Colleagues: am seriously contemplating shop fabricating a new router table. But have question about dust collection location.
1) Been told that routers draw cooling air from the router top, exhaust it from the bottom/bit end. Seen router table designs with the dust collection port at the bottom of the router enclosure with an open space/holes in the enclosure access door to draw in air. This is how my current router table is set up and it leaves some dust and chips in the enclosure.
Question: does this starve the motor for cooling air?
2) Also seen router tables with the dust collection port and opening to draw in air placed under the table at router plate level. Supposedly, this design is much more effective to remove dust and chips. Question: does this starve the motor cooling air?
3) Would it be better to have the dust collection mounted under the table at router plate level and open space/access holes on the bottom of router enclosure access door? Dust collection would draw in cool air from the bottom with the air pulled by the dust collection system and router fan into the router and exhaust it at the bit where the warm air and dust/chips would be pulled into the dust collection system?
Or am I just over thinking this??
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