Magnet catch, Minimize Your Dust!!

Battle Creek Knives

Battle Creek Knives

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I'm not sure if I seen this here or somewhere else but I thought I'd try it out..

I had an old speaker I was tossing out so I tore the magnet off and mounted it under my grinder to help keep dust at bay..

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after grinding bevels on 3 large knives here's what it looks like..
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seems to work pretty good as there was little to no dust on my bench like there normally is when grinding, you have to keep your eye on it after it gets all hairy it'll start to catch like steel wool..

can't remember where I stole this idea, but just thought I'd share it.. I have to come up with whatever I can until I can get a dust collector down the road...
 
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If your sprinkle the metal dust over a campfire you will get sparkles and impress the ladies. Try a little dust on the stove to see what i mean.
 
Patrice Lemée;10450714 said:
Maybe put a plastic bag over that. When full, flip over the bag and throw away.
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Won't the plastic bag melt or light up after the first few hot sparks.


Leadfoot
 
My bench has welding magnets. I get them at HF when they are on sale. There are six of them sitting along the belt path. They catch a lot of metal. They will also start glowing when the metal dust catches a hot spark while hogging steel. It usually goes out on its own, but if it is glowing intensely, I just dunk the magnet in the slack bucket. I would bet that these magnets have removed over 100 pounds of metal dust in the years that they have been in use.

I use the plastic bag trick with the magnets I have sitting under the band saw, but the baggies don't hold up on the grinding bench. The baggie trick is really good for when you are cleaning up the bench and surrounding floor. As said, when done with the clean-up, just turn the baggie inside out over the dust and remove the clean magnet.

On the bench magnets, I just run a gloved finger around the groove and pinch off the bulk of the metal shavings. You do not want to do this with bare fingers!
 
bladsmth said:
My bench has welding magnets. I get them at HF when they are on sale. There are six of them sitting along the belt path. They catch a lot of metal. They will also start glowing when the metal dust catches a hot spark while hogging steel. It usually goes out on its own, but if it is glowing intensely, I just dunk the magnet in the slack bucket. I would bet that these magnets have removed over 100 pounds of metal dust in the years that they have been in use.

I use the plastic bag trick with the magnets I have sitting under the band saw, but the baggies don't hold up on the grinding bench. The baggie trick is really good for when you are cleaning up the bench and surrounding floor. As said, when done with the clean-up, just turn the baggie inside out over the dust and remove the clean magnet.

On the bench magnets, I just run a gloved finger around the groove and pinch off the bulk of the metal shavings. You do not want to do this with bare fingers!
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That's a really good idea. Huh!! Freaking geniuses around here. :)
 
I was thinking of doing that with hard drive magnets (cuz I have access to so many) - only put them on the outside lower half of the slack bucket, so it pulls the filings down into the water. They're powerful neodymium magnets, but you'd still need quite a few. Also in the bottom of my hydraulic reservoir, once I get it, to catch metal etc before it goes into the pump. I haven't tested it, but I like the magnet ideas!
 
Patrice Lemée;10450714 said:
Maybe put a plastic bag over that. When full, flip over the bag and throw away.
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Don't throw away, you have there, the start of some coffee tin damascus.
 
The hard drive magnets are strong enough that you can just slap a piece of steel on the outside of a plastic bucket and the magnet on the inside and it stays wherever you want...or on thin material around the grinder, for that matter.
I teach metal fab every year or two for a "build your own wind turbine" class- I partly get paid in gizmos and fancy magnets!
Andy G.
 
dperk said:
an electro-magnet would be cool! You cut the power and the particles fall off :)
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I've been toying with this idea myself. I also use a speaker magnet under my grinder. I stick a piece of
bar stock on top to do the catching and separate the two for cleanup.
 
I use a few 1 inch cube rare earth magnets around my grinders, dust is minimal with them. Wrap in a plastic bag for easy removal of the dust.
 
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