I've been using it for a while now, and I really like the dust collection. I installed a piece of melamine-faced particleboard directly under the saw. It slopes down toward the back of the cabinet, where there's a 5" wide cavity for the chips to drop into. In that cabinet is another piece of melamine-faced hardboard, sloping toward one side, where a piece of 4" ABS plumbing pipe connects to my dust collector hose. You can see the configuration of these dust-directing ramps in the photo below. I also packed foam scraps from an old mattress pad up under the cast iron top, to limit air leakage.
View of the unfinished box from the rear, showing the melamine ramps that direct dust to the port at the lower right side of the cabinet. |
I still need to fit the storage, but here's the saw mounted and usable, with the old stock steel legs sitting on top. |