"Dan" wrote in message
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On Tue 01 Feb 2005 08:59:52p, "John Grossbohlin"
wrote in

Why is your friend unhappy with the dust collection on his saw? Does it
miss a lot of dust or is he just trying to cover up all the holes? I'm of
the opinion that if you don't put enough suckage on the saw, all the
tuning
in the world isn't going to fix it and if you DO put enough CFM on the
saw,
you don't need much tuning.

From what he describes I think it might be a case of obsession... ;-) He has
a Penn State 1.5 HP dust collector hooked up to the plastic dust pan in the
bottom of the saw and has an overarm collector for the blade. Yet he is
complaining about dust being "thrown all over the place." He showed me
pictures of various dust chutes for inside the saw and tried to make up a
magnetic cover for the back of the saw. On that note I forwarded him the
info on the Dust Monkey.

I was leaning towards the fence not being parrallel to the blade but he
insists the overarm collector would take care of that... I also speculated
that he was running too much flexible hose the tool and killing the
suction--he told me he bought a 50' roll!

I had a contractors saw hooked up to a 1 HP Delta dust collector via 4"
spiral pipe and didn't have much of a dust problem. Of course taking another
1/8" off a board, or forgetting to open the blast gate, or turning the dust
collector on have to be ignored here. ;-)

John