QUOTE (Brian Considine @ 24 Aug 2008, 10:48)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Last Friday I had to cut some holes in a shop unit made from MDF - I could not really get the correct angle on the drill & ended up & "burned" the MDF with the resultant aweful smell & just a whiff of smoke.
The next day I had really bad flu symtoms (the "man-flu"), but I managed to shake it off using the usual Lemsip in about a day.
Thinking back, I have had this before - anyone else suffered, or is it just an allergy I have ?
(& yes, I was wearing a mask).
If you know how to grind drills, treat MDF the same as you would aluminium, but without coolant.
Paul M.