Customer Reviews

DELTA 22-678 Dust Hood (For Model DC-380)

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This dust chute is made of thick plastic and bolts right up to the DC-380 planer. 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. 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. 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. Reassemble with inexpensive aluminum pop rivets and you're good to go. Now, the connector fits the planer so well, I don't need tape to hold it.

This is a flimsy piece of over priced junk. I am on my third and final one. The next one will be a custom sheetmetal fabrication. Delta's engineers should be embarassed to take your money for this product. Dust collection on planers is not optional for fine work--remove the chips or the rollers grind them back into your wood! Please understand, it does its job if you never bump it, dont tighten the screws too tight and baby the heck out of 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. I had a 13" dusty leftover from the 1970's in my hands- if only it had been 15"! They have been making this same planer forever. 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? What is wrong with a sheet metal or a stamped steel option. 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. 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. It is also capable of producing a massive amount of chips. There is a 4 7/8 hole because it requires a 5" hose! The engineer's got that part right. 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. Either way it will cost you about the same thing.

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. 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. Not flimsy as some have stated and I've had mine for years and at $28, it is not overpriced IMO

Works as expected, however this is way over priced for a piece of plastic.