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RE: Speaking of exhausts...

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Subject: RE: Speaking of exhausts...
From: "Randall Young" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 22:12:17 -0700
> >The running engine is also sucking oxygen out of the shop, so
> > if you have a perfectly sealed shop you could eventually make yourself
> > lightheaded.
>
> Or dead.

If the shop were somehow sealed so well that the engine could significantly
reduce the air pressure inside, the walls would implode !

For example, 1 psi (roughly the pressure drop from climbing 2000 ft in
altitude, usually not enough to even make one lightheaded) across an 8x10
wall (really small shop here), would exert over 5 tons of force !

As long as you have a CO monitor, and don't sleep in the area, plumbing the
exhaust to the outside should be good enough.  I like the sealed box with a
vent idea, but cooling may be a problem.

Randall

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