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I have been fighting that perennial lure builders dust problem for what seems like forever, and about a year back I thought I had it beat with a double 'cyclone' filter and a third automotive style filter in the vacuum cleaner, but NO, I was still blowing clods of dust from my more than adequate nose. I disc sand all my blanks (so these are semi "hand carved" ) , this dust from the sander is very fine (like talc), so in the past 3 months I have been taking a different tack and have installed a ducted system on my sander and band saw (with 'blast gates'), where the dust is sucked away through 10cm ducts by an old (and large) evaporative cooler fan, which I have been hoarding for 'that special job' for the past 25 years. These cooler fans spin pretty slow, so through a 10cm (4”) duct the 'suck' is pretty low but the volume is high, and is enough to get the finest dust away without the whining noise of a vacuum cleaner or 'cyclonic' dust extractor, just a low HUMMMM in your ears, you can even hear the phone ring. With this setup I was getting all the dust away, but because it was so fine, again I was eventually getting it back with wind / fan draft etc. So here is my solution , it seems to work well so far – I figured if I could just wet the dust it would drop and stick to the concrete, and when it dried it blew back at me ---- so I added a 'condenser' to catch the excess 'wet' dust which then drips into a tray, it uses about 10 L (5,5 Gal) of water / hour and so far no more 'BOOGIES' in the nose. I was thinking larger ducting would be better but stuck with the10cm (4”) because - 1. I don't have the space and- 2. I think the air speed may be too high for the small amount of mister water to 'wet' the dust - Air speed = in 8m/s—out 1.5m/s -- (OR --In 25' /sec ---- Out 5'/sec) –Reduced flow out is due to large exhaust duct = 34cm (apx 14”) I have been using this for about 2 months now and it eats that deadly fine dust, just throw it on the garden when you have finished. If I had the space I would use 15 Cm duct (6”) to increase the in flow, for saws etc. Pete Ducting I used a lot of irrigation bits Micro Spray head/nozzles( and collected dust (w/o condenser) Dust trapped in water before condenser With condenser screen Dust after fitting condenser screen Dry dust in screen

Lakeside Bait Molds has been absolutely excellent to me (and others as i understand it.) I have several full on custom molds from them, they price their work very competitively and have always delivered when they say they will. my first molds were requested with a very tight deadline, and Chuck and Paulette went above and beyond to deliver. I have several more molds in the works with them as we speak Bear has always treated me well as well as bass tackle. Del can go suck an egg.

Ya it was actually really easy with this stuff. Its aluminum foil tape that you can get at any hardware store. I got the generic Ace Hardware brand but I think 3M makes the better stuff. http://www.acehardware.com/product/index.jsp?productId=1273881&kw=aluminum+tape&origkw=aluminum+tape&searchId=49774142984