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Default Dryer exhaust filtering

On Friday, November 8, 2019 at 4:10:46 PM UTC-5, Terry Coombs wrote:
On 11/8/2019 2:48 PM, Clare Snyder wrote:
On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 13:45:18 -0600, Terry Coombs
wrote:

Â*Out here in the woods we heat with ... wait for it ... wood . It's a
dry heat ... and while we don't often use the electric dryer , when we
do I'd kinda like to keep that heat and moisture in the house . So I'm
looking for a way to filter the minor amounts of lint that get past the
in-dryer filter screen . I've used old pantyhose legs in the past with
limited success but I think there must be a better way . Anybody done
this and have a suggestion ?


A cyclone - like a workshop dust collector? or even a "drop box" with
baffles? then run the exhaust through a furnace filter to catch the
rest.

Â*Hmm , great minds and all that ... I was thinking of a box with a
furnace filter mounted up on the wall behind the dryer . A cyclone
probably wouldn't do much , dryer lint has so little mass that it might
not separate . We have a big enough problem with dust and dog hair (he's
worth the bother) , I don't want to add dryer lint to it .

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and crochety - and armed .
Get outta my woods !


Have you tried this to make sure that other than filtering, it works OK.
You're going to be dumping a lot of moisture in one area and I would
expect you could have condensation on windows, any cold walls, etc.