Well, isn't that one of the niftiest things! Good tip. What I've done is shape hammers while a fan blows the fibers away from me and out of the shop. But I definitely like the vacuum idea better. -- JF On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Tom Driscoll <tomtuner at verizon.net> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Tom Driscoll <tomtuner at verizon.net> > *To:* tom <tomtuner at verizon.net> > *Sent:* Thursday, February 24, 2011 9:44 AM > > > List, > I'm one of those people who can get a terrible case bronchitis from dust > inhalation and although I've been better about wearing a mask I found this > trick very effective whilst reshaping hammers. > I had tried to rig up a holder of some sort to hold the shop vac wand > without much success. The dust and felt are sucked right down and into the > vac. > My right hand was holding the camera as the film crew is on hiatis. > > Tom D. > > P.S. Look at the noise ratings on the shop type vacs. Some of these > screamers can be quite unpleasant. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110224/dfcba9e0/attachment.htm>
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