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Circular Saw with Dust Port? - C Nelson - 02-01-2016
I'm in the market for a circular saw that has a dust collection port that will enable me to connect it to my shop vac. I would appreciate any advice on this matter. I don't want to build a box around the saw. I'd prefer a cordless if there is such a thing.
Thanks
Re: Circular Saw with Dust Port? - cputnam - 02-01-2016
At the high end, there are the Festool saws.
Re: Circular Saw with Dust Port? - stav - 02-01-2016
The Dewalt and Makita track saws have a dust ports. Pretty sure one of these comes in cordless.
Re: Circular Saw with Dust Port? - jteneyck - 02-01-2016
Both Festool and Dewalt make a cordless tracksaw with dust port. I don't know if anyone makes a plain circular saw with dust collection, corded or cordless, however. Grizzly's corded tracksaw has a dust port and is less than $200, far below the price of the others.
John
Re: Circular Saw with Dust Port? - woodhead - 02-01-2016
PC saws used to have a dust port...347 or 743 models I think
Al
Re: Circular Saw with Dust Port? - wjt - 02-01-2016
I used an inexpensive adapter from Bosch (P.N. CSDChute) for a 40 year old Craftsman circular saw. It did require a little shape changing with a heat gun but nothing major. Depending on your budget this may be an option.
It is designed to fit a Bosch model CS10.
Very little dust escapes.
Bill
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Re: Circular Saw with Dust Port? - AdamR - 02-01-2016
Check EurekaZone.
http://www.eurekazone.com/default.asp
Re: Circular Saw with Dust Port? - Worthing - 02-01-2016
I have a Bosch CS10 and bought the shop vac adapter from Bosch. Works reasonably well but it's still a circular saw and thus there is some dust.
Re: Circular Saw with Dust Port? - C Nelson - 03-21-2016
I took the advice from this forum and bought a DeWalt DWS520 Track Saw. I am very happy with its performance save one issue.
One of the features that make me buy it was the vacuum port. I planned to attach my wet-dry vacuum to it to vacuum up the saw dust.
The problem is that the port faces down. Since I use the saw mostly to cut 45 degree bevels the port is essentially useless as even a smaller diameter hose won't fit between the vacuum port and the work piece.
I am curious as to whether anyone has a workaround for this problem.
Thank you
Re: Circular Saw with Dust Port? - Wild Turkey - 03-21-2016
C Nelson said:
The problem is that the port faces down. Since I use the saw mostly to cut 45 degree bevels the port is essentially useless as even a smaller diameter hose won't fit between the vacuum port and the work piece.
can't you rotate the dust port? The pix on ereplacments.com shows it to be a round flange.
HTH
