Recently built a new cross-cut sled. Works great... but between the ZC insert in the throat plate, and the ZC cut in the sled... there ain't much in the way of actual dust collection going on above the table.
I'm planning on building a clear blade guard / cover similar to what is shown in Willian Ng's video on the 5-cut method for calibrating the sled, and it seems like there should be *some* way to add some DC to that. Or along side it, or something.
I've seen a few videos where people have added a vacuum port to the blade guard 'box' on the face of the front fence. Doesn't seem like it'd help all that much, but maybe 'something' is better than nothing?
Just to make things more difficult, my saw is mobile (roll-around), so the usual 'hang it from the ceiling or a boom off the shop wall' doesn't really work for my situation. I have been eye-balling the Sawstop PCS 'over-arm dust collection' setup... it *looks* like a big 'U' of some thing - metal, PVC? - and looks like it might be feasible to fabricate a home-brew version and run 2-1/2" hose to the sled that way...
At any rate, I'm interested in what kind of solutions you may have arrived at for this particular conundrum