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The next area is the slot where the lift handle comes out of the front of the cabinet. I know that blue tape will probably fall off in a week or two but using it temporary will at lest let me know how effective blocking this area off will be.īoth the left and right side of the cabinet meet the table top with a constant connection all the way across so no modification is needed there. Using it in a single layer felt like it wasn’t sealing anything off and I couldn’t get any in at all when it was folded over. I tried to block this area with the pipe insulation as well but didn’t have much luck. I had to over expose these shots so you could actually see the cast iron. The back has an access box that sticks out slightly and to each side there was a large opening directly into the cabinet with very little cast iron webbing in the way. So I went to the back side to do the same. This immediately helped a bit at the insert plate. I pushed it as much as I could to roll it into the cabinet so that it was roughly half in and half out. I could feel when it started to compress and slide between the top and cabinet. To plug this I cut a piece of the pipe insulation and rolled it into the cabinet.
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First to tackle where the top meets the cabinet in the front of the saw. The strongest drafts were felt at the front and back of the saw where the cabinet met the table and at the angled slot in the front of the cabinet where the lift handle comes through. I could barely feel any air moving through the insert plate. To start I hooked up the dust collector and turned it on so I could feel around the gaps in the saw to see where the air felt like it was being pulled in the most. Having great air flow down through the insert plate will obviously promote dust to follow gravity into the cabinet and having air flow from the motor door across the cabinet to the dust collection port will create a directional draft for dust to go toward the dust collection port. The objective is to have all of the air being sucked in through the insert plate and through the louvered door next to the motor. I hate giving my money to Walmart but that’s a topic for another day. After going to several places in town the only place I could find the magnetic printer sheets were at Walmart in the office supply area next to the resume paper. To do so I purchased some magnetic printer sheets and closed cell (I think) foam pipe insulation. In order for table saw dust collection to be effective with a dust collector you need to direct the air movement, not block it off. Hopefully this may be of some help to someone. I do have some extra ideas at the bottom for other types of saws. The steps I refer to below may not be 100% applicable to your saw but the general idea is the same. I just got a new table saw and while it does come with a 4” dust collection port it’s not incredibly optimized for dust collection. More often than not dust is hard to control in a wood shop.