I have dealt with the sub par dust collection opening of this jointer for over ten years now. Today I went out to the shop and said no longer will I deal with a clogged dust chute, and wood chips all over the shop. All I did to correct the problem was to box out the chute and make it 4” deep all the way to the bottom, then put the chut facing 90 degrees to the chute, which would solve the problem of chips collecting and clogging up the chute. Well, I just ran a ton of boards through the planer and it worked perfectly for the FIRST time in ten years. Why I never did this before, I will never know, but I do know this. Delta really dropped the ball on the dust collection on this one. 
-- Julian, Park Forest, IL
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gagewestern
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posted 214 days ago
well sometimes it takes some of us some time to think of the right fix brian
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bowyer
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posted 214 days ago
I’m glad to know I’m not the only one who needs to be pushed at times to come up with simple solutions.
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MVGraz
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posted 207 days ago
Julian – I am having a dust chute problem with my jointer I thought you may have an answer to. I have a similar size Jet jointer with the dust chute on the left side like yours. I recently picked it up used locally. The jointer works find, but all the chips shoot out the right side of the jointer, under the infeed bed. I assumed there was a clog somewhere so I shot air through the entire machine. I got to some chip build up I handn’t seen before, but it is still doing it. No chips go into the dust chute – all just shoot out the right side.
Thanks. Mike