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   MisterT | Aug 05, 2004 01:11pm | #1

   Crown stops are good if you do a lot of crown.

   with all the angle calculators and tables out there, many will say just cut it flat.

   But when you got to tweak an angle a half or quarter of a degree, or take a rch off the top of the angle but not the bottom......

   NOTHING beats having the crown standing up against the fence so you can see exactly what the results of you cut will be BEFORE saw!!!

   They call me MISTER CROWN!! UH UH UH !!!

   Mr T

   Happiness is a cold wet nose

   Life is is never to busy to stop and pet the Doggies!!

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   andybuildz | Aug 05, 2004 02:37pm | #2

   I have all the accesories and they all work great but there should be a group lawsuit against DW for that piece a crap $35 dust catcher....all it does is catch yer $35.....Really pizzes me off cause they totally knew when they sold it it doesnt work AT ALL!!!!

   Be Dusty Roads

   andy

   The secret of Zen in two words is, "Not always so"!

   http://CLIFFORDRENOVATIONS.COM

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   jerseyjeff | Aug 05, 2004 06:49pm | #4

   Has any one come up with a working dust collection solution for miter saws,  I would like to set up something that is portable, but I really want to avoid sawdust clouds!!

   any one try this ?

   http://www.hartvilletool.com/product.php?search_id=49809

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   Shep | Aug 06, 2004 01:10am | #5

     I use a Fein TurboII vac.

     It has an outlet I plug my saw into, and the hose that comes with it fits the dust outlet on my saw ( DeWalt 705 ).

      When I pull the trigger on the saw, the vac automatically comes on and sucks up most of the dust. It probably gets about 80-85% of the dust.

     Its not perfect, but its the best I've come up with so far.

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   Splinky | Aug 06, 2004 05:27am | #6

   The dust collector is crap ... true. I just gave up on it. The closest thing I use on the job site is a scrap sheet of plywood set about a foot behind the saw.

   I love the crown stop though. I have them spun upside down for storage on the saw itself when I don't use them (side note: I have the compound slider and the crown stops attach from the sides not the front like the regular 12" miter saw).

   I also use the old school style chop saw stand and I use the heck out of the materal stops. I set the saw up al the way to the right side of the stand and work the material from the left (see attached), but that's a "me" thing.

   (Gosh...I just love talking tools!)David H. "Splinky" Polston

   Founder of Sawdust, Norfolk, Virginia

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   wrick2003 | Aug 06, 2004 03:05pm | #7

        I have better luck with a contractor bag duct taped to the dust exhaust. You have to attach a shim to the top of the exhaust first to support the bag the first couple of inches, so the bag won't block the exhaust with it's own weight. Then the bag goes right into the dumpster.

        Good Luck     rg

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   OverKnight | Aug 11, 2004 03:47pm | #8

   $24.99 for a made-in-Taiwan piece of plastic with no moving parts?  There should be a class-action lawsuit against prices like this.

   I bought on of those cyclone thingies that go on top of a 5-gal bucket from Rockler a few years ago for $20 - 25.00, and immediately returned it.  Same deal as above; a single piece of molded plastic, which had no means of securely fastening it to the bucket and didn't even have adequate connectors for the not-included hoses.  Where do people get the nerve to think that these are fair prices?

   Sorry, didn't mean to hijack this thread...

   Edited 8/11/2004 12:46 pm ET by OVERKNIGHT

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   jonblakemore | Aug 05, 2004 05:47pm | #3

   Crown stops are great unless you're cutting huge crown.

   I have never used the length stop, but I can't imagine it would really be useful.

    

   Jon Blakemore