graphite dust collection

[specprogrammer]

Beleive it or not, we use a shop vac as a dust collector when we cut graphite. They wear out about once a year but thats a pretty cheap alternative to a Torit system. We have a Torit but it needs a filter and they are crazy expensive. At least they were the last time I checked. The boss is tired of buying shop vacs though. I'd like to know what you guys are using.

[Thee Rickster ™]

I cut graphite on a Haas VF3.

 

My mold mases are graphite that vary from 8'x8'x2'

to 18'x30'x12'

 

this is our set up

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I cut a shi! load of graphite weekly

this Dust hog removes the air in our 6000sq ft

unit every 10 mins, It sucks

[specprogrammer]

That aint no shop vac!

[specprogrammer]

Who is the manufacturer of the collector?

[Fred @ Slate Industries]

We use http://www.aafintl.com

Cheaper then Torit

Total cost $7,500 installed with hoses and duct work.

[Thee Rickster ™]

They make gigantic ones as well as smaller then

like the one we use

 

They are called dust hog

 

We bought it then called an industrial duct work

guy to pipe it around the needed machines

to our liking

 

Dust-Hog

[Thee Rickster ™]

Here is our other setup for the vf6

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[Programinator]

wish i had that for all the phenelic i was cutting today. Thank god i just finished the last of it before lunch. That stuff was killing me and my tooling.

[edmBosto]

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we use a shop vac as a dust collector when we cut graphite.

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Oh man that must be tougher than it should be.

I wonder if the machine sale company has a micro dust collector. It may be on the web. We have heavy duty dust collectors for the surface grinders along with the CNC MIkron. (We used to grind all our electrodes).

 

You must not cut much graphite if you use a vacuum.

Look at the MDS sheet on graphite. It's not safe after many yrs. of exposure.

[JB7280]

11 hours ago, atmax01 said:

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You're 16 years too late.  

[JoshC]

just an advertisement is all that was, glad it looks like someone took down the post, if your able you should edit your quote and remove that link to not let them advertise or share links here. if you want to that is, i accidently quoted a spammer the other day and went back and removed their links once i realized someone else already removed their entire post.