What do you guys do to keep eps dust out of your eyes?
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Maybe this is one of those rights of passage which separates the boys from the men. Kind of like when you were first learning to smoke
you idolized the guys that could just hang out with a cig in their mouth forever seemingly with no concern for the fact that it was BURNING THEIR EYES!
I have a dust extractor on the planer. I wear glasses as I shape but something about the foam just causes it to adhere to me. Any sanding, screening and it seems to migrate to every orifice of my body.
I suspect this is old news but I am really not enjoying the styes which I develop after working with the foam. So any thoughts?
Andy
p.s. I haven’t smoked in the past 15 of my 35 years so no need to fill me in on the hazards!
"Visorgogs'' are what I use. Clark started selling them about 20 years ago, if you google them you'll find many sources now. Wouldn't shape without them.
We'll get flamed for this, but I'm right with ya. PU dust is obnoxious once you've gone to the dark side. I have a much easier time keeping EPS dust out of my clothes, truck, ears, etc, etc....
Howzit nj, Foam dust particles can get in your tear ducts and clog them and the result is similar to a stye. A hot wash cloth applie to the area can bring the dust to a head and clean out the duct. Hope it works. Aloha,Kkua
Thanks for the responses guys. I never really get styes as bad as the link shows. That was just the first that came up with google.
Next you’ll be telling me if I keep my finger outta my butt I won’t get e coli anymore.
In all seriousness those goggles look slightly better that the ones that I use so I might give them a go.
The tenacious nature of eps I am sure has something to do with the static factor. It has probably been discussed but has anyone tried spraying themselves with antistatic spray before shaping.
You know: “always use protection”
I am probably over thinking this and need to suck it up but what the heck.
Yea… we’re all in the habit of getting dust in our eyes, then rubbing them with a dusty finger in a sad attempt to make things better. When will we learn?! I work in a public school, so I see a lot of styes, etc. They can get kinda gross…
I hear static guard can help, but I don’t use it. It all comes out in the wash/shower. Except out of your pockets… and cell phone… it seems to stay in there forever.
Reducing static charges will help a lot. I notice a big difference in summer, our humidity makes static nonexistent and the dust comes off and stays off. In the winter sometimes it tries to jump back on you as soon as you blow it off (yes, I use a compressor, another thing I couldn't work without).
GT, thanks for the pic of the Visorgogs. I use the green ones, but the blue ones look fancier.
Hi Mike, yes what's with the static? and I find the humidity has a lot to do with it to, ie, if its dry [winter], the foam just seems to move around your body, when blowing it off. When I 1st started in 70' I was shaping away and realised , because I was left handed, the foam was spraying all over me. I forgot about it as fast as I realized it and maybe 20 years later realised it again 1 day, and I am still left handed and still getting sprayed. Every time I've tried to use goggles , they fog up , so I have copped it for 40 years. I went to an optometrist for an eye check the other day, he said they were the best set of eyes he'd seen that day, in fact he said I had a unique setup, one eye a bit short sighted and the other one opposite. I asked him about the shaping and we both didnt know if shaping had caused that or I was okay at it [shaping] because of that. The dust only gets in my eyes sometimes [they seems to have their own defense] and I have only done a few eps's, cheers H.
H, good to see you back on here. We'd better be careful talking about static electricity - around here a physicist will chime in and ''help'' us by explaining (at a sub-atomic level) exactly how it makes the damn dust stick to us.
Yep , hearing you, I was waiting to get called an idiot for spraying foam on me, just walked straight through it. A surf will normally wash most dust off, even cobwebs.
are these the ones?