OF 1400 dust/chip collection video/is this about right?

[Stephen B]

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OF1400 Dust and Chip Collection.

[size=14pt]This afternoon [AESST], I was routing a rebate underneath  an IKEA laminex bench top. The good one, made in Germany. I decided to video some of the action; you never know when Shane will announce a video competition!

I have always acknowledged that the dust and chip collection on this router is pretty good, but have accepted that some will miss extraction.

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Is this amount of dust and chip material escaping extraction normal for this situation? If not how could it improve?
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Technical details - bearing rebate bit, power setting 3 1/2, CT22 with full extraction, 27mm hose, three passes to 22mm [most of video 2nd pass] and chip deflector and dust extraction port fitted.

Set to large screen to get best viewing experience.



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Recorded and Edited on IPad. Editing with IMovie.

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If you listen carefully, at the end you will hear the brake in action, a feature NAINA.

 

[Stone Message]

That seems pretty reasonable for the OF 1400 - it is a whole lot better than any of my old non Festool machines.

Peter

 

[rvieceli]

That seems about right.

But you might try rotating the edge of the chip catcher closer to the stock at the front. the bit rotates clockwise and should tend to throw more chips as it leaves the work piece at the front of your travel direction. If you look at about 12 seconds in, there seems to be a bigger gap and that where a lot of debris is coming from.

 

[RobNJ]

I think the switch to the 36mm hose has the biggest effect on dust collection.  My first go with the OF1400 was cutting dadoes about 20mm deep in a few passes.  I was pretty disappointed when i saw a ton of chips and dust stuck in the dado.  When I switched to the bigger hose, it was like night and day.  I feel like Festool should definitely recommend the larger hose with the bigger routers.

 

[Tinker]

I use the 36mm hose with a short (15") section of 27mm hose between the 1400 and the 36mm hose.  The volumn of air is the same but the velocity is greater at the small end of the hose.  I don't think the 27 hose would handle as many of the chips and dust as the 36 mm hose if using the total length, but with the short length of 27 at tool end and progressing within a short distance into the 36mm, it seems to handle fine.  I never took any pics of the dust coming off, my camera won't handle that type of pic.  I do get some dust no matter what i do.  But not even close to what I used to get with PC's, DW and Milwaukee routers. 

When using the 1400 in my CMS, the 27(?)mm hose coming off the router does clog once in a while if i am taking a deep cut and pushing too fast.  The larger hose coming off the fence never has clogged. I am using a Dust Rite (from Rockler) type cyclone which is nothing more the a 10gal can with a couple of outlets/inlets in opposite sides of the top.  I have not experimented with using a length of 36 mm hose from router to DC.  I am happy with the way the setup works, so see no object in picking up a length of 36 hose just for an experiment.  I am not sure that a double length of 36mm hose would work anyhow.  It is a lot of volumn for the CT 33 to handle satisfactorily.  I am pretty sure Festoy has worked out the hose setup long ago.  I do feel that the way i have worked out to use hand held routing is better as I described in first paragraph above.
Tinker

 

[Stephen B]

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Thank you for your responses.

Reassuring, but will in future look at angle of chip deflector. Can't justify larger hose at this point, but will investigate that further with future purchases.