Air dust removal?

What about those electrostatic dust gubbins? I've never tried one, but given how much dust CRT monitors used to attract, the principle seems sound.

Good point - through I'm hoping to collect it in a filter rather than have it stick to all the surfaces, which is the problem now. It's not it being in the air that's a problem - it's when it lands on all the shiny piano black surfaces that manufacturers love so much :-|

Ionizers do pull very fine particles out of the air, it's worth sitting them on a sheet of A4 paper to collect it, but never found they do much for actual "dust".

I don't think that works unless you exchange the air quite fast ie before the dust has settled! I used to work in a clean air room for a while and you still had to don special clothing and cover your hair etc, as dust was still able to settle from yourself. Where is this dust coming from? Are you near a main road or some other source of dust, like a quarry?

Brian

Anti static polish and indeed a little bit of humidity in the air stops static. This is probably most of your problem. Brian

The dust is going to fall eventually by gravity.

Dust is a nuisance, especially on the crevices of furniture and fittings.

Once they have a nice matt dust coating, problem solved (so long as you don't touch it!)

Indeed. Until someone goes around drawing nobs everywhere.

That usually being me...

Tee-hee.

Same problem here :-( We used to have a little gizmo that sucked in loads of dust near the telly. I'd clean the filter every couple of days and was surprised by the amount of dust. It packed in and I have yet to find anything similar.

As Quentin Crisp once remarked.

replying to Tim Watts, Iggy wrote: I wouldn't go for ANYTHING that does "ionic" nor has a specialty filter. In my opinion, a Box Fan (

Yebbut, I refurbished 2 chests of drawers and finished them with a satin varnish - that seems to attract dust to the /vertical/ surfaces far more than other finishes do. I was wondering about a polish that would stop this happening, as a flat, horizontal surface is easy to dust but areas with handles etc. aren't. I have to use a vac. for it as a duster - the easiest way - just moves the dust around but the furniture holds on to the dust.

Any desktop PC with front fans and filter will do that very well!

It is too early to say for sure but last week I was painting an internal door and had half a tack cloth left unused so used it as a duster on the black AV equipment. So far it looks as if less dust than would normally be present has appeared on the surfaces. No idea why, could equally be pollen has finally diminished from the surrounding fields but I'll continue the experiment for a while.

G.Harman

Yes. Yes they do...

Have you tried a microfibre duster?

um, had something that was supposed to be good but it seemed to be a one-shot wonder. Haven't done much dusting in the last 20 yearsm so there might have been improvements. I've a couple of Poundland microfibre cloths that were advertised as teatowel 0 they're about the right size for a duster. In a day or 20 I'll try one.

IME, they do collect a lot of dust. But somehow they don't seem to reduce the amount of dust that gets deposited on other surfaces in the room.