Howdy all,
I am in the process of setting up a new shop and after reading about all the bad things about shop dust and your health I decided I better get a good dust collector. Every dust collector I see has a filter of some sort that filters all the harmful (and sometimes very poorly) dust while a bin collects the larger wood chips. Rather than worrying if harmful dust is being blown back in my workshop and if the filter is actually doing its job, why not just run the exhaust outside. If you have an open window or some other way fresh air can get into your shop, this shouldn't be a problem. Does anyone have a similar setup with their dust collector? Every setup I've seen online seems to use the filter approach and I would image it would be easier than to monkey with cleaning the fitler as well. Any thoughts?
-JC