Alright I have search this site from top to bottom and I will say that this site is incredibly useful. Our company recently got a new Shop Sabre 4896 router table with the 4hp HSD spindle and the 25hp vacuum table. before anyone slams this choice we looked at virtually every CNC router table on the market before making this choice. So far REALLY impressed with the tables construction. We talked to several shops in the area on what they had the pros/cons on their machines and found out a friend of ours has the larger/older model Shop Sabre so we had extensive conversations with him about the ins and outs of the table, and then decided.
We are still waiting for the electrician to come wire it up, but so far we are impressed with the table itself.
because I know I will be asked, we will be cutting 1/4" to 3/4" birch plywood, MDF ultra-lite, gatorboard, Sintra, and possibly some thin aluminum but we are still debating the aluminum.
Ok now with the questions.
1. Our HSD came with ER25 collets... anyone know if I can get a 3/4" collet for this? all I seem to be able to find is up to 5/8". And that's fine if it doesn't go that big... we just really wanted the new Amana surfacing bit.
2. I have read all (and I mean all) of the dust collection threads on this website as well as others. We already have a killer cyclone dust collection system installed. We have the 2.5HP TEMPEST "S" Series Cyclone Dust Collector with 14" Aluminum Impeller from penn state industries. We ordered one with the knowledge that we would be getting a CNC router. The problem is that our cyclone is already ported to our table saw, our chop saw and 3 floor sweeps, before anyone asks its all grounded and there are blast gates on every port. We still need to port it to the CNC but that will be pretty simple. We're doing an over swing arm to 2" flex into a dust boot that I designed (stole for several other designs I found/saw). Not for the question/comment, we were thinking of adding a compressed air port to the dust foot to us the ability to shoot a steady steam in the bit area when someone opens one of the other blast gates. I don't think we need to do that but we also don't want to loose any cfms on the vacuum. Any thoughts?
3. On those same lines, we thought about instead of a blast from the air compressor, using an air blower so it was a steady stream blowing the dust into the dust collection port. Again any thoughts?
Thanks for all the help
R