"-MIKE-" wrote in message
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I want to put a dust port on this wonderful Jet JBS-14mw.

Where's the best place to put a dust port?
I know I can look at pictures of other saws, but sometimes the wrong
engineers decide that. Like the guy responsible for making sure the case
can be stamped out in one pressing decides the port should be moved from
the most efficient location to a horrible spot.

My first clue is the pile of sawdust right underneath where the blade is
doing it's cutting. This thing doesn't "seal up" at all when the doors
close, so I don't think I can reply on vacuum pressure inside the
machine to move the dust very far. (Yeah, sounds like I answered my own
question, I know.)

I don't have a problem with cutting a hole in its heavy cast-metal(*?)
casing. I've already drilled a tapped a few holes in it and it seems
pretty strong.

*I don't think it's iron, but it is very heavy and magnetic (ferrous?).


Regardless of where you add a port, I think you are always going to end up
having to open the saw up after use and vacuum out some areas, and the table
top will probably always have some dust. If the DC gets 95% you will be
doing good.
I have only witnessed a few tools that dust collection has worked with
99.99% effectiveness. My DC hooked up to my Delta stationary planer, My
Festool vac hooked up to my Domino and both Festool Sanders, Ah, one more,
My Festool Vac hooked up to my Kreg Pocket Hole jig.

My Laguna has the port on the bottom back side centered under the blade as
it goes back up to the top wheel. with any band saw, if you don't get it
all immediately after the cut the dust is going to be "fanned" by both upper
and lower wheels and you will end up with a little bit every where.