Smoking in the MachineShop

Hey Cliff looks like you've attracted a fanboi.

Electrostatics do work pretty well on smoke.

Wow. I am glad you thought of all this. I will admit I have some work to do in all areas discussed. I am going to print out this post and a few others and bring up some new and detailed topics at a meeting at the end of the month. What would you say would be an acceptable temperature range? How low would be too low? It is really cold in the manual area but they are old Sharpe Knee mills. Not the most expensive. I will be looking towards one or two new mills I can fit the ProtoTrac onto.

My wife's grandfather smoked until he was 85 and drank whiskey every day also. Had a stroke at the department of motor vehicles renewing his license at 85. It's probably not the butts as much as it is the rest of the stuff in the air.

More like a fanbot.=20

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-JN-

Hmm--looks like Cliffy now has his own personal troll......

I betcha his mother would be so proud !!!

In all fairness, it *was* a blog I cited above--apparently it just happened to support both our views to some extent.

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FWIW :

I happen to smoke, and my being around cigarette smoke bothers me absolutely none.....

...BUT...

I *am* _terribly bothered_ by wood-smoke these days and also from the smell of burning paper or cardboard.....go figure, huh ???

For this reason, I would still suggest some filtration ( probly electrostatic ) or air-exchange system be installed ( if affordable ) regardless of whether smoking is allowed in the building or not......there's all kinds of nasties in a machine shop, any number of which certain individuals could eventually develop sensitivity to over time.

Ok I'm in California, but my temperature range for working can vary with the seasons, and my acclimatization. I find I can work fairly wel, in daytime, between 55F in the Winter and 85F in the Summer. The closer to 72F and 78F, the better.

Above 95F, I'm taking shade breaks, and at 100F, I'll go home. F**** it!

I have been up at a lake in late fall (November 20th), Elevation 4300 feet, and woke up at 5:00 a.m., got out of my sleeping bag, and crawled out of the tent to see 1/2 inch of ice, in the water jug and frost everywhere, in the dim morning light. I think it was down to 26F. But by 8:00a.m. with no wind and standing in the Sunshine, by the lake, fishing, it was 40F, and comfortable.

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I am concerned about how the machines function with in a wide range of temperatures. The people can work to get warmed up.

Sound like my windshield just about any morning this winter. The half inch of ice anyway.

Im talking about the larger ceiling mounted units--like the ones you might see in the 'smoking section' of a bar or restaraunt........these pick up the dirty air vertically from near center of the area and then broadcast the cleaned air at a high velocity at near ceiling height, along a more or less horizontal plane....effectively creating a "zone" wherein the air is continually picked up, cleaned and then re-circulated........

Do you exercise? I have met smokers who exercise and you can't tell they are smokers. There isn't the overabundance of phlegm in their voices heard in sedentary smokers. I think aerobic exercise probably processes the phlegm out more efficiently.

Everyone that knows me knows I am kidding. If you read earlier post about all the guys get to do while working. They even got friends stopping in from time to time but I had to put that one.

I am looking for the photos of the shop so I can put them up. Give me a few minutes here.

Like I said it is a small shop.