jeff piatt
03-02-2020, 9:27 PM
first off, thank you to everyone who takes the time to help us out with these things. your knowledge and experience is greatly appreciated.
we have a sliding table saw with an overarm collector on it and also one at the bottom. when the tiger fence is out of the way, it does an ok job. the problem is that when it is down it only allows the fence to come about 5 inches close to the saw, which isn't good enough. for smaller cutting it has to be raised up about 4 inches and when it is, the dust is really bad that collects on the saw.
we are running 2 1100cfm collectors attached to 4 in pipe running through our shop with stops at each machine. it seems there should be more than enough suction to make this not an issue but not so. from reading other posts, would you think we have restricted the air flow too much in an attempt to get more suction and that we need more volume? perhaps just disconnecting the top one and just using the bottom would make it better?
I am thinking that I need to build a new overarm collector that is slimmer and only covers the blade. does anyone have any pics of this being done?
I thought I had pics on my phone but alas, not so. I will post some later.
we have a sliding table saw with an overarm collector on it and also one at the bottom. when the tiger fence is out of the way, it does an ok job. the problem is that when it is down it only allows the fence to come about 5 inches close to the saw, which isn't good enough. for smaller cutting it has to be raised up about 4 inches and when it is, the dust is really bad that collects on the saw.
we are running 2 1100cfm collectors attached to 4 in pipe running through our shop with stops at each machine. it seems there should be more than enough suction to make this not an issue but not so. from reading other posts, would you think we have restricted the air flow too much in an attempt to get more suction and that we need more volume? perhaps just disconnecting the top one and just using the bottom would make it better?
I am thinking that I need to build a new overarm collector that is slimmer and only covers the blade. does anyone have any pics of this being done?
I thought I had pics on my phone but alas, not so. I will post some later.