Lost $150 on a dust collection mistake I should have seen coming

I bought one of those cheap plastic blast gates off Amazon last month thinking I was saving money. Three of them cracked within two weeks from the vibration and one jammed open on my main line. Wish I had just spent the extra on metal gates from the start. Anyone else have bad luck with the plastic ones?

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palmer.zara14d ago

Were these the white plastic ones with the little handle on top? I've seen those crack just from sitting in a toolbox. Did you have yours on a table saw or something with a lot of shaking going on?

hannaht2914d ago

Yeah @palmer.zara, that's rough when good tools break on you like that.