Dust collector and wood furnace

[LarryG]

In my shop i had a small dust collector that I moved around to different machines. It wasn't big enough for my new drum sander so I upgraded the dust collector to a 2300 CFM one. So I put the new dust collector just outside of my shop with steel pipelines to each machine. I works great but now it sucks smoke back out of the draft blower of my wood furnace when when I turn the dust collector on. I have to open a window to suck repayment air in. This thing you can say sucks!
:new_year:

[thecfarm]

Got a tight building you have!! 

[kantuckid]

Does insurance cover your un-occupied shop with wood heat?
 I'm with KY Farm Bureau and when I got ticked off at them last year and began shopping new real estate & vehicle insurance I ran into the factoid that they all canceled or didn't sell insurance on an un-occupied wood heated building. In fact my own insurer said if their inspection guy saw my flue on the wood shop during a periodic look/see they would cancel all my home/farm insurance. 
FWIW, I sold the Fisher stove I had in there and plan to demo the masonry flue when a metal roof goes on. 

Man!, that's some suction if it transfers from a machine connection to the room air & furnace? Makes it sound like the machine connections are not well sealed? 

[Don P]

Nah, the machine intakes its suction air from the room. I forgot to leave a door cracked at a furniture component plant as we came in and fired up our shift one night, couldn't open any doors till we killed the blower. I guess we were about to crinkle a big tin can  :D.

[farmfromkansas]

I built a small steel building close to my shop and put a wood furnace in it, then ran ductwork between the 2 buildings.  Had to enclose the blower in ductwork before the system would work right, and also had to install a outside vent in the wall of the furnace building to keep smoke from being sucked from the firebox and then blown into the shop. 

[stavebuyer]

Does insurance cover your un-occupied shop with wood heat?
I'm with KY Farm Bureau and when I got ticked off at them last year and began shopping new real estate & vehicle insurance I ran into the factoid that they all canceled or didn't sell insurance on an un-occupied wood heated building. In fact my own insurer said if their inspection guy saw my flue on the wood shop during a periodic look/see they would cancel all my home/farm insurance.
FWIW, I sold the Fisher stove I had in there and plan to demo the masonry flue when a metal roof goes on.

Man!, that's some suction if it transfers from a machine connection to the room air & furnace? Makes it sound like the machine connections are not well sealed?

I think a man would be better off to cancel the insurance. Its way past that they get put back in their place

[LarryG]

I built a small steel building close to my shop and put a wood furnace in it, then ran ductwork between the 2 buildings.  Had to enclose the blower in ductwork before the system would work right, and also had to install a outside vent in the wall of the furnace building to keep smoke from being sucked from the firebox and then blown into the shop.

I was thinking the same thing. Enclosing the system and put a return air back into the shop. The shops that I have worked out of had a big make up air system.