[Horseapple Man]

Has anyone gotten anything like this to work?

What's happening is the sawdust is hitting the white stuff so fast its getting deflected upwards. I might have to put a lip on the top or something.

Hardly anything goes into the little cloth bag. In fact I took it off and watched it while I cut the end off a scrap and hardly anything came out. Even had the wife hold a shop vac hose up to it.

The sawdust comes out by the blade.

This is a work in progress. It does help keep the floor clean, but not as well as I expected.

That white material is bathroom wall stuff. It's really flimsy. A 4x8 sheet of it cannot stand up leaning against the wall, it just flops over. It seems to be vinyl or something similar.

$25 for a 4x8 sheet at Menards.

Probably the perfect material for tool box drawer liners. Cuts easily with a utility knife or scissors.

 

[GeorgeC]

To stop most of a miter saw dust you have to fully enclose the saw. What you did will catch some.

george

 

[woodnthings]

Maybe start with a 30 gallon trash can, either rectangular or round. It will be easier to close in around the saw and the bottom will serve as a "lid".
That beats making a plywood box. A large appliance box would also work, like from a dishwasher.

 

[Jim Frye]

How close to the workpiece does the blade guard get? My CMS collects about half of the cuttings with the vac port (195 cfm vac). The rest gets thrown out back. In the shop, I set the CMS up close to a shop wall and just suck up the pile that forms under the saw when I'm done.

 

[DrRobert]

Cloth dust hoods work pretty well. You can fashion one out if wire and heavy cloth or buy one.

 

[woodnthings]

Thanks for the compliment woodnthings! Here are more pictures of the dust collection for the miter, It is big and bulky but it works GREAT! I was fortunate to have enough space to buils a big and bulky miter shroud. It hooks up to my dust collector and any dust not inhaled by the collector never gets past the shroud and I then just brush it near the inhaler and it is gone.
I have been refining a design for it so I can have storage on top for all the stuff that seems to accumulate there.

Here's the best one I've seen posted on WWT:

Miter Saw Dust Collection

Been trying to take dust collect in my small shop more seriously. I use a shop vac right now, may move to a dedicated dust collector in the future. But right now my worst offender seems to be my miter saw. It's a bosch 10" single bevel slider that I've had for 13 years. It's a great saw but...

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There a bunch of ideas here:

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[Horseapple Man]

How close to the workpiece does the blade guard get?

I have to hold it up when I do a miter, or it'll get stuck on the workpiece.

 

[Steve Neul]

Has anyone gotten anything like this to work?

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What's happening is the sawdust is hitting the white stuff so fast its getting deflected upwards. I might have to put a lip on the top or something.

Hardly anything goes into the little cloth bag. In fact I took it off and watched it while I cut the end off a scrap and hardly anything came out. Even had the wife hold a shop vac hose up to it.

The sawdust comes out by the blade.

This is a work in progress. It does help keep the floor clean, but not as well as I expected.

That white material is bathroom wall stuff. It's really flimsy. A 4x8 sheet of it cannot stand up leaning against the wall, it just flops over. It seems to be vinyl or something similar.

$25 for a 4x8 sheet at Menards.

Probably the perfect material for tool box drawer liners. Cuts easily with a utility knife or scissors.

I made one for a radial arm saw but I angled the shoot down to another one angled out which went into a drawer under the saw. It caught the majority of the dust from the saw.

 

[Rebelwork]

Kills a lot of space. Glad you guys have such roomy shops

 

[Horseapple Man]

Kills a lot of space. Glad you guys have such roomy shops

It does take up space. That's why my miter bench has wheels. If I need to get a car in there, I can roll it off to the side, roll it into the unheated side of the pole barn, or if I absolutely have to, I can roll it outside.

 

[B Coll]

Good ideas all. I learned quickly around 50 years ago that working wood shops have sawdust on the floor. I try to reasonably minimize it, but certainly make no effort to collect all dust unless the dust interferes with a particular operation. I have a decent dust collection system for all my machines, but still end up with some dust on the floor and machines. My miter saw is a Makita and does a good job of collecting much of the dust, but it still ends up on the floor, So every 1/2 hour or so of working I use my other dust collector, a push broom and dust pan. Works well for me.

 

[calabrese55]

Pictures added today 2-25-2023

Wow some of the builds here are killer. Beautifully done .
I don't have a picture at the moment but I threw one together is about 1 hour using 1 1/2 in PVC pipe for the support and a simple storage bucket cut to suit. Sits directly behind my saw and has a 4 inch hose connection in the bottom .
The thing about this type of saw is unless you have room and a big budget getting all the dust is a challenge . Get what you can and build on.
I will post images if anyone is interested. Total cost about $20 the image below is a typical Walmart plastic bucket like the one I used.
calabrese55

 

[allpurpose]

Kills a lot of space. Glad you guys have such roomy shops

Roomy ain't ezacly what comes to mind in my shop. Learning to walk sideways to keep from knocking everything over however does..