DC for CMS?

[Bill Lewis]

Well this weekend I completed the DC ductwork, and started doing some hook-ups. I tried out the planer and jointer and both work fantastic. I more than filled the 55 gallon barrel. Those hookups are pretty straight forward but I am having a time figuring out what's the best way to hook up the 5" duct to the CMS. I have a DeWalt 705 I have it mounted on a Delta (50-175) Kickstand. The little dust bag does collect the majority of the dust, but not all of it. I want some sort of connection in place of the dust bag, but also a hood of some sort to get as much of the rest as possible. I played around with it a little, but I was having too much fun with the planer and jointer.

Any suggestions, pictures, links to websites etcetera on how you guys have approached this problem bfor ideas would be appreciated.

Eventually I intend to replace the kickstand with a cabinet on wheels. I find that I have to move the stand from time to time for really long stock.

[Bill Arnold]

Bill

This may not help you a lot, but here's a photo of my miter saw setup. My saw is in a dedicated position on my wall bench because I use it quite a lot. There are panels on each side of the saw to form an enclosure. I have a 4" hose coming to the side of the enclosure -- it is split between drawing from the enclosure and a 1.25" hose that goes to the dust chute on the saw. A majority of the shavings get vacuumed as I cut and the enclosure traps most of the remainder making it easy to remove by disconnecting the small hose and vacuuming the enclosure.
Regards,

[Jeff Sudmeier]

Bill,

Below is a picture of what I built for my SCMS. It doesn't get all of the dust, but it does capture a lot of it. Above the SCMS you can see the air cleaner. Between the DC running and the Air cleaner running, most of the dust gets collected. The shroud is basically a box with a 4 inch port in the back. I connected the port to my ducts using some 4" hose.

My SCMS dust collection thread (http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=16882)

http://www.woodworkersweb.com/modules/gallery/albums/albut49/100_7824.sized.jpg

[Bob Winkler]

I decided that I didn't want to run my big DC for the 10 seconds that the CMS takes to make my cut. So I tucked a small ridgid shop vac under the CMS stand, and adapted it's 2 1/2" hose to the dust bag port of my CMS.

I'm really surprised at how well it works. I also added one of those switches from Sears that starts the vac automatically, and shuts it off a few seconds after the CMS. Works great.:)

Bob

[Jim Becker]

I use a method simliar to that in the NYW with both a guard pickup and an undermount, downdraft port. (Your saw must be "hollow" for that to work) Pics in my pictorial on building the miter station (http://sawsndust.com/p-miterstation.htm)that's in my shop. It's relatively effective, but the CMS (or SCMS) is the hardest machine to collect from in the shop. I do not believe there is anything that is more than about 80% effective for this particular machine due to its nature...

[Alan Mikkelsen]

Like Bill Arnold, I have a hood with a 4" hose attached to the bottom and a 2 1/2" hose, with a 1 1/4" adapter that attaches to the port where the dust bag hangs. The hood is on pipe which allows it to slide to the appropriate angle being cut. The last photo is the one that shows this most clearly. There is probably about a weeks worth of sawdust sitting on top of the hood. I think this setup gets 99% of the mess.

[Andy London]

Not a great image...taken quite a long time ago.....This set up catches about 90% of the dust.

http://www.picframer.ca/shopad1.jpg

[Dave Harker]

I have a web page about my MS DC setup. There is a hold in the miter saw bench I made, for "under the saw" dust collection, as well as a small shroud behind the saw, and a hose hooked to the saw's dust-bag location. The hose runs into the box under the table, where the 6" PVC connects, with a built-in blast gate.

Here is a pic, and a link to my web page having many more, showing the construction of the MS bench, the hole under the saw, etc.

my miter saw DC web page (http://webpages.charter.net/harkerhome/WWShop/dcmitersaw.html)

http://webpages.charter.net/harkerhome/images/dustcollection/dcmsPVCHookup.JPG