quick and dirty router table dust collector

[mike calabrese]

Working on some oak table legs using a bearing pattern bit and no fence on the table.
I was getting a bunch of router dust and shavings all over the place had to keep cleaning it up.
Then a light went off in my head and it illuminated what you see below.
Simply enough it is my beat up floor sweep I use with ny dust collector..
I simply taped it to the router table stuck a 4 in hose on it and most (not all) of the router waste was captured.
Best part of all if you don't have one you can get one for under 20.00 bucks .
Typical example https://www.amazon.com/POWERTEC-701...t+collector+floor+sweep&qid=1671827368&sr=8-5
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[Andrew More]

Cheap and smart, good job!

[Tom Bender]

Excellent!

Looks like the work might have been a little tall for the weep. You might do even better if you raise it a couple of inches on blocking. Airflow would be a little more widely distributed (well undistributed) and would be less likely thrown over the top.

[Brian Tymchak]

Nice! I was very recently trying to figure out that very thing as I had a lot of fenceless routing to do.