Review on Enhance Precision & Visibility: Rousseau 5000-L Lighted Dust Solution for Miter Saws by Chuck Derrick

This gets 2 stars because it's an improvement over zero dust collection, but it ends up being too problematic in a number of ways The first major drawback is that the cloth surrounding the opening of the dust collector is sucked into the opening, completely closing the opening and stopping the suction. I have a 1hp dust collector that sucks harder than a regular vacuum, but other than that it's the weakest dust collection option next to a shop vacuum, so I don't throw gale force winds at it. I tried to pull the fabric along the edge of the hole. back around the hole and then push against the plastic trash can with a round bracket, but the suction only caused the opening to tilt to one side and suck another substance blocking it, taking the suction to a very inefficient level to reduce. The second disadvantage is that the ends of the fabric are too loose in many places. Mine pulls out like a rigid can, but there's still a lot of sagging (especially if you have a 4" hose attached to the dust vent, which causes the vent to sag and warp the shape of the hood panel). The dust port, even with the weight of the hose, sags uncomfortably far below the saw rather than directly behind it or directly below, so the extraction is a lot more indirect than it should be, even if I create a custom wall mount behind it. In order to position the dust opening in the desired position, the fabric still has an ever-present problem of deflection. All those sagging indentations are suction-proof and end up collecting a lot of dust. After each use, you can try to pull and tap on it, drive around at random to try and knock off some dust toward the port, but you end up piling up a lot of dust under the port in an area that's very heavy, the dust shoveling back to the port, I'd have to regularly vacuum the uh heaps of dust under and behind the saw. I feel like I'm doing something almost equivalent right now. The third downside is that it's not big enough for my 12 inch saw. No matter how narrow I try to attach the edges to add height (causing the fabric to really sag a lot more if it's not taut), the saw sticks the top by a few inches when it's upright. So I had to add dodges at the beginning and end of each cut, down and forward or back and up to avoid hitting the hood. If I move the shroud further back behind the saw, a lot of dust will settle on the sides, aggravated by the fact that the extraction is now further back and therefore less efficient. The fourth disadvantage: the semicircular design does not provide enough vertical clearance at the same time, but adds a lot of horizontal space, which greatly reduces suction concentration. A fifth mistake, smaller but just plain stupid, is that the headlight fork is only 6 inches long. In the end, despite several workaround attempts to solve these problems (which I won't list because they didn't work well enough), it's just nowhere near a working solution for dealing with my miter sawdust. After watching a few tutorials on Youtube I'm planning to make a custom sized (rigid) plywood box with a dust hole in the back. It only takes a few hours, costs a fraction of this product, and solves every design problem I've had. It will be much smaller and bulkier. I only work in my shop so I don't need anything to take to work, but if I did I don't think it would be that hard to make a collapsible plywood box with hinges and clasps.