Dustless coffee...

[Iceclimber]

Maybe my favorite thing since converting to festool.

No more drinking my work in the form of a thick dust layer over the top of my coffee...

 

[wow]

I expected to see a 'Festool' branded covered cup of some kind? It took me a minute to get that you were commenting about the dust collection on the sanders...

...then I smiled!

 

[Iceclimber]

I was a painting contractor in another life.

I started in the trades in the mid 90's while still in high school long before i gave a second thought to my health. The almighty dollar always seemed to rule the roost.

Now i do care but still things are unavoidable at times. A lid on my coffee just destroys the delicious beans i pay dearly for.

Is suppose cancer and COPD are soon on their way. They seem to have gotten the rest of my family..

Really though I'm a health nut.  Full vegan for years. Try not to eat anything out of a bag, refuse to tAke even aspirin. I figure if saw dust is the worst thing i expose myself to im doing way better than i used to.

I can remember one of the first painters i ever worked for. He died of a heart attack a number of years ago now. He used to tell me when i would complain about all the chemicals of how he used to mix five gallon buckets with his bare hands when he was younger as all the lead would settle to bottom. Im not sure if it was all the lead or LSD but the man suffered so e kind of toxic poisoning. Nicest guy i ever met though.....

Cringing at open liquids in the shop.

 

[Sparktrician]

I was a painting contractor in another life.

I started in the trades in the mid 90's while still in high school long before i gave a second thought to my health. The almighty dollar always seemed to rule the roost.

Now i do care but still things are unavoidable at times. A lid on my coffee just destroys the delicious beans i pay dearly for.

Is suppose cancer and COPD are soon on their way. They seem to have gotten the rest of my family..

Really though I'm a health nut.  Full vegan for years. Try not to eat anything out of a bag, refuse to tAke even aspirin. I figure if saw dust is the worst thing i expose myself to im doing way better than i used to.

I can remember one of the first painters i ever worked for. He died of a heart attack a number of years ago now. He used to tell me when i would complain about all the chemicals of how he used to mix five gallon buckets with his bare hands when he was younger as all the lead would settle to bottom. Im not sure if it was all the lead or LSD but the man suffered so e kind of toxic poisoning. Nicest guy i ever met though.....

Cringing at open liquids in the shop.

If you're vegan, you should appreciate fiber in your diet... 

[poke]  [big grin]  [poke]

 

[wow]

I was a painting contractor in another life.

I started in the trades in the mid 90's while still in high school long before i gave a second thought to my health. The almighty dollar always seemed to rule the roost.

Now i do care but still things are unavoidable at times. A lid on my coffee just destroys the delicious beans i pay dearly for.

Is suppose cancer and COPD are soon on their way. They seem to have gotten the rest of my family..

Really though I'm a health nut.  Full vegan for years. Try not to eat anything out of a bag, refuse to tAke even aspirin. I figure if saw dust is the worst thing i expose myself to im doing way better than i used to.

I can remember one of the first painters i ever worked for. He died of a heart attack a number of years ago now. He used to tell me when i would complain about all the chemicals of how he used to mix five gallon buckets with his bare hands when he was younger as all the lead would settle to bottom. Im not sure if it was all the lead or LSD but the man suffered so e kind of toxic poisoning. Nicest guy i ever met though.....

Cringing at open liquids in the shop.

If you're vegan, you should appreciate fiber in your diet... 

[poke]  [big grin]  [poke]

My wife keeps trying to get me to eat her 12-grain bread, but I call it 'leaves and twigs'...

 

[Iceclimber]

This s about dust and lead people...

 

[Handyman Mike]

...

Now i do care but still things are unavoidable at times. A lid on my coffee just destroys the delicious beans i pay dearly for.

...

I don't want to make you mad or nuthin', but ya know, you can take the lid off when you drink it and then put it back on. [big grin]

 

[mike_aa]

This s about dust and lead people...

And about wood having coffee spilled on it.

Is that a new type of finishing technique??  [big grin]

Mike A.

 

[Handyman Mike]

Actually, I have used coffee, brewed verrrry strong, as a stain. But that was on purpose.

 

[#Tee]

I too just got thru a sanding session with an open cup of iced coffee. ive gone lid less since festool

 

[Sparktrician]

I too just got thru a sanding session with an open cup of iced coffee. ive gone lid less since festool

You can't go topless here!!!  [scared]  This is a family forum!!! 

[big grin]

 

[Iceclimber]

Now this is my kind of humor.

I don't bother as i already got handed out to for using bad naughty words. Im not gonna rock the boat.

