[geeks] Dust control in the workshop...

[Michael Kaegler]

Short story:
I need to pull concrete dust out of the air in my [computer] 
workshop. Neighbor is a concrete factory; this is a *lot* of dust. 
Cost and noise are factors. Ideas?

Long story:
A bunch of friends and I rented about 900sqft of space near all of 
us, ran a big internet connection there with a /25, then put all our 
servers, projects, and tools there to pool resources. Its cool. We 
can run anything there...if we can cool it.

We found the perfect place in terms of size, location, and cost...the 
one downside: it shares a building with a cement factory. Dust like 
you haven't seen. Servers running for more than a year have enough 
dust that they should be taken outside before being blown out. Its 
very nice dust... it doesn't actually cause us problems with our 
optical drives, it doesn't short power supplies, it doesn't insulate 
heat sinks... it doesn't do anything. But its an annoyance when it 
piles up and I grow concerned there are unanticipated long-term 
implications.

We don't share HVAC with the cement folks, so its not like its 
constantly being fed with dust, but they're in the same building. 
When we moved in [to their old stock room] we basically used a water 
hose to get all the dust we could.

I'm imagining a air cleaner with replaceable or (even better) 
washable filters. I considered building our own but I don't have a 
clear idea of how to design one.

Anyone have ideas or resources?

TIA!
-porkchop


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  Michael "Porkchop" Kaegler, Network Analyst, 845 575 3061
  Marist College,  3399 North Road,  Poughkeepsie, NY 12601

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