Jeff Garrett
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If you were to design/build a brand new casting bench/station (inside a heated garage in a very cold climate); what height off the floor, dimensions, ergonomics, construction material, misc. design considerations, smoke/fumes exhaust, fire safety, etc. tips would you employ/recommend based on your personal experience to date?
My bench is high enough that I can sit in front on a bar stool and be comfortable, not reaching up to the bench. Not many people spoke to the smoke/exhaust so here's what I did. We were moving and needed to replace the range hood just because it looked terrible so this became the casting hood in the garage at the new location. There was a electrical circuit close by that also powers the pot, PID, etc., so I ran some flex conduit from there up to the range hood to bring power to it then picked up a typical hard dryer vent hose setup with the same venting used on the outside of the house and modified a reducer (like is used for floor heat registers) bought at home depot to tie the round exhaust pipe to the rectangular exhaust port on the range hood. I then sealed the joints with aluminum ducting tape. Once I close the doors to the garage so there are no cross drafts, everything exits through the hood nicely.
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