Anyone used a Ikea BROR Trolly? / Filter

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So I have two IKEA BROR workbenches which I have been using for my Glowforge Pro since I got it - they have been amazing but I have moved apartments and no longer have a basement with a window, so I need a new solution.

Unfortunately, the apartment is to small to set up the Glowforge permenantly and the basement no longer has a window for me to vent.

I now have two options:

  1. Get an indoor filter for my cutting (its 90% proofgrade wood) and leave it in the basement and have a seperate work room but from what I read, that is going to get very expensive with constantly changing filters. I looked at the GF one but can’t get it shipped to Switzerland where I am. I looked at other Amazon ones but don’t know what I can trust. I am only making about $200 a month on Etsy - it is more of a hobby, so not sure I can justify it.
    • could something like THIS or THIS work?
  2. Replace the BROR with a BROR trolly and just wheel it upstairs into the living room once a week, vent out the window and then wheel it back down. It seems the dimensions of the feet are 86.3cm x 33cm and the BROR is 85x55, so it would just squeeze on. Has anyone used the BROR trolly? Any feedback?

Alternatively, has anyone had good success with indoor filters that won’t kill me long term.

Thank you!

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Not sure if this is what you are asking, but I have my GlowForge on a wheeled workbench and wheel it next to a window in another room when I want to use it. It is on the same floor so not sure how “wheel it upstairs and back down” would work. I would think that moving it up and down stairs would be tough on the machine.

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I do not believe it would last long moving it like that.

My machine ended up in a spot that the only practical way to vent was using over 30’ (10m) of duct, with a 6" inline fan that was virtually silent. Ran it that way for years, and just clipped on the duct when I needed to use it.

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It would be sitting on the BROR Trolly in the basement and I would just wheel it up - we have a lift in the building and there are no bumps along the way - so relatively easy, just annoying having to move the pipe etc every time

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OK, an elevator is different. Then that would seem reasonable. Mine lived on a very heavy wheeled piece, and although I didn’t need to move it often, it was no problem to now and then.

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