Welding in the work shop

[pigdoc]

I am very lucky to have a large industrial surplus seller just a couple of miles from where I live. I'm in there on almost a monthly basis for bolts and screws, steel, stainless, aluminum, or even HDPE stock. Or, just to wander around and see 'what's new'.

A couple of years ago, I bought several of those tinted vinyl welding stand-up screens for my son's shop, for like, $20 each. He uses them all the time. Also great for containing grinding sparks which are just as much a damage hazard in small shops as welding sparks.

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I've also bought carts, steel shelving, cabinets and stuff like that. Pennies on the dollar. Lots of stuff is barely used. A lot of it is sold by the pound.


Hugo, one of those squirrel cage blowers would be helpful in your situation also, to push the nasty stuff out under a garage door... I've seen portable ones, about 12", with a plastic housing and a handle on top to move them. They move a LOT of air.

-Paul

 

[Mark_BX25D]

Hugo, one of those squirrel cage blowers would be helpful in your situation also, to push the nasty stuff out under a garage door... I've seen portable ones, about 12", with a plastic housing and a handle on top to move them. They move a LOT of air.

Are you talking about a carpet dryer? I use one to ventilate my basement. Push the air out one of the foundation vents. Works great.


Once in a while there's a good deal on the furnace blower on Craigslist. Usually 3 speed, and they move a ton of air.

 

[chim]

If your welding is mostly done in a given area it wouldn't be too hard to rig something like we did at work, on a smaller scale. I bought a few of these "Monkey Arms". For our application we needed to cover fairly large areas. Each of our guys had a large table for some work and an area near the table for welding larger things and using pipe rotators. I used inline fans that we mounted to building steel and fabbed larger swing frames from pipe. The one picture below shows the setup (prior to running the discharge out through the wall). We had large exhaust fans that were OK in warmer weather but sucked too much warm air in Winter.

Being a hoarder of things that may some day be useful, I have a couple gas furnace draft inducers with 2"-ish connections that could work for such a thing.

Monkey:

Super Max Extractor Arm

Super Max fume Extractor Arm

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Rotator:

PR3 Pipe Rotators

Key Plant PR3 pipe rotators offer a 3-tonne drive and idler set, specially designed for lower weight and small diameter pipe work.

www.keyplant.com

 

[pigdoc]

Are you talking about a carpet dryer?

Exactly. My experiences are similar to yours. Very convenient, effective, and versatile.

 

[trikepilot]

Hugo, one of those squirrel cage blowers would be helpful in your situation also, to push the nasty stuff out under a garage door... I've seen portable ones, about 12", with a plastic housing and a handle on top to move them. They move a LOT of air.

I literally just bought one of these last week to exhaust mig welding fumes and smoke from the shop.

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Works well with the end of the hose out the doggie door flap.