Pleased as punch to have found this site. The silicone dust port works great, but more importantly, I'm all about folks designing, innovating and experimenting on their own. It doesn't get much better than that. Inspire Woodcraft is... inspirational!

You'll need to hook up a good shop vac to these parts, but once you do, you're going to see a dramatic improvement to your miter saw dust collection!

The zero clearance insert and dust collection fitting weren’t specifically for my older DW706 mighter saw, but with a few adjustments they seem to work well! Much less dust in the air!

Thanks!

I had tried multiple attempts at building various hoods to reduce the dust generated from my Dewalt 716 miter saw. Saw a video demonstrating this silicone dust boot on Pinterest. I am extremely pleased/delighted with the performance of this boot! Although not eliminating 100% of the dust generated, (don’t know know of any miter saw out there that does, perhaps a $1,600 Festool might come close) I say this boot it captures 90% plus! Great product, simple to install.

Better dust collection! 🥳

A simple but effective solution.

I recently purchased the saw that I’ve been eyeing for a couple of years, the DWS16XPS. It actually showed up perfectly calibrated, which is just weird. Anyway, the dust collection was virtually nonexistent with a shop vac attached. There’s nothing wrong with the original setup, it’s designed so you can use all of the saw’s miter and bevel capabilities. I ordered the dust boot first thinking I’d just do my own throat plate, then found this on YouTube. It looked too annoying to try and replicate , so I ordered one too. Run conjunction I think it’s literally as good as you can get for dust collection. I just have the stock plate in my truck for the rare bevel cuts, and you can just fold the boot back on itself for tighter angled cuts 👍🏼

Would highly recommend

As expected, easy, clear, understandable plans. Inspiration to build the jig :)

box joint plan

Upgraded Dust Collection Boot for DeWALT DW716 & DWS716 Miter Saws

I purchased this for the Dewalt DW706 hoping it would at least make some improvement to the dust situation. It fit the saw like a glove, using some very strong magnets, and I was blown away by its performance. I now have just the slightest amount of dust on the saw body after cutting up multiple lengths of 4x4, and none of the clouds of dust floating around the shop I had before.
I just don't understand why Dewalt don't purchase the rights to your design and retrofit the product to all their saws.

The only minor issue that I had was that the square outboard corners on the insert had to be filed a bit to fit the DW 706 base that it fits into. No big deal. I attached a photo. I am very happy with the dust pickup with all retrofit items attached.

Traditionally a handle woodworker. Watching your videos with the table saw I am re-introducing a lot of my power tools along with the handles of the videos and safety tips.

I’m a hand worker but with all of the power tools that one could ( or should ever) have. After watching you at the table saw it has sparked my thoughts of doing both hand and power. Love the videos and learn from them all. Great job.