Thread: Dust from template routing with bush

How large is the piece of timber.

A photo of your setup and the wood you are routing would be useful.

Probably beyond your available tooling but the now hard to get here Triton routers and guide bushings use bushings in a punched metal mount that allows a vacuum to draw at least some of the chips through the base and away.

If you are just using a trimmer, you probably need to take a few shallower cuts to get 20-30mm deep in which case you could lift the router between cuts and vac the cut, but probably won't be quick and easy.

Originally Posted by malb

Probably beyond your available tooling but the now hard to get here Triton routers and guide bushings use bushings in a punched metal mount that allows a vacuum to draw at least some of the chips through the base and away.

If you are just using a trimmer, you probably need to take a few shallower cuts to get 20-30mm deep in which case you could lift the router between cuts and vac the cut, but probably won't be quick and easy.

Yeah that's pretty much what I was doing, but the hole fills up quickly with shavings. I've since seen that the Festool plunge routers have what sound like similar gaps in the mounting plate. My Makita trimmer doesn't have that - it's just solid, and there's not really much room there anyway.

Maybe I'll just live with it and open up the garage doors when template routing!! Maybe oneday I'll get the Festool. I suppose it's not that much dust really and I'm not doing it every day.


Thanks for the replies!

If you’re using a trimmer to cut material that’s 20 to 30 mm thick, and you’re doing it in one pass, then yes you are trying to remove too much material at once. Buy a bigger router, the festool 1400 has built in dust extraction, it’s brilliant.

would this be of any use.... maybe to big for your trimmer but its what i have on my big riuter,

Sydney Tools

https://www.timbecon.com.au/universa...ee-router-hood

Yes, I think the conclusion is that it's time for bigger router!