Mark E Smith
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I broke the code, I did it, I am getting 98% dust control on a 10 inch Dewalt compound sliding miter saw....only for straight 90 cuts and bevels, about 75% on miters, but hey better then any other solutions I have seen. Here is what I did, seems counter initiative, but it WORKS. Built a small box, tried the big boxes, covering the entire saw, with the plastic strips,...yada yada doesn't work, I went small, box is no higher then the fence with an OPEN top, yes I said open top, makes it like a down draft table, then I ran my 4 inch DC hose directly to the 1 1/2 inch port on the saw with a 4 to 2 1/2 inch reducer, yes I know 2 1/2 inch is not a 1 1/2 inch, but here is where the counter intuitive part comes in, the space around the port adds air draw and actually improves the air flow, used a 1 1/2 inch by 6 inch piece of pvc on the saws dust port to help keep the DC hose and adapter on, and the last part on the saws duct collector boot I taped the bottom part closed to deflect debrie into the box. Here are some pics. Using a HF dust collector, I split the feed into the lower dust port and the upper saw port with two blast gates so if I need to use the miter part I just remove the box and feed to the upper port only. I also made the box to lock down with a cam lock, quick lock and unlock. I might also add as a side note I am using the long ranger blast gate control, very good system open a blast gate dust collector comes on, close the gate DC off. So what do you guys think of my solution
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