Dave Ronyak
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Ed,
Don't throw them away yet. You'll likely get some additional tools with differently sized dust collection ports and then wish you still had that assortment to try.
I'm glad to hear that you have had considerable success. When using my router table which has a hollow JoinTech aluminum fence with a 1 1/2" DC fitting at one end, and a router enclosure below the table with a 4" DC fitting on the bottom, I commonly hook up the vacuum to both DC fittings using two hoses and a Festool Y-connector at the vacuum machine.
It works decently except when cutting dovetail tail pieces (sides of drawers). I haven't come up with an ideal collector set up for that yet. The best I have rigged up so far is to clamp a 3" x 12" floor sweep type nozzle to the table top. That captures the majority of the debris.
Dave R.
Don't throw them away yet. You'll likely get some additional tools with differently sized dust collection ports and then wish you still had that assortment to try.
I'm glad to hear that you have had considerable success. When using my router table which has a hollow JoinTech aluminum fence with a 1 1/2" DC fitting at one end, and a router enclosure below the table with a 4" DC fitting on the bottom, I commonly hook up the vacuum to both DC fittings using two hoses and a Festool Y-connector at the vacuum machine.
It works decently except when cutting dovetail tail pieces (sides of drawers). I haven't come up with an ideal collector set up for that yet. The best I have rigged up so far is to clamp a 3" x 12" floor sweep type nozzle to the table top. That captures the majority of the debris.
Dave R.
