Thread: Overhead TS Dust Extraction Hood

Forget about the dust collection; look at that saw! Holy crap! If I had that I'd just get my 3 butlers to inhale the dust away.

The wider hood isn't so much for dust extraction, but for safety. It only gets used when you have the blade tilted at an angle other than 90°. Even my cheap chinese panel saw came with two hoods. Fat and skinny. Pretty common on all decent panel saws.

Originally Posted by Kuffy

The wider hood isn't so much for dust extraction, but for safety. It only gets used when you have the blade tilted at an angle other than 90°. Even my cheap chinese panel saw came with two hoods. Fat and skinny. Pretty common on all decent panel saws.

On my slider the hood tilts with the blade. The reason it caught my eye is the problem of getting the fence close to the blade in a conventional saw and ripping narrow pieces while still collecting the dust. A conventional hood has to be lifted high enough to clear the fence and that can't be very effective but using a similar idea the fence side of the hood could be made detachable so if the fence was moved in a different side could be fitted that sat on top of the fence. One of our fellow forum members has been looking for a quick effective way around the problem and he thinks this idea will work for him.

Chris, thanks for posting that.

No one has yet mentioned the positioning of the rip fence. The fence stops where the blade starts cutting.
This allows for a narrow or wide dust hood AND importantly effectively eliminates the potential for kick-back because there is nothing to trap the waste piece.