Thread: SCMS Enclosure

So I finally got around to building an enclosure for my SCMS. It's surprising how large the enclosure needs to be to accommodate every combination of mitre and bevel.

Below is the enclosure as it stands. I still need to put a roof on it.
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And a closer picture of the vent at the back.
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And a look underneath.
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It's not perfect. I still end up with a bit of sawdust on the table. And I don't have the means to measure how much fine dust still ends up in the air. But it's a heck of a lot better than my old system, which was to let the dust spray wherever it wanted and then run the externally vented DC for a while. I still run the DC for a little while after making a cut anyway.

There's a 6 inch hole just behind the saw which connects to a 6 inch duct beneath the table which runs off to the left along the floor and out to the dusty. I've also hooked up a 4 inch line which gets reduced to 2.5 inch and connected to the back of the saw. I'm not sure how much this really does, but I was surprised (before making the enclosure) at how much dust goes out through this. I've had the flexy attached to the saw for a while and even with no DC hooked up the saw still pushes quite a lot of dust through the flexy. So I thought I may as well keep it connected. I doubt that the additional 2.5 inch line is stealing much suck from the 6 inch.

A simple 6 inch hole at the back is not ideal. I'd prefer to have some sort of very large bell mouth hood. But until BobL starts shipping his BMHs to NZ I'll just have to wait. And in any case I don't have much space below to work with.

Interested to get your comments/feedback.