Show me your Router Table DC

[Marc Prudhomme]

Anyone have any pics of their router table Dust collection set-up?
Marc

[Peter M. Spirito]

I plan to write an article on the entire router table construction for my website in the near future. :)

[Jim O'Dell]

Marc, I made mine an up/side draft design after Bill Huber from here at SMC posted a thread on what he had done, why, and the good results he had with his. http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=65058&highlight=updraft+router+table
The "why" is that the motor draws in air to cool the motor from the top. When we turn the router upside down and install into a cabinet unit, we in turn, make the air to cool the motor come in from the bottom. If we pull all the dust and chunks of wood out the bottom, the only air to cool the motor is "dirty" air. Make sense?
So my rendition of his idea has a 2 X 10" slot at the top side of the router "box". For some pictures see starting at post 128 on this thread: http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=14427&page=5
There is a 6" hole at the bottom that I can close off with a sliding "door" as needed. This allows fresh air to come in past the router catch the chips at the top and out the side. It is not the optimum design, as I decided to do it this way after I had already built the box. I did not build a plate around my router as Bill did.
Hope this helps! Jim.

[Jon Todd]

Here is mine. I need to update the pics i now have the PC 7518 and a woodpecker lift but you get the idea.

http://www.ncwoodworker.net/pp/data/500/Jet_saw_2-3-08_0131.jpg


http://www.ncwoodworker.net/pp/data/500/Router_table_DC_2_.jpg


http://www.ncwoodworker.net/pp/data/500/Router_Dust_collection_003.jpg

[Jeff Miller]

This sucks up about 98% of the waste


http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f32/woodfarmer/New%20Shop%20Pictures/newshop029.jpg



http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f32/woodfarmer/New%20Shop%20Pictures/newshop030.jpg


JEFF:)

[Bill Huber]

Here is the info that Jim was talking about, it is working very well. I have not had a problem with dust in the motor and I have routed a lot of wood. I still do get large chips in the box but I don't get the dust that I was getting with the old system of just having the DC in the box.

I can adjust the amount of vacuum to the fence or the port.

I am just using a shop vac with a mini cyclone on it and that also works very well on the router.

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[Marc Prudhomme]

Jeff Do you have a 4" DC hose on the fence and a 2 1/2 Vac hose in the cabinet???
This sucks up about 98% of the waste


http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f32/woodfarmer/New%20Shop%20Pictures/newshop029.jpg



http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f32/woodfarmer/New%20Shop%20Pictures/newshop030.jpg


JEFF:)

[Jeff Miller]

Jeff Do you have a 4" DC hose on the fence and a 2 1/2 Vac hose in the cabinet???


No, what you see is the jointer hose. When I use the router table part of the table saw I use the table saw hose. I was surprised how well it works without the router being in closed.It really takes care of all of the dust,just some bigger pieces fall down below.

Here's a pic explaining what you're seeing.

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f32/woodfarmer/New%20Shop%20Pictures/newshop018.jpg


JEFF

[Greg Hines, MD]

I could not find any photos of my dust collector setup, but I use a PC 890, with a dust shield and through the handle collection for half of it, and then just a Woodcraft attachment to the back of the fence. These are connected by shop vacuum hoses to a 2 1/4" PVC Wye, which then can be connected to the shop vac or to a dust collector.

Doc