It took me. Minute but i did figure out the concern was with a spill. Being i am working mostly with birdseye spilt coffee is not of much concern?

If I'm home I'm drinking out of a regular mug. Sure mugs with covers can be removed but they still make the coffee taste like crap imop.

I did veneer up some drawer slide type deals this afternoon with some very blond maple. I guess a spill today could had been a little problem.

I too just got thru a sanding session with an open cup of iced coffee. ive gone lid less since festool

You can't go topless here!!!  [scared]  This is a family forum!!! 

[big grin]

 

[WastedP]

In my younger days, I also paid little attention to my dust consumption.  And I hate drinking from sippy cups, they are for infants.  When I started working with solid surface though, I had to find a coffee cup with a lid, Festool or not.  I did cabinets and countertops for a coffee roaster that opened up a coffee shop, and they were offering these for sale:
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It holds over twenty ounces and fit underneath the spout of the espresso machine Bosch loaned me for the showroom I was working in at the time.  I usually don't use the lid unless it's necessary, because it's true, capping a cup of hot coffee will overcook it and make it taste like charred bark.

I don't know what lead has to do with any of it, but I did grow up on a Superfund site around a lead smelter.

 

[WarnerConstCo.]

Maybe the dust would cancel out the horrible taste of coffee.

 

[Iceclimber]

I had a nice ceramic lined stainless mug. I got it at Pete's Coffee. It cost a fortune "or a Festool" and i lost the lid within the first week. At the time i wanted it for my 2-3 day a week 4 am drive north to ice climb as i had developed a habit of spilling coffee all over my lap the whole ride.

I gave up and just decided that the permanent fresh coffee stains that adorn my pants at almost any given time compliment the homeless look my giant beard portrays.

 

In my younger days, I also paid little attention to my dust consumption.  And I hate drinking from sippy cups, they are for infants.  When I started working with solid surface though, I had to find a coffee cup with a lid, Festool or not.  I did cabinets and countertops for a coffee roaster that opened up a coffee shop, and they were offering these for sale:
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It holds over twenty ounces and fit underneath the spout of the espresso machine Bosch loaned me for the showroom I was working in at the time.  I usually don't use the lid unless it's necessary, because it's true, capping a cup of hot coffee will overcook it and make it taste like charred bark.

I don't know what lead has to do with any of it, but I did grow up on a Superfund site around a lead smelter.

 

[Scott B.]

I was a painting contractor in another life.

;D

I had a feeling...

I am a paint contractor, so I definitely see the exposure concerns. So many things that are bad for respiratory and nervous systems when dealing with dust and chemicals. Every little bit counts!

Granat soft roll makes a good little drink coaster/cover too...

 

[Tinker]

Maybe my favorite thing since converting to festool.

No more drinking my work in the form of a thick dust layer over the top of my coffee...

But the dust cover does hold the heat in.  [scratch chin]
Tinker

 

[festooltim]

When I was young and would have  an adult beverage on the weekend it was sometimes with a friend of mine who was a big guy 300+ lbs.  He never used a can cozzie people would ask him does your drink get warm and as he would almost enhail the can he would say never had that problem.

 

[Iceclimber]

My best interweb Sherlock  Scooby sense also picked up on you being a painting contractor. I still do some finish work but i try really really hard not to. Mostly i just finish my own work as i don't know anyone else that will do it to my standards. Well i do know one guy but he is so busy i would not bother him.

I did just get a call to respray some brand new cabinets that got painted the wrong color but the issue went unnoticed till after installation. I will probably take this project as it should be mostly a tape job, light scuff and a couple quick coats. I will only take the project in hopes of getting carpentry work out of the relationship long term. As i said as talented a finisher i know i am its just not worth it to me. I can see the chemical exposure either killing me or creating terrible health issues later in life.

Im pretty sure paint and chemicals have done permanent damage at this point. I clean my house thoroughly every other week. I use eco cleaners in everything but the bathroom. Being my bathroom is all carrera marble and subway tile i use nasty chemicals to clean it. Just 30 minutes of exposure to that stuff and i feel really sick till the next day. Flue like achy coupled with nausea and a general weakness.  The same happens when i use paint products and or sand them 90% of the time.  I think the sensitivity to chemical exposure are cumulative for sure!

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I was a painting contractor in another life.

;D

I had a feeling...

I am a paint contractor, so I definitely see the exposure concerns. So many things that are bad for respiratory and nervous systems when dealing with dust and chemicals. Every little bit counts!

Granat soft roll makes a good little drink coaster/cover too...