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Fits the 22-675 (DC-380) planer perfectly and provides great chip pick-up and dust collection. Needs a 5 inch coupler (or a length of duct tape) to marry to a 5 to 4 inch reducer though.
easy to install. Not flimsy as some have stated and I've had mine for years and at $28, it is not overpriced IMO Five inch opening does not allow connection to 4 inch hose, but I have a complete chip removal system, so 5 inch hose was planned for this connection.
I am on my third and final one. It is also capable of producing a massive amount of chips. I was told by the rep the old iron hoods were too expensive to manufacture and I agree, but why swing this far towards junk. There is a 4 7/8 hole because it requires a 5" hose. Dust collection on planers is not optional for fine work--remove the chips or the rollers grind them back into your wood. Seriously this is a $1200-$1400 220v cast iron machine that sets up like a dream and planes beautifuly, but the chip hood hangs over the outfeed table in a spot where it is easily bumped, and bumping this plastic junk means breaking it. God luck with that in an industrial setting.The original dust hood for old Rockwell 13 and 15 inch planers was cast iron-total overkill. Believe me chip extraction is much better if you step down to 4" on the collector side because this planer can quickly and easily choke a 4" hose when planing pine, maple or poplar close to the 15" width.
Buy 10' of 5" hose and a smooth metal 5 to 4 reducer-put the reducer on the collector side of the hose-you will be impressed at how well a 2hp dust system can keep up.In short either buy one of these, take it to a sheet metal shop as a perfectly shaped templet and get a real one made, or buy six of them so you can change them out as they crumble. Delta's engineers should be embarassed to take your money for this product. This is a flimsy piece of over priced junk. Please understand, it does its job if you never bump it, dont tighten the screws too tight and baby the heck out of it. I had a 13" dusty leftover from the 1970's in my hands- if only it had been 15".
The engineer's got that part right. I have a plastic hood on my portable dewalt planer for jobsites that has lasted for years, but it is a top mount, not hanging off the back in the breeze.The DC 380 is a little buffalo of a planer-very capable and I love it. The next one will be a custom sheetmetal fabrication. They have been making this same planer forever. Either way it will cost you about the same thing.
What is wrong with a sheet metal or a stamped steel option.
Works as expected, however this is way over priced for a piece of plastic.
Reassemble with inexpensive aluminum pop rivets and you're good to go. Some of the reviewers (under the DC-380 planer section) mention the difficulty they've had connecting a 4" dust hose to the 4 and 7/8 inch connector. This dust chute is made of thick plastic and bolts right up to the DC-380 planer. My solution was to buy a standard metal reducer at the hardware store (5" female to 4" female) and drill out the rivets that hold it together. Now, the connector fits the planer so well, I don't need tape to hold it. I squeezed the reducer down until the big end fit on the Delta dust chute and the small end fit INSIDE a 4" dust hose.
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