'89 Arriva 2050 Restoration

[todhunter]

Spend the money on a dust deputy, a long shop vac hose (mie is 13ft, I think), and a remote control outlet. The long hose allows your vacuum to be out of the boat, giving you space to work. The remote outlet lets you control the vacuum that is now out of your reach, and the dust deputy means you'll almost never clog another shop vacuum filter.

Grinder with a flap disc is the way. Hold it in one hand, vacuum hose in the other, or get creative with your legs like Scott said. Build an air tight tent over the boat with painters plastic and painters tape. Duct in fresh air with a fan on low through the keyhole.

 

[Scott Danforth]

I forgot to mention. I use a 6.5hp shop vac with 3 hoses coupled together. the shop vac sits outside the boat.

 

[Crazy_Pilot]

Spend the money on a dust deputy, a long shop vac hose (mie is 13ft, I think), and a remote control outlet. The long hose allows your vacuum to be out of the boat, giving you space to work. The remote outlet lets you control the vacuum that is now out of your reach, and the dust deputy means you'll almost never clog another shop vacuum filter.

Grinder with a flap disc is the way. Hold it in one hand, vacuum hose in the other, or get creative with your legs like Scott said. Build an air tight tent over the boat with painters plastic and painters tape. Duct in fresh air with a fan on low through the keyhole.

Already on the way. My woodworking neighbour lent me his separator, I have a 20 ft hose arriving today and put a switched extension cord together over the weekend. So far I've been doing the boot on the hose dance and shooting the dust into and while that gets 90% there's still the really light stuff that floats out of suction range.

The boat is already in one of those garage in a box tents and I'm thinking of putting a pair of box fans with air filters at one end to draw the inevitable floating dust and capture it.