Phil wrote:
> The whole Unisaw vs. the world quesion has been asked an debated many
> times. New slant, dust collection is important to me. Looking for
> opinions on cabinet saws with a built in 4" port and how well they
> contain dust.
>
> Phil
I have a Jet cabinet saw with the built in 4" dust port attached to a 2
HP dust collector. The dust collector helps but the cabinet still will
partially fill up with saw dust. I vacuum it out occasionally. With the
standard blade insert some saw dust still escapes over the top of the
blade. A zero clearance insert further reduces the DC's effectiveness.
For maximum dust collection the 4" pickup below the table and a blade
guard with a built in dust pickup would be best.
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Jack Novak
Buffalo, NY - USA
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"Phil" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> The whole Unisaw vs. the world quesion has been asked an debated many
> times. New slant, dust collection is important to me. Looking for
> opinions on cabinet saws with a built in 4" port and how well they
> contain dust.
My cabinet saw (Jet clone) catches most of the dust via the 4" port down
near the bottom of the case.
Some dust settles just under the port at times (the port is slightly higher
than the bottom of the angled base leading down to it), but that is no real
problem. With cabinet saws, you will probably find that most of your dust
escapes from the top of the table, so a good overhead guard with a
collection port will help quite a lot. The bigger the port on the overhead
guard the better. Many come with 2" ports which is a little small if you are
going to hook it up to a dust collector rather than a vacuum.
Zero clearance insert will help too as previously suggested.
Good luck!
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I experience with a Jet cab saw is that *it depends*
dust collection perfoms well on a through-rip operation. If a cut is just
slicing a fractional kerf width, the majority of the dust is flung forward
above table.
As you may have guess I do not have any over-arm dust collection. IMHO, if
you want to to get serious about cabinet saw dust collection, you have to
suck from the top *and* the bottom.
-Steve
"Phil" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> The whole Unisaw vs. the world quesion has been asked an debated many
> times. New slant, dust collection is important to me. Looking for
> opinions on cabinet saws with a built in 4" port and how well they
> contain dust.
>
> Phil
>
If dust is that important, suggest you also look for a blade guard with
integral dust collection. Especially if you use a narrow slot insert, much of
the dust will be above the table.
GerryG
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 15:43:35 -0500, Phil <[email protected]> wrote:
>The whole Unisaw vs. the world quesion has been asked an debated many
>times. New slant, dust collection is important to me. Looking for
>opinions on cabinet saws with a built in 4" port and how well they
>contain dust.
>
>Phil
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:35:38 +1000, "Woodcrafter" <[email protected]>
vaguely proposed a theory
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My take on this is that most of ( the _debirs_ will get caught in the
underneath extractor. The dangerous, really fine dust will get out
into the shop air. That includes the stuff that blows straight through
most of the dust baags on the average extractor system!
>My cabinet saw (Jet clone) catches most of the dust via the 4" port down
>near the bottom of the case.
>Some dust settles just under the port at times (the port is slightly higher
>than the bottom of the angled base leading down to it), but that is no real
>problem. With cabinet saws, you will probably find that most of your dust
>escapes from the top of the table, so a good overhead guard with a
>collection port will help quite a lot. The bigger the port on the overhead
>guard the better. Many come with 2" ports which is a little small if you are
>going to hook it up to a dust collector rather than a vacuum.
>Zero clearance insert will help too as previously suggested.
People appeared to be saying it makes it _worse_. It stop suction from
around the blade, stops dust getting into the caniet, and allows air
to be sucked via other ports in the saw, thus bypassing ghe blade slot
where all the dust is.