Thread: Dust port on a b/saw - anyone made one?

The Triton dust bucket (modified) shoved up under the table just behind my blade works a treat for me. Collects almost all the dust. I just sits in there wedged between the bracket and table top.

G'day Gumby,

So just the hose seems to work for you (thought that's what I remembered seeing) except I don't have any way of wedging it under the table.

I'll have to put my thinking cap on, might need to get a Woodie cap to help me out.

Have a look at the 14" Jet and see how they do it. Probably not the best method, but would be very easy to adapt to pretty much any other table.

I've added to the jet, by taking a boot brush, cutting it in two, and one is bolted to rub on the top wheel, and the other on the bottom. Used to remove any sawdust from the rubber of the wheel before it gets caked in place between the wheel and the blade and increases blade vibration.

G'day Stuart Lees,

Thanks for that. Found a pic of a Jet and can see what they do.

You do realise that now I'll down in the shed longer trying to sort out a solution and my wifey will say, "What are you doing, don't you have more important things to do than that?"

I have a home-made dust port fitted to my Carbatec castiron frame 14" bandsaw. It is basically a rectangular plywood box with cutouts on the edges so it goes around the bottom blade guides. Air is sucked in through the open top, picks up about 95% of the sawdust, and goes out through a short piece of round plastic drain pipe (in the bottom of the box) that has a hose from my vacuum cleaner pushed onto it.
I screwed magnets I got from Bunnings onto one side of the box so I can pull the box off when I am changing blades and adjusting the bottom blade guides. These magnets are powerful enough to hold the box firmly onto the side of the bandsaw frame but at the same time they make it easy to pull and put the box back on.
It works OK for me and I did not have to drill any holes or make any permanent changes to the bandsaw
Paul

You can't say that you really own a piece of equipment until you've modified it.

Scroll down this page from Timbecon, may be what you want.
http://www.timbecon.com.au/products/...ies-314_0.aspx

G'day Stuart Lees,

Oh I own the b/saw, if owning it comes only if you've modified it.

Previously the motor was held by 4 bolts on a vertical piece of metal which made changing the speed of the belt very hard, since then I have modified it to be bolted on a hinged piece of steel which by its own weight puts tension on the belt.

Now I just lift the motor to change the speed. Look Ma, no bolts to undo.