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Arbalist:
Thanks for your thoughts Pete.

BenH:

--- Quote from: awemawson on July 16, 2013, 01:42:36 PM ---I've bought second hand so not sure of new prices. Could you have two hinged bars one on each wall, to fold them out of the way when not in use. Or mount them on a pole and rotate it to furl them like a sail?

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Yeah that stuff is quite cheap, we had a couple of 'doors' made up at work very inexpensive. From here http://www.pvc-strip.co.uk/pvc-rolls/standard-temperature-grade-clear-and-ribbed-pvc-strip.html even cheaper if you buy a roll and make a holder yourself..

Arbalist:
Thanks Ben, that's helpful.

Dawai:
At one time I had a shower curtain around mine, on both sides.  I think it got wrapped around something on a truck leaving with promises to replace it. (long gone)

THE cool mist, flood coolant is a thought too, I had books on shelves around the room with lil MOLD spots. And when I took a 2x2 arm off it to connect to a cutting torch for some T-bucket brackets, a real good fire in several places at once. (mine is a cnc). I put a suction vacuum on the mill once for the cool mist vapor.. and when you'd turn it on, the room would go immediately to outside temperature when all the heat got sucked out.

They move when you get a real big item, mine skates around and you'd never know it is 3400lbs. I finally quit running conduit to it and just strung the wires into the control panel.

THE old cnc'ed 24" stroke shaper was the king of throwing chips, they'd stick up in the osb wall six feet away.. very scary to be around that thing with it rolling off chips. Make you want to hold a shield like captain america. It got sold to make shop floor space. I replaced it with a tiny one, but never got the drives on it. (then sold it too)

Meldonmech:
Hi
        I fly cut a lot of aluminium, and flying swarf is a big problem.  I built a perspex adjustable screen, which is attached to the milling machine, using T slots in the table.  The screen is pivoted to open outwards.  This contains most of the chips flying towards the operator, as I try to feed the workpiece from right to left. 

                                                                                                                Cheers David
                           

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