Thread: WC2000 war on dust

Harvs,

Well done. A great set up. I purchased the bag thingo years ago and got absolutley frustrated with it. It sits in a corner now but your set up has inspired me to do something like that.
Some people will be concerned that the saw doesn't have enough air circulating but you may leave one of the sides off. They say that about those gun-ho router tables that are all enclosed.
If you are really sold on the Triton 2000 you might like to look up my adaptation to take a 10in blade. I was able to purchase some 10in blades cheaply (Freud) and they seem to last forever.

Great work,

Graham

Nice solution. I have the dust bag and it basically works however, if I ever have to get to the saw or empty the bag etc., a cloud of dust usually greets me. Clearing dust with the DC is much better than collecting it with the bag. One other thing is that the bag has a section that allows for the air to flow through the motor. I once burnt a motor because the the section slipped off and I hadn't noticed until I could smell the burning and the saw started coughing and spluttering . I now have it firmly secured!

Great idea and work Harvs. I've got the dustbag - it does the job well but like metester said, changing the bag is always messy.

I like the idea with the rare earth magnets. Cooling would be my concern too - the Triton saw isn't cheap to replace. Perhaps a strategically placed piece of 100mm plumbers pipe from an opening i the timber to the air intake could work?

How do you find the suction at the top of the safety cover? Does going from the 4" pipe to the smaller vacuum hose drop any suction?

Cheers,
Nathan.

Thanks guys, a colleague at work mentioned the saw breathing as well. While I don't think it would be anywhere near as bad as the dust bag, as there is a constant flow of air through the box, though I do like the idea of a small piece of 100mm flex piping from the bottom board to the saw inlet. I use the saw in cross cut mode quite a lot, so I want to keep it in such a way that it doesn't take me any longer to change between modes. At the moment it's actually a lot better than normal because when I go to change modes I can quickly remove any remaining dust with the 4" suction pipe.

Suction at the top is actually quite reasonable. I was surprised, because I've still got the 4" line going to the bottom, and just a 1.5" tapped off. I've found that you don't need massive amounts of air being moved up the top, as 95% of the dust ends up under the table, and that top guard actually does a reasonable enough job of directing the top dust up into the hose.

Anyway, I'd definatly encourage people to at least consider putting their $100 towards a DC instead of the bag. This only took me 2hrs to knock up just out of a 900x900x7mm left over ply I had sitting around.

Good soluation on that.

Starting on mine today.

Thanks harvs.

CP

I better add a slight problem I've found with my setup. When the saw is lower, it gets to about 10mm blade height above table, and the bottom of the saw fouls on the bottom board. Not hard to fix, just need to put a "sump" type arrangement to lower the center of the bottom board.

Harvs,

Fantastic idea mate well done.

Hi,

Remembered a solution to this being posted some time back that I thought was neatly done.

Here is one of the solutions that has been posted in the past. .

- Allows the saw to breath fresh air from outside the cabinet.

- Reduces the size of the required area that the dust collector has to suck air from, improving collection capacity. With a similar setup to this, I found a 1HP dust collector provided enough suction to do away with the blade mounted dust hose.

-Allows the height winder full range of movement.

-Fully enclosed to reduce noise.

- A couple of handy storage compartments.

Here is the link, scroll down to post 15 and all the parts are laid out prior to assembly and there are captions and explanations.

https://www.woodworkforums.com/f15/he...a-300-a-70839/

Thought it might be worth referencing for those that haven't seen it before.

Regards

-Gavin