Pros & Cons
Pros
It fits a standard metal trashcan from lowes with no gasket required. Most people have an old metal trash can you can sit this lid on.
Use a plastic wheeled plant caddy underneath and used two small bungee cords to hold unit to the caddy. Use an bungee cord to hold it in place. I also have a rubber mallet that i sit on top to keep it from tipping over.
This accomplishes that. Works perfect in the simplest way. Works like a charm.
It works well for separating planer chips and keeps from filling up your dust collector bags with chips. I use it on my table saw and miter saw as well as when i am vacuuming sawdust off my workbench. It keeps pretty much all of the sawdust out of my ... Read More
Planer shavings get caught on the grill, and quickly clog the dust hose. This is an excellent product if you are looking for a cheaper solution to a dust collection system. It works very well with my 2 1/2 dust collector system. The only downside is t... Read More
Cons
The dust fills the dc bag more than the trash can! Suction is too powerful for the typical homedepot 5 gallon bucket. When the majority of the dust is just be sent to the dust collector, it defeats the purpose of a 2 stage system. It is also likely to... Read More
Highlights
Quality
This product cant be beat for the price as long as everything is set up properly
If youre too cheap to buy a higher quality unit you probably have something around the garage to make a gasket and it will work great
Get a metal 30 gallon trash can with the correct diameter 12 inch either through amazon or at your local hardware store
Packaging/appearance
Turned on my 15 gallon craftsman shop vac and heard a loud bang of something that was evidently stuck in my hose and slammed in... Read More
This separator lid is definitely not ready to use right out of the box
Splice 4 at amazon one each into each 4 inch hose hole on the w1049
All of this will cost an additional 1530 depending on your spare parts bin excluding the metal trash can and about 15 minutes t... Read More
Competitiveness
Fits my ridgid wd0626 shop vac hoses
I use this on a 5 gallon plastic bucket with a harbor freight 1hp dust collector
Overview
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- This product had a total of 672 reviews as of our last analysis date on Mar 3 2023.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I dont use it with my shopvac because high pressurelow air flow isnt the best for dust collection
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
All that ends up in the dust collector bag is fine sawdust
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Had to mod it to work with my rigid vac does collect dust from chop saw
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
These fit 31 gallon metal trash cans with a 20
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
These don’t need a gasket to seal
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Go online and see how its been hacked to make it work better i didnt have to go through all the steps because my hose fit perfectly but as ive learned not all of this stuff is the same sizes different brands have slightly different diameters both i
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I would have bought something larger this turned out to be to small
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Im using a small harbor freight 2