Getting into the nooks and crannies

[Ed62]

When I clean the sawdust out of my saws, I'm never satisfied with the ease/quality of cleaning out the nooks and crannies. What do you guys do? Use a brush to brush it out before vacuuming? Use a small, flexible attachment? Blow it out? Just curious.

Ed

[Richard in Smithville]

For cleaning out the hard to reach areas of my lathe, I have cut a section of ABS pipe ( I can't remember the diameter but its around 3/4 inside ) and built an adaptor to attatch to the shop vac hose. It gets most of the dust.

[Pappy]

I blow it out with the compressor. Since I work outside it isn't a problem.

[bing!]

I can get most of the dust out using the extension wands and the micro cleaning accessory kit.



I tried blasting compressed air to a relatively clean table saw once indoors. DOH!

[LCHIEN]

air compressor, blower nozzle.
Turn on the shop air cleaner before doing it.

[Bill Stock]

I normally clean with the dust collector, so there is not much that it won't suck up. But if there's any really buried stuff I blow.

[cabinetman]

We're supposed to clean in there?

Vacuum what the DC misses, and then blow out.
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[Ed62]

I tried something similar to what Richard did, but I used a piece of flexible, plastic hose. The results were only marginally good.

Since I'm not a big fan of using compressed air, I think I'll make something out of PVC pipe.

Ed

[pelligrini]

I'll use a brush on the areas where the dust is sticking and then vacumn. The round one in theis set from HF works well. http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=42595. Quite often, just air doesn't get the stuff out, especially at the gears.

[SARGE..g-47]

A brush like Pelligrini posted the link too but.. they call it an art brush... it is the same as the brushes mechanics have been using forever to clean grit and grime from gears.. etc. You can pick one up at Pep Boys.. most Auto Zones for about the same price.

[cabinetman]

I'll use a brush on the areas where the dust is sticking and then vacumn. The round one in theis set from HF works well. http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=42595. Quite often, just air doesn't get the stuff out, especially at the gears.

That brush works pretty good. The "acid brushes" work good too for small areas.
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[herb fellows]

To get out the real 'stuck in the corners' stuff, I use plastic pick up sticks to loosen it up. About $2.00 for about 50 of them at your local toy store, no scratching up the works. I've had them for 5 years, maybe used up 10.