JDS dust collector

Getting all the dust from a tablesaw out of your face isn't easy. You
might think about a pickup mounted over the blade. There are a couple
of designs touched on in the "Workshop Book" by Taunton Press. Or,
DAGS. Tom

On Mon, 15 May 2006 19:19:21 GMT, Mortimer Schnerd, RN wrote:

> You should consider an overhead guard. When I was presented with this
> problem, it looked like the choices were either Penn State
> http://www.pennstateind.com/store/tsguard.html at $185 or Excalibur
> http://www.excalibur-tools.com/products/exbcs.htm?product=exbc at $359.
> Naturally, I chose the Penn State version.
>
> The one thing I decided was a potential shortcoming of both of these models
> was that if you attached the vertical support to the right wing of your saw
> as intended, it meant that you were severely limited in the width of what
> you could cut.

Check out the "Shark Guard", made by Lee Styron. http://www.leestyron.com

This is a guard that mounts using a splitter style mount, and has a DC
fitting. I haven't used this myself, so I don't know how effective it is or if
there are problems with it, but it does avoid the shortcoming you pointed out.

--
Art

You will need an overhead guard with DC and they are
fairly rare and expensive.

I have the Biesemeyer and I use a dedicated shop vac
for nohing but the top. It does a "fair" job but does
NOT get it all.

I have a LARGE 3hp DC and I tried the top with a 4"
connection but the shop vac works just
as well and it's not as big a hassle.

Of course the shop vac is just adding more to the noise
ratio.....

The table saw is just going to produce dust and chips and
you can only hope to get it down to a minimum. You will not
get rid of it all in my opinion.



[email protected] wrote:

> I just hooked a new JDS 1100 cfm DC with 1 micron filter to my PM
> 66 saw. I am currently using about 10 feet of 4 inch flex tubing for
> the connection. When ripping boards with a zero clearance plate in
> the saw I get a lot of coarse sawdust kicked back in my face. There is
> a standard PM66 blade guard in place too. Would it help to drill some
> 1 inch holes in the zero clearance insert? Any other suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Len
>

[email protected] wrote:
> I just hooked a new JDS 1100 cfm DC with 1 micron filter to my PM
> 66 saw. I am currently using about 10 feet of 4 inch flex tubing for
> the connection. When ripping boards with a zero clearance plate in
> the saw I get a lot of coarse sawdust kicked back in my face. There is
> a standard PM66 blade guard in place too. Would it help to drill some
> 1 inch holes in the zero clearance insert? Any other suggestions?


You should consider an overhead guard. When I was presented with this problem,
it looked like the choices were either Penn State
http://www.pennstateind.com/store/tsguard.html at $185 or Excalibur
http://www.excalibur-tools.com/products/exbcs.htm?product=exbc at $359.
Naturally, I chose the Penn State version.

The one thing I decided was a potential shortcoming of both of these models was
that if you attached the vertical support to the right wing of your saw as
intended, it meant that you were severely limited in the width of what you could
cut. The way around this was that I created out of oak and melamine laminated
plywood another outboard wing which I attached to the preexisting cast iron
wing. Then I attached the vertical support to the outside of the new add-on
wing, giving me plenty of room on the right side of the blade for cutting fairly
wide panels. See http://home.carolina.rr.com/jayhanig/hobbies.htm/table
saw1.jpg for a shot of the finished version.

I use a Micro Jig splitter to keep from killing myself when I rip wood... $15 at
Woodcraft or many other woodworking sources.



--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN

[email protected]