Glen Blanchard
04-17-2005, 2:00 PM
Well I imagine that I have not followed proper Netequitte here, so I am going to try to make amends. I have posted a few times here gleaning the vast expertise of this forum’s members without first introducing myself – I will do that now.
The father of 2 girls (ages 12 and 16) I began woodworking for pleasure in 1999, and have just recently gotten back into the hobby after a year or so unintentional hiatus (summers are hot and winters are cold in my little garage shop). I am a dentist (that explains the avatar) and practice in Carrollton, Texas, a northern suburb of Dallas, and I live in an adjacent suburb – Plano. My shop is too small to make anything significant, so I mostly make decorative boxes and such, which I greatly enjoy. My current project is making a humidor for a college buddy of mine.
I have done some upgrading to my shop over the last 6 weeks including
· Built new router table top for my new Jointech digital router lift (that lift is really cool)
· Upgraded my DC system
· Purchased an Excalibur overhead blade guard
· Purchased a Biesemeyer snap in splitter for my TS
· Installed a riser for my Jet 14” BS
· And most significantly, replaced my Jet contractor saw with a Jet cabinet saw – photo attached making this gloat legal.
So I apologize for not introducing myself earlier – just got too excited tapping into the wealth of information shared here. Let me add that this forum is a true pleasure to read!! The level of camaraderie and courtesy is a breath of fresh air. I wish I could say that I enjoy this same level of respect on all of my dental forums – sadly I do not. What a wonderful community y’all have here.
Now for my question – it relates to dust collection at a cabinet saw. I have DC connections at the base of my cabinet saw as well as through the Excalibur overhead blade guard. As I only use zero-clearance inserts, it seems that 95% of the dust created is above the table. Currently I have a single blast gate opening up both the hose to the overhead guard as well as the one to the base of the cabinet. This arrangement obviously “dilutes” the effectiveness of dust collection at the overhead guard. Would it make sense to install another blast gate for the run to the cabinet base and normally keep that closed, opening it only periodically to pull out the accumulated dust in the cabinet. Doing so would maximize the collection of dust above the table where most of the dust is created. Does this make sense? How are others with DC above the table handling this?
The father of 2 girls (ages 12 and 16) I began woodworking for pleasure in 1999, and have just recently gotten back into the hobby after a year or so unintentional hiatus (summers are hot and winters are cold in my little garage shop). I am a dentist (that explains the avatar) and practice in Carrollton, Texas, a northern suburb of Dallas, and I live in an adjacent suburb – Plano. My shop is too small to make anything significant, so I mostly make decorative boxes and such, which I greatly enjoy. My current project is making a humidor for a college buddy of mine.
I have done some upgrading to my shop over the last 6 weeks including
· Built new router table top for my new Jointech digital router lift (that lift is really cool)
· Upgraded my DC system
· Purchased an Excalibur overhead blade guard
· Purchased a Biesemeyer snap in splitter for my TS
· Installed a riser for my Jet 14” BS
· And most significantly, replaced my Jet contractor saw with a Jet cabinet saw – photo attached making this gloat legal.
So I apologize for not introducing myself earlier – just got too excited tapping into the wealth of information shared here. Let me add that this forum is a true pleasure to read!! The level of camaraderie and courtesy is a breath of fresh air. I wish I could say that I enjoy this same level of respect on all of my dental forums – sadly I do not. What a wonderful community y’all have here.
Now for my question – it relates to dust collection at a cabinet saw. I have DC connections at the base of my cabinet saw as well as through the Excalibur overhead blade guard. As I only use zero-clearance inserts, it seems that 95% of the dust created is above the table. Currently I have a single blast gate opening up both the hose to the overhead guard as well as the one to the base of the cabinet. This arrangement obviously “dilutes” the effectiveness of dust collection at the overhead guard. Would it make sense to install another blast gate for the run to the cabinet base and normally keep that closed, opening it only periodically to pull out the accumulated dust in the cabinet. Doing so would maximize the collection of dust above the table where most of the dust is created. Does this make sense? How are others with DC above the table handling this?