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Shop Curtain Dividers

kf4zht

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My shop is below my house, roughly 2000 sq ft. The design is mostly open with a staircase dividing one third and 4x4 metal uprights spaced around 12-20' apart.

Kinda looks like this, but the walls are not in yet. Those will be for the workout room, wife's craft room and the gun/reloading room.

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The big end with the posts in it is a combo woodworking, welding and general work area. I really like the open aspect and have mounted most everything on wheels to take advantage of that. The biggest issue I have is dust/debris control. Most of the time it is fine, but then I start planeing wood or welding/grinding and dust gets everywhere. Metal dust is bad for wood, wood dust is bad for welding stuff and it all is bad for storage stuff.

I am considering some sort of curtains like a hospital has. They just need to be enough to stop most of the dust, none of that area is a clean room.

The cheap way would be with HF tarps. I have few hundred feet of 1/16 aircraft wire rope that would be plenty strong for holding it. I could either run it through the eyes or use some sort of hooks/curtain hangers to hold them.

I wanted to know if anyone knew of a better material. Ideally something like vinyl that I could get in a roll 8-9ft wide and long enough to do single large curtains.

Don't want to pour money into this but willing to spend more for something that will last and look nicer.
 
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woodworking AND welding?

Woodchips/dust gets everywhere, so do welding sparks. I would be very carefull, even with any type of curtains.
 
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I used thick clear vinyl, 10-12 mil., about 6 foot wide by 40 long. I have a 13 foot ceiling and built a 2x2 framed grid hung from the ceiling to attach the vinyl too. The lower 7 foot is cheaper 6 mil. vapor barrier stuff.
 
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kf4zht

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woodworking AND welding?

Woodchips/dust gets everywhere, so do welding sparks. I would be very carefull, even with any type of curtains.

I clean up the work areas well before switch, plus it's all TIG welding so there isn't really any spatter. Most of the dust issue is with it getting in the machines, toolboxes and all over tools.

The HF welding blankets look good and may be the winner. They are also slightly less likely to rip if I run the end of a piece of tube into them. I also hadn't though of caribeaners for slides, I can probably buy a box of those instead of hunting for shower curtain holder and it is still removable
 

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I would be scared to weld inside a home. Too much risk of a piece of slag getting stuck someplace and igniting a fire later.
 
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kf4zht

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I would be scared to weld inside a home. Too much risk of a piece of slag getting stuck someplace and igniting a fire later.

Concrete floor, concrete walls, metal table, metal toolbox. Not sure what can catch on fire

Keep in mind this is TIG. Not mig, stick or plasma. Spatter is almost nothing even if something is going wrong. You can TIG in a 3 piece suit and not worry unless you touch the metal itself

Plus you cant really tig outside, the wind will blow away your shield gas.
 
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