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   chabber | Aug 13, 2007 06:57am | #1

   I have the 3 1/4 hp model and I believe the dust extraction is the same setup. It seems to work decent. Kind of a pain getting the hose in and out of the base since you have to screw it in. I bought mine at Woodcraft, but they haven't had any of the 2 1/4 hp in stock for quite some time.

   All in all, I really like my triton router.

   Josh

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   vincentedwards | Aug 13, 2007 06:04pm | #2

   I also have the 3.5 HP triton... the dust collection is ok. In a router table, the built in collection hooked up to a shop vac doesn't capture all the dust. I think an enclosed cabinet and a fence w/ a dust collection port is about the only way to do this.

   Freehand, hooked up to a shop vac, the dust collection was around 80% or so.

   If you REALLY want the best dust collection, look at the festool 1400 eq.
   When I get enough $ this will be my freehand router of choice. FWW says that it
   has the best dust collection of any router in its class. It has a special rotating dust hood that attatches for doing edge cuts, to help catch the dust that would normally shoot off into the room. Looks like a very clever solution to this problem.
   The only drawback is the $405 price tag.

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   woodenhead | Aug 15, 2007 05:28am | #3

   Thanks for the advice, i guess collecting 80% is a lot better than 0%. I was thinking about the F/ tool but the $ is hard to cough up. Its not only the $ but the fact if F/tool was made in the U.S.A. the price would be 1/3 less( that is just a guess). If Toyota were still shipping cars from Japan the $ would be higher. Where are our tool makers, sitting on their hands,they will become the American car company of the 1970. Don't get wrong the Germans are doing a great Job, i want us to do better.And now the down under crowd is one step ahead,say its not so.

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   EdHarrow | Aug 15, 2007 06:16am | #4

   I have the 2.25, but I've not used it much so take my comments with that in mind. 

   Mine is mounted in a Benchdog extension on my TS.  The built-in dc port on the router doesn't 'mesh' well with the underneath webbing on the wing.  Perhaps if I manage to get the proprietery Triton connector it will do better, but I tried using a generic tapered adapter from Fein, I think.  It, pretty much, made raising the router up to change bits impossible, or the adapter would fall out.

   Now I just use the fence-mounted dust-collector port.  It does fine for most work.