AIT / WECO Air Max System...

[NTEyeDoc]

My doctor wants one. Probably because today I cut about 3 separate 1.74's back to back, and his office cubby is about 15 feet from the lab cubby, separated only by - you guessed it - office cubby partitions. Questions - it is a brand new product unveiling in Las Vegas this week, so I doubt anyone has it yet, but can I expect this to completely eliminate HIX odors? Does anyone use an air purification system that can give me feedback? And, (not sure if this falls under the $$$ taboo) how much can we expect to pay for a system such as this?

Thanks in advance.

[braheem24]

Using lots of water with sharp and agressive roughing wheels reduces smell tremendously.

[Look To The Stars]

I have a regular wet/dry shopvac with an exhaust port hooked up to our edger. I used a really long piece of vacum hose from an old central vac, and hooked the exhaust of the shopvac up to an existing heat exchanger exhaust.
Sure, it doesn't come on automatically with the edger, and our parking lot sometimes smells of high index... but total cost was under $50

[DragonLensmanWV]

I use a standard Jet chip collector that I run through the standard shop-vac tank (use the Jet to power the suction and it has outlasted about a dozen Shop_Vacs) with the filter bags in them,and recently added one of these http://www.pureairsystems.com/Pure-A...-350_da6f.html , replacing the upper cloth bag to help filter the nasty smell from HDX. It doesn't completely stop the smell, but it lessens it by 90% or so.


Also have blocked the lower air output so it all goes through the filter.

[CCGREEN]

Along with all the other great suggestions. I would suggest a regular Air Purifier like what we bought at Target and use at the house. I have difficulty with allergys and we have two weiner dogs and old carpet in the house, we run it 24/7. It is worth it weight in gold in cleaning the air and taking out odors. If nothing else just get a small one to keep running in the exam room.
The real trick to geting the most benifit from a purifier like that is to change BOTH hippa filter and charcoal filter
at the SAME TIME. Dont try to be cheap about it and change one without changing the other. I will work only half a good.

[NTEyeDoc]

Thanks all for the replies - Roughing wheel is a possibility I hadn't considered, even though it seems to have decent wear left. The shop vac seems like a cost effective experiment that would avoid paying over a grand for a system that may (or may not) work the way we want. Noisy, but really only for the times that we'll be cutting HIX.

Thanks again peoples )

[Invisible]

Just got back from VEW and had a Mr Blue demo. This edger uses a "milling" cycle that eliminated all the hi index odor! Was really impressed

[rickyforever]

Using lots of water with sharp and agressive roughing wheels reduces smell tremendously.

that may be a good way to reduce smell

[Invisible]

If you don't mind the good sharp aggressive wheel spinning your lens off axis