I've posted on this topic before -- sorry -- I'm now ready to buid
one....

I'm looking for plans to build a dust hood for a sliding compound miter
saw (SCMS). I DAGS and found several interesting designs.

One home made version I like can be found at
http://www.woodworking.org/imagepost/users/00002353/ . Look for the
September 17, 2004 entry.

I think I could improve that design with some doors on the front side
to make the opening smaller. You'd only open the doors when making
angled cuts.

Any other designs or pictures?

Cheers.

"Never Enough Money" wrote in message
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I've posted on this topic before -- sorry -- I'm now ready to buid
one....

I'm looking for plans to build a dust hood for a sliding compound miter
saw (SCMS). I DAGS and found several interesting designs.

One home made version I like can be found at
http://www.woodworking.org/imagepost/users/00002353/ . Look for the
September 17, 2004 entry.

I think I could improve that design with some doors on the front side
to make the opening smaller. You'd only open the doors when making
angled cuts.

I saw one like that last week at an auction, only it was a smooth hemisphere
in the back. That guy had the nicest tools...

What was it made of?

Toller wrote:
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I saw one like that last week at an auction, only it was a smooth hemisphere
in the back. That guy had the nicest tools...

Make sure you put the saw in all it's positions before you close in the
opening too much.
You don't want to spend the time building it then have to make changes when
you find out that cutting a seldom used compound miter make the saw hit the
hood.
I had to tweak mine a couple of times before I got it right.


Here is mine on my chop saw.
http://www.woodworking.org/photo/dis...5148&pos=-1406
Notice the hose on the saws dust port. I had to add this to keep the dust
from bouncing back out. You can't see it but there is a small spring on the
end of the hose connected to the bottom of the hood that keeps the dust
pointing toward the bottom of the hood no mater which way you turn the saw.
This may not work on a sliding saw.



"Never Enough Money" wrote in message
oups.com...
I've posted on this topic before -- sorry -- I'm now ready to buid
one....

I'm looking for plans to build a dust hood for a sliding compound miter
saw (SCMS). I DAGS and found several interesting designs.

One home made version I like can be found at
http://www.woodworking.org/imagepost/users/00002353/ . Look for the
September 17, 2004 entry.

I think I could improve that design with some doors on the front side
to make the opening smaller. You'd only open the doors when making
angled cuts.

Any other designs or pictures?

Cheers.

Good advice, Tom. I'll take it to heart.

A few questions:
1) Is 100% of the vacuun going through the hose or is there also some
inside the box?
2) What's the button looking thing at the top of the box?
3) I noticed you built wings for the miter saw. I was considering
buying the Biesemeyer version. Did you find it difficult to make
everything true? 90 degrees, flat, etc?

Tom H wrote:
Make sure you put the saw in all it's positions before you close in the
opening too much.
You don't want to spend the time building it then have to make changes when
you find out that cutting a seldom used compound miter make the saw hit the
hood.
I had to tweak mine a couple of times before I got it right.


Here is mine on my chop saw.
http://www.woodworking.org/photo/dis...5148&pos=-1406
Notice the hose on the saws dust port. I had to add this to keep the dust
from bouncing back out. You can't see it but there is a small spring on the
end of the hose connected to the bottom of the hood that keeps the dust
pointing toward the bottom of the hood no mater which way you turn the saw.
This may not work on a sliding saw.



"Never Enough Money" wrote in message
oups.com...
I've posted on this topic before -- sorry -- I'm now ready to buid
one....

I'm looking for plans to build a dust hood for a sliding compound miter
saw (SCMS). I DAGS and found several interesting designs.

One home made version I like can be found at
http://www.woodworking.org/imagepost/users/00002353/ . Look for the
September 17, 2004 entry.

I think I could improve that design with some doors on the front side
to make the opening smaller. You'd only open the doors when making
angled cuts.

Any other designs or pictures?

Cheers.