Larry Jaques fired this volley in
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Nah! If you don't have a dust collector, think Shop Vac, Mikey. Catch
it at the tool and there is no mess.

Larry, you'd have to do a quite workman-like job of collecting that dust.
Wood flour is the bane of metal machinery. It's also damned hard to
collect all of it with a vacuum cleaner -- there's just not enough volume
OR large enough cross-section of moving air to catch all the fugative
dust. That job really requires a high-volume dust collector.

Nahh... I don't like wood on the metal lathe, either. Were it me, I'd be
backing that thing up with a sheet of type I PVC -- something I can glue
to effectively, then later dissolve or de-bond.

LLoyd