Shop Cleanup, Catch-Up, and Redo #5: Dust Collection for Miter Saw Part I
After reviewing many a magazine and multiple solutions for dust collection with this beasty, I decided to roll my own based off of BlankMan's / Degoose's designs. the designs both include plenum chambers to spread the suction across a small horizontal opening. Both solutions have the mainline for the DC above the bench, mine of course is below. With this all in mind and since I had pulled the benches off the shop wall, what I decided to do was to build a separate plenum box and integrate it in to the top of the bench itself, and then size the opening in the top to the dimensions needed for the current miter saw. I cut the center section out of the bench where the saw lives and left a 6...














