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General Category => General Scroll Saw Talk => Topic started by: wildbill on April 22, 2010, 08:28:50 am
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In January I retired my first and only scroll saw a Sears 20" contractors saw purchased in 1985 great saw but it was time to go new. So I went to Woodcraft and got a great deal on 788 the whole pack.
Stand and light for under 550.00 out the door. The only draw back is when I am cutting and not wearing a apron the sawdust goes into my lap. It's a mess and of course I get spoken too when I leave my bunker to take a break. Does any one have any ideas on how I can collect the dust some how?
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this is an issue with any top loader as the bottom chuck needs to be eaisly accessable I use an apron and try to position myself away from the main dust pattern, have at times used a small shop vac with an attachment aquired from Ray at SEYCO.
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I am understanding that is a problem with the saw. I have tried to hook my shop vac to the saw but I am having a hard time mounting it so it will stay put. Thanks for the reply.
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WildBill I put a small fan that blows across the side and it takes the sawdust away . I have a friend that has mounted a filter to the back of a cheap box fan and he says that it sucks most of the dust away from him .............Marshall :o
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I use the furnace filter attached to a box fan trick and it works wonders for keeping the dust down in the shop and the attached blower helps to keep my lap empty.
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I just let it all go all over me. Nothing like being all sawdusty... makes me feel alive :D
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Hi WildBill -
The only saw I have ever owned is a 788. I assumed that the sawdust would get all over you on any brand. I am going to set up a box fan like Marshall is talking about and see how it works. Thanks for asking the question.
Barry
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I installed a cardboard box under the saw with a flange that reaches up as high as it will go underneath the saw, the dust slides down the flange into the box. It catches about 75% of the dust which means a little bit less of a clean-up.
Any dust remaining on the table I just blow away (to the back of the saw) with a can of air, then I use my shop-vac about once a week to clean that mess up. I tried hooking up a shop vac but couldn't get it to stay where I wanted it to.
Regards...Keith
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Coffee always tastes best with a little sawdust in it... LOL
Ez
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I want to thank you all for the feedback. I do have coffee with my saw dust. And sometimes I do like the sawdust all over me. But when I exit the shop and I have'nt gotten all the saw dust off me Boy I get in trouble. Ever hear the saying Happy Wife Happy Life. Again thank you all who gave me the suggestions.
The Wild One
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Wildbill, Seems to me you need to start making things for you wife to keep her happy! ;)
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Hey dgman
wildbill here my wife is my best customer. I am my worse critic so of many of my creations don't leave my scrap box. What does make it up stairs goes to her.
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Wildbill. Most of the things I make end up as gifts. I teach scroll saw at the local Woodcraft and have a lot of my projects on display in the store!
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If you wear pants with cuffs, you don't have to worry about tracking sawdust into the house. Just don't cross your legs!