Thread: photos of table saw guard

Something like this would be pretty easy to make

BobL takes a look at that and he will have a hissy fit, the front angle is going the wrong way and the air hole should be up the front as well, yikes I might have learnt something.

I am sure someone had one where the sides were separate and could move depending on timber thickness.
But yes the mounting looks simple enough, even make it so the whole horizontal arm could swing out of the way IF needed.

OK need to push this again, I want...NEED to build a blade guard dust extractor for my cabinet saw.
I have PMd a couple of regulars and got some good ideas, Utube shows people with no idea on what dust can do to them.

I have a large hole cut in one side of cabinet with heavy wire mesh so little fingers can get inside, opposite that I have 150mm bell mouth sucking as if life depended on it, but there is still dust on the table top. not much but its there to see.
I have seen great designs, dont get me wrong, I think my big question now is how can I get a blade guard up VERY close to fence when cutting thin strips, or is that one of the burdens I have to live with.

So whatever you have please put pics up here, never know your design might just might be the kick start to a whole new way of removing dust and preventing damage on table saws.

I temporarily just hung a 4" bell mouth from a hose above the blade, just to test it.

and like most temporary things its kind of become permanent. doesn't work perfect but sucks up some stuff and doesn't really get in the way.

Hood design can be tricky, especially when ripping thin sections, using a fence or cross cutting. In both cases the hood, if too wide, fouls the fence or jig. If you are using 35mm hose to connect, you really need to down very close to the timber to pick up the dust.

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At the moment, I’m using a Triton guard/hood (not the greatest design)as it mounts on a Triton table splitter which was an easy set up on my home made table saw.
50mm hose would be preferable but I can’t modify the hood to take it.
I have sat a 150mm bell mouth hood over the top (as haveabeer69 has done) and you don’t need to get down and close but then I can’t connect the table saw cabinet. However, because the circular saw I use has its own dust port (which is connected to a 50mm SuperVac), there isn’t a lot that gets into the saw cabinet cavity anyway - but that’s just my setup.
The hood I originally made (I sent you the thread link) worked great but it was heavy and difficult to mount so I gave it a miss. May get back to it later after I finish building a proper fence for the saw.

cheers Lappa.

Mine is throttled because of the 35mm opening into the hood, that is adapted to a 100mm flex line to a blast gate and it has so much air flow that it is always sucking up small thin offcuts.

So what your saying Chris, is to leave the 35mm connection at the hood and connect that, via adaptor, to a bigger line?
Are you taking the 100mm from a connection in the table 150mm line?

Originally Posted by Lappa

So what your saying Chris, is to leave the 35mm connection at the hood and connect that, via adaptor, to a bigger line?
Are you taking the 100mm from a connection in the table 150mm line?

On the overhead it is 35>100>150, the cabinet runs a separate independent line 100>150 and it can't be made 150 from the cabinet but due to the clear cover on the debris trap it sure pulls heaps of sawdust through it. My system is one of the few where you can visually see the cabinet saw dust in the duct and how much it is pulling out of the cabinet. My son has recently built a cabinet and I was able to watch the dust being extracted from the saw and I was astonished at how much came off a thin kerf blade.

Performance depends on the DE, less capable DE's need all the help they can get but what we take as "can't/shouldn't be done" is not always the case. If someone asks me to help with a DE problem the first question is what are you driving the system with and then the discussion starts. Anyone who wants to look at my ducted system is always welcome to have a look at any time even in the evening, I don't work but most have to. I now have it converted to auto blast gates and I can't begin to describe how much difference that makes. The invitation is there for anyone at any time to come and have a look.

sometimes the more you think about scenarios like dust covers etc the more red herrings pop up, like this evening I was sketching out a few ideas related about getting close to the fence, when push sticks how the blue blazes do I get a push stick onto a piece of timber when the 'overhead dust collector is up against the fence...
first world problems I know...

Originally Posted by Tonyz

sometimes the more you think about scenarios like dust covers etc the more red herrings pop up, like this evening I was sketching out a few ideas related about getting close to the fence, when push sticks how the blue blazes do I get a push stick onto a piece of timber when the 'overhead dust collector is up against the fence...
first world problems I know...

exactly as my pictures show!! No room when cutting thin sections. The BMH over the top works in that case but you have to have a half decent extractor to get the required air flow