Originally Posted by
Patrick Walsh
How about with dust extraction do you still have clog problems.
One of the things the Hammer rep os claiming is that although the minimax machine has two dust ports thus not having a mess of hoses the ports are smaller and like to clog.
Anyone having trouble that is running a Minimax machine with clogging. How is the dust collection overall.
Dust collection is one of my biggest motivators for going with a modern machine vrs a vintage cast iron beast. I hear the Hammer is great in this department. Good enough is good enough but there is nothing like a machine that collects dust well.
I've never, ever had a clog at the machine, at least with my current cyclone system. My original cyclone was smaller and didn't have the "opmph" to move the chips fast enough when working a wide board. But that was many years ago...never a clog since.
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