Re: Fire risk when wood routing

I have to agree. We used to remove all the metal chips at the end of
the day. Then we did a 'government' project ( the boss wanted a
greenhouse) so we did a lot of wood for 2 days. cleaned up the chips
daily, and put them in 55 gallon drums each day.

On Monday, one of the drums was empty. We worked Saturday, and the
boss was in on Sunday and no one ever saw or smelled the smoke. it
simmered for 2 days and just burnt itself out.

Had it been inside, or on wood or had more air, well, that would have
been a totally different story.

Dave

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., "Brian" <ka1bbg@w...> wrote:
> Sawdust is famous for hiding a small fire for days even. I empty
all the
> sawdust from the machine and put it outside in a metal container.
There is a
> sawmill near me and right on the side of the river, and about every
4 years
> they burn down. I have been here 18 years and its the 5th time the
other
> day. They tend to leave everything full of sawdust when they leave
at night.
> the sawmill i worked at we had to shovel all the sawdust up and put
it on
> the pile. they have had a sawmill for 50 years and only once a fire
set by
> an engine fuel leaked to hot manifold. run all your sawdust into
metal cans
> and move them away from the building, if they catch fire you still
have a
> building! cul brian f.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "rainnea" <rainnea@b...>
> To: <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y...>
> Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2002 4:45 AM
> Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Fire risk when wood routing
>
>
> > I had some wood dust / chippings on my mill bed start smoldering
from
> > a hot cutting when doing some routing in beech yesterday and am
> > wondering how to prevent something more serious in the future.
> >
> > I've got a dust extractor setup to prevent too much of a buildup
of
> > cuttings although I worry about what might happen if a hot chip
goes
> > down the extraction hose into the dust container.
> >
> > Is there anything I can do to help minimise the fire risk ?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Rab
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