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I was using my flycutter today and now my shop floor is covered with crunchy curls of steel. Has anyone made anything to corral these chips to a smaller area?
I took and old clothing rack and hung a small canvas over it . It keeps chips in one spot and you can move it from one machine to another and it's easy to store. It's nice when using an angle grinder too.
I don't mind sweeping as much as the hot bullets too! Ouch!!Someone on here (can't remember who) made some small adjustable ones. They were small squares of acrylic or lexan on a metal rod, with a magnet base. Great Idea I thought. For a while I was using a large plastic storage bin with the bottom cut out. Place it over the vice. It worked pretty well. I have since retired that, and have purchased some 80/20 to build a nicer enclosure.
Personally I don't mind sweeping that much, but I hate getting those smoking blue chips down my shirt, or on the inside of my elbow :yikes:
I would recommend Lexan/polycarbonate over Plexiglas/acrylic. Acrylic can shatter into sharp fragments if struck. Polycarbonate is what they use for face shields, safety glasses...and bullet proof windows.That's a good idea! I was wondering if you could heat 1/8" plexi-glass and bend it to a shallow "L" shape and attach it to some 1 1/2" aluminum angle