js responds:

It looks like such an obvious hazard to me. But you do have a point about
them coexisting for years. Wasn't any dust collection back in the day, and
they only had wood or coal to keep em warm.


I thought seriously about a woodstove in my shop a few years ago. I have a good
friend who runs ye olde basic woodstove, cleans the flue when he remembers (not
often), knocks the dust off the top when he lights the stove, has a pretty
close to code set-up, and has never had a single problem. It sometimes makes me
nervous.

I know another guy, nice guy but I don't know him well enough to call him a
friend. Interviewed James for Woodshop News some years ago and discovered his
shop had wood heat. You'd never know it: The stove is in the basement, almost
totally separate from the woodworking area. He is in the shop ever day, follows
every known care, and has never had a single problem.

You figure it out. I put in an electric furnace, free from a local HVAC dealer
who had pulled it out as he installed a completely new set-up for someone (this
is common, and sometimes the dealers have to pay to get rid of the stuff, so at
least check it out).

Charlie Self
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." Disraeli as
quoted by Mark Twain