Dust Buster

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October/November 2000
by Bill Greene  
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The next step - finding a tube that has a 1 1/8" outside diameter (the size required for a spout that would fit snugly inside the intake hose on a Shop Vac®)proved to be a challenge when I was building my own sawdust collector. I ended up using two old medical prescription containers that could be made into tubes by cutting the ends off. One had an outside diameter of exactly 1 1/8", and the other one fit tightly inside the first. After epoxying the two together I finished with a very strong spout. If you don't do it this way, make sure to leave 1 1/2" of the tube projecting outside.

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When you're finished, attach the sawdust collector to the underside of the saw table with 2"-long, 1/2"-diameter carriage bolts that are epoxied in place to the saw table (this is the same technique used in setting carriage bolts in the side brace supports on the table). Attach the carriage bolts to the sawdust collector by thrusting their ends through the holes in the collector's 1" lip that is formed by the 1x6 pine cleats. The sawdust collector should be positioned directly under the drop hole in the tabletop.

I have used this saw table with its sawdust evacuation system for a little over a year and found it to be quite satisfactory for my purposes. After some research (weighing sawdust collected in the Shop Vac® and swept up from the floor outside the system), I concluded that it removed between 75% and 85% of the sawdust generated by the saw.

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