This all started when the company I work for threw away 3 nice tabletops from some electronic benches. They were perfectly flat, 1 1/4" thick and laminated with a round bull-nose on the front edge. One of them made a real nice workstation for the miter saw. I'll blog about that after I finish the wings and drawers. In the meantime…
Nothing makes sawdust like the miter saw. OK, maybe the table saw or the router table, but I already have dust collection for those. So I decided some dust collection was in order for the miter saw, too. I started with a dust collection funnel:
Framed it into a box and cut a coupla access holes…
Epoxied a blast gate and extension tube into the finished funnel:
And mounted it to the wall between two studs where the miter saw table sits:
Here's the connection beneath the table to the vacuum:
And here is the connection to the top of the saw (instead of the stupid little bag they give you for dust collection):
I designed my own vacuum switch (check the handle!) to turn on the vac when the saw runs:
And attached a "buckethead" vacuum. The vacuum and bucket costs ~$20. I defy you to find cheaper dust collection than that!
All in all, it works pretty well. I would have to say that it collects about 65% of the saw dust generated. I may have to upgrade to a larger vacuum or surround the miter saw to do any better.
Nothing makes sawdust like the miter saw. OK, maybe the table saw or the router table, but I already have dust collection for those. So I decided some dust collection was in order for the miter saw, too. I started with a dust collection funnel:
Framed it into a box and cut a coupla access holes…
Epoxied a blast gate and extension tube into the finished funnel:
And mounted it to the wall between two studs where the miter saw table sits:
Here's the connection beneath the table to the vacuum:
And here is the connection to the top of the saw (instead of the stupid little bag they give you for dust collection):
I designed my own vacuum switch (check the handle!) to turn on the vac when the saw runs:
And attached a "buckethead" vacuum. The vacuum and bucket costs ~$20. I defy you to find cheaper dust collection than that!
All in all, it works pretty well. I would have to say that it collects about 65% of the saw dust generated. I may have to upgrade to a larger vacuum or surround the miter saw to do any better.