plastic bag mitersaw dust collection

[Brian Knop]

Does anyone use a large industrial plastic bag to collect there mitersaw dust? I saw this in a magazine once. If so where did you get the bag at.

[mickey cassiba]

Never tried that, but I did build a flex hose DC system on our mter saw in the "test lab". It is simply a 4" hose clamped to the dust outlet on the guard with a dedicated air hose blowing into the hose away from the saw. We have to cut cross sections of each moulding and compare them to our "master sections" prior to a production run. As there is not a lot of cutting going on(2-3) per set up, it keeps the sawdust out of the lab very well. The hose passes through a wall and deposits into a covered hopper which is emptied daily. Probably not practical for a production set up, but perfect for this task.
Mickey