I am in the process of assembling a new Grizzly G0586 jointer ("Thanks, Microsoft..."). I have seen a few threads regarding the open top of the dust chute on the G0490 / DJ20 type of jointers, so, when nobody was watching, I peeked up the the chute of the '586 . Slightly different situation, but the chute is open in a few places. This can't be good for the dust collection efficiency.
It looks to me like one of two things happened here:
1) A bone-headed design tradeoff was made to reduce manufacturing costs, at the obvious expense of proper dust collection.
2) Or, there is some technical reason why the chute has these openings, and I'm just not seeing it.
So, my question is, has anybody closed up the dust chute on a G0586, to make it look the way it should have been made in the first place, and if so, did this change result in a noticeble increase in dust-collection efficiency?
Carl