On Sat, 5 Aug 2017 14:20:09 -0500, -MIKE-
wrote:

On 8/5/17 2:12 PM, John McGaw wrote:
On 8/5/2017 2:54 PM, -MIKE- wrote:
On 8/5/17 1:21 PM, John McGaw wrote:
On 8/4/2017 10:44 PM, Doug Miller wrote:
Any of you guys use a Roomba (or other robot vacuum cleaner) to
keep your shop floor clean? Just wondering if it works...



The best answer is "The company thought of that and made a product
for cleaning shops and it was a total bust so it was dropped."

https://www.amazon.com/iRobot-110-Di...ct_top?ie=UTF8




Shops are not meant to be _totally_ clean. If your shop is immaculate
then you aren't using it right.

I get what you're saying, John, and agree with the premise.
However, any time I do finishing, I sure wish my shop was "immaculate"
because it would save me a whole lot of time knocking the fuzz off
between coats.

There are air cleaners for the airborne stuff and I see a place for
something that would capture all that stuff on the floor before it gets
airborne.


Something along these lines works beautifully in removing fine dust from
floors. I always find that, if you don't have a dedicated finishing
area, cleaning up as best you can, waiting a couple of hours, and then
proceeding carefully so as not to raise any remaining dust works best.
This also means turning off any 'dust filters', fans, heaters, or air
conditioners since each of these will sabotage your efforts to get dust
out of the air. That can make things pretty uncomfortable for a while
depending on season and your shop.

http://www.homedepot.com/p/ZEP-50-lb...EP50/202056504

Wow, that's a new one on me! I never knew such a thing existed.
I've used similar things for oil and spilled paint, but I never imagined
something like that for dust.
They used that stuff at the high school back in the sixties/seventies
all the time. - it was a "dust magnet" compound.