dad used a treated sawdust to sweep the floor. Basically a oil treated sawdust which would attract the dust and then it is swept up.

Green Sweep is what it was commonly called a half-century ago when I was working part-time as a flunky/gopher in a manufacturing job in order to pay my way through college.