HappyHacker wrote:Can you mount bits of soft brush anywhere that will at least stop the dust flying around and may give the extractor a chance of pulling it in?
I did wonder about that and it's current favourite.
Malc2098 wrote:I've got the veritas table and fence, which allows an adjustable gap in the fence either side of the cutter. I use the magnetic dust chute behind the fence and for the most part with just the aldi vacuum plugged in, it captures much, but not all, I admit, of the waste, even with a spiral up cutter, which is down spiral on a table, (I think.)
Unfortunately the panel raiser is totally underneath the MDF and is also very large. For example the opening in the fence is about 3 " to accommodate it.
Rod wrote:On my Norm clone table it sucks out at the fence and from underneath the router which is held in a separate chamber.
Very little escapes.
Rod
I wondered about that but bit concerned about sucking dust into the router itself.
Woodbloke wrote:I've got the Ax UJK ci table wot has the box underneath to hold the router, extraction being from the fence and the box, so not much nasty crud escapes, but if you're machining mdf, I'd wear a mask and then leave the 'shop for an hour to let any dust settle; good excuse then to pester the missus to get the kettle on
- Rob
See above re getting crud in the router. Yes, I was masked up and had the Jet air cleaner running at full whack. Trouble is that all that nasty MDF dust just settles on everything in the workshop and ready to be stirred up at another time when perhaps I'm not masked. I really do hate working with MDF but I think stability is needed for the panels I need.
Jonathan wrote:Get a cutter for the spindle moulder..... if it's a small run and cost is an issue get a set made to cut vertically and run off the fence.
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Nice idea, Jonathan, but unfortunately there is also a back cutter and ideally I like to do things in one pass. May well come back to this idea though.
Current thoughts are to find the dust extractor plastic gizmo that came with the DeWalt router and (a) see if it will fit underneath and let me suck dust from there. and (b) having realised that I'd not fitted the rear extraction 'hood' properly
, having now done so that has sealed the air escape route that I had created
I have two vacuum cleaners, a Camvac and the dust extractor to play with ! However I think that the latter two are not suitable being high volume and low pressure.
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.