I just finished most of the work on this blade guard/dust shroud for my MiniMax CU310. I am not completely finished with it but I wanted to post this since there was some recent discussion about on here and I wanted to share what I have learned to date. I did a search and could not find the relevant thread so sorry if I missed something obvious. If there is interest I can go into detail on some of this but here is what I have learned to date,
1. Search youtube, there are some good threads and my inspiration was a guy who made one for a table saw.
2. I found some telescoping legs on Ebay that are for a telescope, they work very well, cost about $25 shipped.
3. Plexiglass is expensive. I never found a cheap source, though I did see some on Facebook marketplace after I bought it.
4. Plexiglass does not tap well, I wound up using a 10/24 size that works okay.
5. Plexiglass solvent/glue works good, not cheap though.
6. I made mine about 6" wide, would make it 5" or maybe 4 1/2" if I were doing it again.
7. The brush is a garage floor sweep, works good, you can buy it in lengths, make sure you calculate what you need very carefully.
8. I spent a lot of time figuring out how to attach the guard to the telescoping overhead "rod". It was time well spent as it works well.
9. I have a 5 hp clearvue dust collector with two 4" drops, it works well enough that I dont have to have the brush hard against the wood to collect the dust.
Let me know if you have any questions, comments welcome.