I’ll spray water on everything while cutting and keeps dust down but electrocution risk goes up.
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from a water bottle?
https://forum.esk8.news/t/water-bottle-kinetic-energy-discussion/10907/7?u=rosco
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That’s my plan exactly.
if I could understand it.
That dude is from another planet 
You can remove most of the excess with tin snips (scissors for metal), so as to minimize what is left to grind/sand down. Then, it’s super important to wear good respirator and glasses, and to try to suck the dust as you go. Even a house vacuum cleaner does a decent job at it, just keep your respirator and overhauls while changing the bags and filters.
When I built my first kiteboard in 2000, I went to my local windsurf shop, bought the biggest cheapest old school slalom fin I could get, and carved 4 half-moon fins out of that chunk of G10. Using jigsaw, angle grinder and sander… All of this in a 9m² basement. In hindsight, that was totally insane, I hope to think I’m a bit wiser now… Lots of dust, itchy dust getting everywhere, specially in between your fingers, itching for weeks… I was stripping to my boardshorts afterwards and getting hosed down before finishing the decontamination in the shower.
As your skills improve, you also have less excess to sand down. Some resin infusion / prepreg techniques can lead to almost zero sanding required.
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So much this.
Sanding and finishing the buck well before you make a mould is way easier and preferable to sanding a glass of carbon part.
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OK so been a little while.
I decided to make a box, table thing in a shed. Then I have a place to make a mess that is easy to clean up. This is going to double as a resin printer station, epoxy resin + photopolymer resin made sense to me.
at first I made it in the corner to save on wood. Then I realised this made it so a lot of work area was lost.
take down attempt uno plastic sheet walls.
^notice walls barely intact.
I moved the table, a pain because of how jank it is. Just enough room to walk behind that side where I will tuck the 3d printers. Some kind of dust free zone there is a goal.
With the issues with the last plastic sheet walls to guide me I need to do it again but better and a lot more of it. I will also be using insulation foam board to make a box that the printer and a small heater will be in, ya know a fire alarm might be a solid idea now that I think about that.
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