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Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: G10 dust!

From: Steve Greenfield <alienrelics@...>
Date: 2002-06-04

I was thinking that if you use one of those pencil die grinders,
you could use the air exhaust to vacuum the dust up.

I have my little sandblasting cabinet set up with a small valve on
the exhaust hose so that it acts as a vortex vacuum to blow the
fine dust outside. Not very elegant, but it works.

Steve Greenfield

--- Alan Marconett KM6VV <KM6VV@...> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> I guess I'll have to do that. I've used cardboard baffles to
> keep brass
> and aluminum dust/chips down, they normally just collect beside
> the mill
> in the tray the mill sits in. I got a STACK of dust (and some
> blew
> around) from a PCB the size of a QUARTER!
>
> What do you think of Phenolic board? Can you use it? MUCH
> cleaner, and
> nicer on endmills!
>
> I'm also thinking I might set up a small "hand vacuum" to keep
> THIS dust
> down.
>
> Alan KM6VV


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