Miter saw dust collection

What about something like this with a dust hose hooked up to the collection bin?

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A guy down the road made a wooden hood with a funnel. It drop the dust into a box that he empties once a week. The hood goes from the back or the fence and tapers down towards the back where it falls down the shoot.

Steve, this link might help.
http://lumberjocks.com/topics/5101#reply-52284

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

Someone had a shop-made dust collector port on here a few months back, but I couldn’t find it last week when I was looking. I replaced the rubber “whatchamacallit” on my Dewalt Sliding Compund Miter this past weekend. When I hooked my dust collection system up to it, it pulled the rubber together and offered no dust collection. The bag worked better in that case. I used a piece of thin flat aluminum and used the rubber piece for a template but still had to do a lot of fitting afterward. When turning the saw all the way to the right or left the aluminum shroud would hit a piece of wood that was being cut. After it was complete, it works okay but still only catches 50% of the sawdust. At least it doesn’t close up with the dust collector on. I think that there is a reason that you see so many “hood type” dust collectors for a miter saw and very few after market dust collector ports.

-- NorthWoodsMan

Steve, Try this link.
I use a 2” hose with and adapter into the port on my Delta. I get about 50%, which is 50% less that I have to clean up.

http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?page=11312&filter=dust

-- Rick

My miter saw dust collection: I have tried the hose bit, even tried gluing the stupid thing to the saw, that didn’t work. What I do now works better. I put the saw on one of those contractor mobile bases for miter saws and when I am done, I roll it out of the way and use a broom. Done.

-- Berta in NC

Steelmum- LOL!!

-- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17) †

Steve,

is this something? http://lumberjocks.com/jocks/CraftsmanCollective/blog/5869#comment-225573
He look at the miter saw off Festool to make a good dust collection.

Succes Schummie.

-- Greetings from the Netherlands.

Schummie -
This was the post that I was looking for! I don’t ever recalling replying to the post. Now I know why I was having such a tough time – I have a much different saw and a much different dust collection “funnel” behind the blade. Mine is now very similar to this, with the exception of the aluminum shroud having to fit inside the assembly on a Dewalt SCM.

-- NorthWoodsMan

The main reason that I do not have a miter saw is the dust problem. I have vowed to make my new “Workshop in the Woods” as dust free as possible. I use a crosscut sled and have recently obtained an Incra 5000 sled if I need to cut accurate bevels. It may take a little longer to set-up on the table saw, but with my dust collector attached, there is practically no dust thrown into the air. If I have to make some rough sizing cuts I take the board outside and cut it on sawhorses with a hand held circular saw.

With an air cleaner on the ceiling I can varnish and paint on one side of the room and saw or plane on the other side while the finish is drying. There are also a lot of health benefits in avoiding breathing in the airborne dust.

-- "Heaven is North of the Bridge"

Thanks all, for your replies.

Schummie, That is a terrific link! I’m going to have to sit down and really think about what I can do with it.

Grumpy.. I think I’m going to have to go with some home-made shroud like yours, and try to collect as much as I can with Schummies post…

Here is a pic of my saw on my workbench in this other post....

-- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17) †

Good luck with it Steve.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python