The issue i've had with dust collection over the years is the dust hoods running into clamps and breaking or the "unknown" of not being able to see where your bit is cutting because it is hidden under the brushes.
I don't use dust collection as much because i like to see what's happening before catastrophe. I do use breathing protection instead..
The problem i see is that by the time your average dust collector reaches the router bit it's suction has been deminished over the length of hose.
I have been thinking about some type of U shaped dust hood where you could see your bit cutting, and mounted somewhere on the carriage would be some type of small powerful vacumn that would act as a strong suction primer to make up for the loss of vacumn and maybe some type of air sprayer from the front that would push the dust to the back of the dust shoe that is open in front and act as a "air wall".
Knowing almost nothing about vacumn and suction, air pressure, ect
am I just way off base here?
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