Hi all, Just received a new Adventure Edition and I'm trying my first cuts. I'm experiencing some dust collection problems and I wonder if anyone has experience that may help. I have a small shop vac connected directly to the vacuum port. I'm doing 3d cuts over the whole cut area and producing a lot of dust. I'm noticing that after a few minutes of cutting, my shop vac sounds strained and it no longer appears to be picking up dust from the dust shoe. When I disconnect the shop vac from the hose port, the sound returns to normal and the vacuum host inside the Handibot slacks a bit. I still have suction from the shop vac and am able to manually clean up dust for the duration of the job.
The first time this happened, when I examined the shoe afterward, several of the bristles in the shoe were bent toward the hose port, and there was a mass of dust clogging the port. I bent the bristles back before running more jobs and reset the bit lower in the router so that the bristles bend less during a cut. Since then I'm still experience the loss of suction (and resorting to removing the shop vac and move it around manually), but I haven't found more material clogging the host at the end of my job. Any thoughts about what might be happening? Could I still be sucking bristles into the hose port? Thanks!
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/28/2016 06:24PM by _Kyle.