Our Little Guide to … making a sturdy dust collector

Fed up with sweeping up sawdust after a woodworking project? Then you need a dust collector! But don’t make one of those flimsy, plastic bucket versions! Go for an open-top steel drum like me! This step-by-step how-to video may be just what you need to put an end to collapsing dust collectors for good.

In total I spent £59.47 buying the components and tools to build my sturdy open-top steel dust collector.

The free items from my spare parts stash included:
• 1m length of PVCu solvent weld white waste pipe (40mm diameter); and
• various connecting tubes from previous dust collector build.

The parts I needed to buy included:
• 25 litre open top storage drum (£28.99 inc P&P);
• 90° PVCu solvent weld bend, white 40mm (78p);
• 135° PVCu solvent weld bend, white 40mm (78p);
• 3 x PVCu solvent weld straight coupling, white 40mm (£2.34);
• HSS step drill bit, 4mm-42mm (£21.59); and
• Draper grinding point set (£4.99).

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