Got the mitre saw and bench all set up...excuse the junk in the photos...I seem to be spending all my time moving stuff from A to B and back to A again.
It's dropped into its own well to bring it to the right height for the two benches on either side. In my last workshop I had the main support on the left..
..an early photo
It had a straight edge running down it with a ruler on top and one of these from Axminster..
A good idea but never worked that well as it all depended on the width of the kerf in the saw blade and if that changed ....
So I usually ended up just using the stop to get consistent lengths between pieces. But that often relied on having the support bench to the right clear of stuff. And so anyone who knows me knows that given a horizontal surface I will fill it. So that idea didn't work as well as it should have.
Anyway, I've lost track of the Axminster gizmo...it's in a box somewhere..so we'll just have to suck it and see.
Of more interest to me was the dust extraction. The mitre saw does create an awful lot of dust..much more than some other machines. In my old workshop I had it plumbed in to my main extractor but as I always had to plug in the pipe, switch gates etc I never did it. So the sawdust just built up. So this time I wanted a dedicated extractor for the mitre saw. Or semi-dedicated as I had the Nilfisk in mind to double up as the shop vac. It's got the power take-off which was essential in my book. Trouble was that, nice thought it is, the hose is very stiff and the outlet on the Festool Kapex is proprietary.
I faffed around for ages but eventually came to the conclusion that the hose was too stiff as it kept pulling out any adapter that I came up with. I also came to the decision to have a dedicated vac for the saw. I saw this cheapie reduced Einhell and so went for it.
Turns out to be a good buy for around £60. The hose is super-flexible.
And now here's the 'magic' bit
Wrap a lot of turns of duck tape round the Kapex dust outlet. Take a 40mm 90 degree waste pipe bend
Then add one of these
and connect them all together
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.