I was thinking about this approach lately. I usually grab the blow gun tip
on my air compressor to thoroughly clean up my table saw. Then I shoot it
at the floor to whisk it clean. A leaf blower seems more civil for sweeping
the floor. On the other hand, there are two drawbacks to either technique -
you create a dusty mess to breathe (dust mask advised) and it ruins the
freshly washed and shined Lexus sitting on the other side of the garage.

:-)


"John Aiton" wrote in message
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I finally completed a bedroom set project this afternoon and decided it
was time to clean the shop. High time, at that.

So I went about it with the shop vac, alternately sucking and blowing,
with only marginal results, when the dawn came. The trusty electric
leaf blower. I opened the shop doors and fired it up.

It was like taking a ride in a dust devil. A veritable maelstrom of
dust swirled throughout the building. Fasteners flew from the bench and
splattered against the wall. Dead flies blew through the service door
like a charge of buckshot. Small tools and offcuts clattered across the
floor. The dust simply billowed out the overhead door and it must have
looked like a small cattle drive.
The process took about fifteen minutes.

I turned on a large fan to vent the settling dust through the service
door, and walked over to the house for a short break. When I returned,
the air had cleared, and the shop was clean as a whistle. Even the
walls gleamed. The technique works.

But don't try it in your basement.....!

John