Mr Ed
Established Member
Hi Karl
Glad you enjoyed the article. It got heavily edited between me writing it and it appearing in the magazine so good to hear it still made sense.
I've never connected the crown guard dust port, originally because I didn't have the equipment to do it, but in time I found it was OK without it. I rely on the Karcher vac pipe stuck into the rear dust port - this is OK, but a fair bit of dust gathers inside the bottom of the machine. Periodically I clear this out. The shop vac I have has a power take off, so it comes on and off with the saw.
Some people (I know Woodbloke did) have blocked the rear dust port and made a hopper on the bottom of the case to connect from there. My saw sits on a stand with a solid metal top, so I cannot do this without major modification. I have toyed with various ways of improving it, but its OK, so I'll probably leave it and upgrade to a better saw one day.
Cheers, Ed.
Glad you enjoyed the article. It got heavily edited between me writing it and it appearing in the magazine so good to hear it still made sense.
I've never connected the crown guard dust port, originally because I didn't have the equipment to do it, but in time I found it was OK without it. I rely on the Karcher vac pipe stuck into the rear dust port - this is OK, but a fair bit of dust gathers inside the bottom of the machine. Periodically I clear this out. The shop vac I have has a power take off, so it comes on and off with the saw.
Some people (I know Woodbloke did) have blocked the rear dust port and made a hopper on the bottom of the case to connect from there. My saw sits on a stand with a solid metal top, so I cannot do this without major modification. I have toyed with various ways of improving it, but its OK, so I'll probably leave it and upgrade to a better saw one day.
Cheers, Ed.
