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1. 
   nazard | Nov 18, 2008 07:55pm | #1

   Ron,

   A great deal of the sawdust will settle in the cabinet.  Just vacuum it out until you get set up with dust collection.  Don't let the saw fill up with sawdust: not good for business.

   -Jerry

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   SARGEgrinder47 | Nov 18, 2008 11:02pm | #2

   Ditto Nazard... You would need to vacuum inside through the inspection door after a days use and use the tip of a nozzle to get at the open threads and teeth on the gears. Not really a big deal as long as your not lazy. :>)

   Sarge..

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   Lataxe | Nov 19, 2008 01:33am | #3

   Ron,

   What will you do about the dust that gets into the air you breathe?

   Along with the visible stuff, a TS creates quite an amount of much finer dust that may damage your lungs or other bodily functionaries, if you breathe it in day after day. The point of extracting dust from dust-making machines or processes isn't just to keep the mess down but also to protect yourself from the various ill-effects of the stuff.

   Perhaps you require evidence? Well, if you want some that's personal, just try imbibing a bit of iroko or meranti dust. I can tell you from personal experience that it takes very little of either to bring about various lurgies of the body - sneezes being the mild form and nasty rashes with a feeling of disability being rather worse effects.

   As to MDF.........

   Lataxe, a harbinger of doom.

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   BG | Nov 19, 2008 01:37pm | #4

   RonT,

   Not to take away from what others have said, but, the cabinet saw, in general, is a step up in dust collection over the contractor saw. The cabinet design helps contain wood chips. The cabinet design works more efficiently with a DC.

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   forestgirl | Nov 20, 2008 04:07am | #5

   Ditto to what Lataxe said, Times Ten.  There's plenty of sawdust, visible and otherwise, that will spin off the blade right toward you and your lungs.  At the very least, wear a dust mask, well past the point when you stop cutting.  But truly, you need dust collection!!  As I'm fond of saying "Think oxygen bottle."

   forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)