This is an amazing product for vacuuming dry stuff. It separates cyclonically and collects in the bucket. I just finished cutting sheet material from plywood. 8 sheets of plywood cut to make 30 drawers, on poplar runners and 3/4” carcas. Drawers are 4””-8” and cabinet is 6’x7’. From the cutting to size all of all of the 240 parts going into this project, I collected one 5 gallon bucket of sawdust to the top, and maybe a 5% filled dust bag in the shop vac. This is a huge money saver on dust bags for dry product waste. Read more
The Dust Deputy is great. I bought it about 2 weeks ago and so far it works perfectly. For tools that create lots of sawdust like a table saw or wood planer, this is a great setup to use. After running the planer for about 30 minutes, the bucket filled up. I can’t imagine replacing the shop vac bag every 30 minutes. Of course you can use a vacuum filter and just keep emptying the vacuum drum, but then your filter will be clogged in no time. I actually waited too long to empty the dust deputy bucket the first time and the excess sawdust fell into the shop vac drum. So I just emptied the bucket, cleaned the vac drum, and made sure the filter was still clean. It’s probably a good idea to empty the bucket when it’s about half or 2/3 full. The deputy allows you to run the vacuum at optimal performance while not having to change a bag or a filter. At some point you’ll still need to change the filter because it will catch small particles over time, but I imagine that it will be a while before I need to do that. Installation was pretty easy. My shop vac drum is metal, but drilling 2 holes into the side wall was very easy. I highly recommend this product if you do a fair amount of woodworking. Although, I feel that it is priced too high. I think a more reasonable price range would be $70-75. Overall, it is a great investment. Read more
This worked well for me when grinding down a concrete floor. It collected a lot of the fine dust. The wheel bracket attachment method to the collection canister is poor. The kit comes with some double side sticky tape to secure the wheel brackets. The drawing showed a flat land area on the wheel bracket that wasn't there in my kit. This didn't look very secure and was going to be trouble in the future. The instructions also suggested attaching the wheel brackets with 1/4 inch nuts and bolts which were not supplied. The bolt holes were already there on the wheel brackets. I ended up drilling the canister and securing the wheel brackets with 1/4 x 1/2 inch nuts and bolts and plain washers. There are 3 bolts holes per wheel bracket. Now the wheels won't fall off. As others have mentioned, the hoses tend to pull off but can be secured with user supplied hose clamps. I didn't do this as I wasn't moving my setup around much and I needed to flush out the hose at the end of each concrete grinding session. Read more
easy to assemble, works well Read more
I'm a huge DIY type of guy and when I saw the price on most of these systems, I was absolutely not going to do it. Instead, I bought a couple of buckets and some plumbing parts and try to make my own following YouTube advice that they seem to have good success with. At the end of the day, I wasted all that time effort and money and I should've just bought this product. Absolutely works flawlessly and helps keep my shop vac (originally) and now dust collector as clean as a whistle. Could not be happier and would absolutely recommend to everyone. I love the design and the increased suction power because it keeps my filters clean. The product seems to be made durably. If I had one knock is that the maneuverability isn't great if you're attaching it to a shop vac but if you're using it with a dust collector, you will absolutely have no issues Read more
Pros: I've used this in several different ways and it works perfectly: In the garage for general cleanup of bugs, leaves, dirt, and sand. Directly connected to my sanders, table saw and jigsaw for sawdust/chips. In the fireplace to pickup ashes. My wife used it to clean out a dual charcoal/gas grill when I wasn't looking, and other than having to clean the greasy residue out of the cyclone and bucket it still worked perfectly. Heck, I even used it on my dog and it's crate to pickup a ton of hair. The only thing I haven't tried yet is drywall dust, but if it can separate ashes, I think it can handle it. It comes with 2 5-gallon buckets, a length of heavy duty hose (mine was grey), right angle adapter, a small roll of copper tape, caster wheels and hardware to attach to the bottom of one of the buckets (you will need to drill the mounting holes yourself). It also came with a block of foam and some hardware to secure one of the buckets to the side of your vacuum (which I didn't use). The lid doesn't fit on tightly like a normal bucket lid which makes it a breeze to empty, but when you turn the vacuum on it seals up nicely. The woodwhisperer did a very nice shoot out of cyclone separators and the Dust Deputy came out on top. [...] Cons: The top where the cyclone connects to the lid does flex, but in my case it is the weight of the hose hanging down that is putting pressure on it. I could see this eventually leading to failure if not addressed. This could probably be negated if I built a mobile shop vacuum station as seen in ShopNotes Magazine Issue #109 to give support. No surprise here, but the cyclone will build up a static charge sometimes. The copper tape it comes with is enough to put around the connections and on the cyclone itself. You'll hear the static when you pull one bucket out of the other to dump it's contents. Summary: I've had the Dust Deputy almost 6 months now and I have yet to replace the bag in my shopvac. I use the shopvac more now than I ever did because I'm not worried about changing bags out. In fact, in instances where I would normally sweep, I find myself just using the vac instead. There just isn't enough collected in the bag to justify replacing it. It basically paid for itself. I don't normally rate many things with 5 stars, but I can't recommend this one highly enough. Read more
