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I have yet come up with a goo efficent one.
I have an ENM-12" Pistorious I have their vacu system.
It seems to lack & I still get what I consider excess sawdust all over the place sides out the top and behind.
Is there a way to improve on this system or better way to hook it up than they way they recommend?
 
Gumby, All I can say is that I'm glad I have a chopper - started out with a saw but in my small shop I had sawdust everywhere. Wish the chopper would cut some moldings as well as the saw does though. If there is a lot of gesso on the molding the chopper just doesn't do a good job, it chips it out no matter how sharp the blades are. Hope you find a remedy for your dust collector. Joe
 
I have a chopper also.
But for large runs & versitility you can't beat a saw.

But the dust collection system seems to be lacking at this point.
 
I've seen some woodworkers with metal shrouds around the back of their chop saws to try to catch the dust that flies around. Big dust bags and 4" pipes for collecting.

Maybe you could fashion a hood to chop in, like the hood exhaust fan systems that are in chemistry labs :)
 
you want to be as dust free as possible---2-stage AND flows in the 2000-3000 CFM area it might be of pretty good(assumes you keep the filter/reservoir clean/empty daily)----anything under that is, at best, just OK--you WILL have dust in the environment, even if you vacuum 2x a day. you use a saw and do NOT wish sawdust IN your business........get saw OUT of your shop into it's own little room(with NOTHING on the walls but paint) from which you can leave and shake/blow SD off you and the product & then go into your assembly area(and keep the transition area well vacuumed--like 3-4 x each day? . best bet? do as best as you can with what you have, vacuum well each night BEFORE you leave, assemble in the early am BEFORE you do much walking about(& kicking up the dust), and then vacuum after cutting(cleaning the filter
at least 1x during the cleaning)...you WILL have dust ... you just doint have to live with a dust storm!
 
The huge misconception about sawdust collection is that a 4" pipe/tube and a 2hp motor and triple bag should collect better than a 1hp screaming shop vac.

It's a balancing act between large volume but low "carry power", and high "carry power" with low collection capacity, and a vacuum that makes F-15s in "OP take-off" mode sound quiet.

If you can muffle a larger shop vac, and run the two inch hose through a cyclone on it's way to the shop vac... you will rarely empty the SV, have the cyclone dumping into a handy waste bin, and your "carry" at 2" is about 5x of the 2000CFM in a 4"...... the system will cost about the same.

If you can run the hose through the wall to the outside, and have all the collection in a shed, so much the better.
 
Denny when Baer said cyclone I thought of that system! Story goes when they demoed it at a trade show the customers all wanted a clear lid instead of the black lid they had for sale because the customers wanted to watch the vortex! I know I would....
 
This item from lee valley looks much better than the dust collector I bought at House of Tools... Is anyone out there using this? And how are the results? My basement is full of dust and the bottom of my CTD is always full of dust and the collector is empty!!
 
This is what I use:

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