dust extracting blade guard for t/s

**Arron** · 14th December 2006, 06:53 AM

Hi. I am wanting to buy one of those suspended-from-above blade guards for my tablesaw. The important thing is that it needs a dust extraction port built in. I have seen several good designs to make, but dont have that sort of time available. The saw is a fairly low-end Hare and Forbes table saw.

The problem that I have is that my shed is always dusty, and most of it comes from the ts, which has dust extraction from below, which only gets about 30% of the dust.

I have seen the Carbatech and H&F versions, but arent particularly happy with either. The SUVA version, at Carbatec, looks particularly good but the problem is it needs a lot of space and I dont have the room for it. Anyone know where else I can get one.

thanks
Arron

**Wongo** · 14th December 2006, 07:59 AM

Arron,

I ripped this one up in an hour

**Wongo** · 14th December 2006, 08:00 AM

Well, a bit more than an hour.

**BobL** · 14th December 2006, 10:20 AM

Or you can "adapt a commerically available dust picker" such as shown here.

Since that post I have added an ally handle to the front of the picker head and counterweight consisting of a 2L soft drink container full of water. The dustpicker head is connected to the counterweight by a wire running on rollers up to and across the ceiling and over to the wall of the shed. The picker head can be placed at virtually any height and also swung out over my workbench and be used for other purposes.

**LuckyDuck** · 14th December 2006, 11:49 AM

The other issue to perhaps consider is upgrading your dust extraction from below the table. Your stated estimate of 30% collection is pretty poor and I wonder how effective an above table collection system is going to be, regardless of how you go about it?

What kind of extraction system do you have connected to the TS, and is it possible to upgrade the cowling around the blade to make your currect extraction system more efficient?

I have a large extraction system connected to my TS and without any extraction above the table it probably gets 80% of the generated dust. The other 20% is the heavier stuff that sprays out over the top of the table. I intend to install a blade guard and extraction above table but haven't gotten around to it yet...

The key thing is to get rid of that "smallest dust" that Pentz talks about. And a powerful, efficient collection system below the table should be able to accommodate you.

**soundman** · 14th December 2006, 07:07 PM

do you have the american style splitter with the guard that pivots off that?

If so.... bore a 32mm hole as close to the pivot point as you can....it should be a close thing so get it realy centre...... glue in a short (150mm) section of 32mm electrical conduit and hook up a shop vac with a 20l drum seperator and you are away.

I had this arrangement on my previous saw bench and it was quite effective because the guard rides the work and keeps the gap close.

Yeh get the below table extraction up to speed too..... get rid of as much flexible as you can.

I have an overhead guard with a 100mmpipe split to two 75mm flexes and it still isnt as good as the old bench with thw vac.

cheers

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