Thread: buffing machine with less dirt, possible ?

Hi folks,

i'm looking for advices to use buffing machine at home with less dust and dirts. today i made a test, about 30 minutes of work but just after i spent 3 hours to clean home. there was dust and paste dirts everywhere (even after cleaned, i continue to find some dust under table, back of the couch ... ). i took a carton box to cover it for next time, but i will appreciate if you have any advice (even pictures) to make it better ..

thanks guys

DONT BUFF IN YOUR HOME, its meant for basements , garages or out doors. now if you must, set up a shop vac system and build plastic sheet walls around your buffer, maybe even ventilation to the outdoors, but buffing is a shop type of work, not really meant for your place of living Tc

That is they only real way of doing it, with a vacuum system. I have 4" lines coming through my bench and exhausting directly outside. I use my wood waste in the garden so I don't want my buffer waste mixed into it so it is on a separate system. I got some small fenders for 12" tires from Princess Auto and set them as a guard/ air and dust deflector. The other thing is that if you are not using air and dust controls you really need to always wear a quality respirator. Doing both never hurts either but at a minimum you should employ at least one system of air quality control. If you cannot use a vacuum system for air control then you are stuck with controlling your dust by keeping it in areas you don't mind being full of dust, fluff, and grit.

i don"t have choice. i live in a appartement and don't have my own basement. so i must find a solution to make it as clear as possible.

I would suggest that you work by hand with wet dry abrasives and a good polish like Maas or a headlight polish. I did a few restores that way and the time difference was not that great. O have toys now but am down sizing so will be back to that soon.
~Richard

if you can find a fan from a furnace or something similar it might work to make a sort of hood with a hose to vent out a window. i made something like that for my son to roast coffee with his hot air popper inside the dorm without setting off the smoke detector. i'll see if he can send me a picture so you can see what i mean.

If you must ignore all the safety advice

Build a "Buffing Box" / Shroud

An enclosure that holds the buffer with just enough room for the razor and you hands to fit in the front.

Your body will block most of the splash coming out the front, then you only have a small area to vacuum up


This should give you some ideas

Originally Posted by gssixgun

If you must ignore all the safety advice

Build a "Buffing Box" / Shroud

An enclosure that holds the buffer with just enough room for the razor and you hands to fit in the front.

Your body will block most of the splash coming out the front, then you only have a small area to vacuum up


This should give you some ideas

that seems better and easy to make.

here's the roasting set up. i made the piece to fit under the sliding window of a double hung window. you would have to mount the fan in line to suck the air out, hope this give you some ideas.

You can get very good filters for shop vacs. If you are restricted to an apartment I think a high volume shop vac with a HEPA filter and a simple hood set up should get 80% od the nasty stuff collected for you. I doubt you will get enough volume of air flow to be able to get the really small dust. It comes off the wheel with enough velocity that it is quite difficult to capture. The setup in the picture Glen posted is not that far from my setup, but mine looks a little more farmerish and not that many buffers. When controlling dust, air flow volume is everything. So when looking at shop vacs look at the one with larger diameter hoses and high airflow volumes.