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   forestgirl | Jul 27, 2009 09:46pm | #1

   Jim, to get you started, click on Advanced Search (over to your left, above the list of posts), then enter "dust collection" "miter saw", narrow it down to 6 months or a year, and click Search.  You'll get at least 2 threads (several posts).

   forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-) 
   
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   andyfew322 | Jul 29, 2009 05:08am | #2

   One thing I know is to build a trapezoid behind it (i.e. flat back, slanted sides) with the hose coming in the bottom, this can do an ok job with collection, but what ever you do I also suggest running one hose directly to the machine to get the majority of the dust.

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   shadyjim | Jul 29, 2009 03:27pm | #3

   Thanks.  That sounds like an illustration I saw in one of the woodworking magazines and I've been trying to find it again.

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   shadyjim | Aug 25, 2009 12:54am | #4

   Well, I'm replying to my own message just to say I found what I was looking for.  Often FWW is my source for a lot of these things but, in this case, it turned out to be Woodsmith.  Their August/September 2006 issue (#166).  It was submitted by a reader and looks pretty easy to build and to adapt to whatever dust collection system you might have.

    

   Thanks for looking....

   Jim

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   Samm90 | Sep 24, 2009 10:04am | #5

   I tried different collection and built this one. It works fairly well, but some heavy dust still escape when stock is far from the inlet. I usually cut the front of stock first to create a channel for the saw dust to enter the inlet, then pull the saw handle to finish the cut. With the dust collection there, the saw only cut square, no miter.

   Q