The Dustopper PRO, Low-Profile Dust Separator for Shop Wet/Dry Vacuums. Includes High-Flow 90 Degree Sweep Elbows and Connection Hose. Fits Standard 5 Gallon Buckets, Made in USA

Great product. Easy to assemble and use. Really helps reduce plaster dust from clogging the filter. When cleaning up dust and other debris from our recent renovation this was a game changer. It significantly reduced the wear and tear on the shop vac's filter and still captured all the debris.

Why did you pick this product vs others?: Just received this this morning. Installed the gasket with no problems, put everything together and it works just fine. Dunno why the manufacturer doesn't/won't install the gasket and makes the consumer do it. Only thing I can think of is that the gasket may work itself loose in transit and they had too many trouble calls and returns. Not a big deal, it probably took me all of two minutes to install it.This works as advertised. I'm demo'ing/cleaning up/vacuuming as I go for a bathroom and my 6.5 HP Ridgid Shop Vac only had fine dust in the bottom and no other debris.I bought this to reduce the frequency of have to clean or change the Shop Vac filter. It was getting to be a real pain. I was having to clean the filter way too often. So far, it looks like this Dustopper is going to help in that regard.Yes, I had an Ace hardware 5 gallon bucket collapse a little bit, but not enough for it to be a problem. If the bucket is collapsing, check your pickup hose for a partial or full blockage. If the hose is clear, I doubt that a bucket will collapse, unless you completely block the hose end/opening.

Wow, this simple unit works amazingly. When I first received it I thought it was junk. I was using a Shop vacuum for my dust collection. It only works for short time until it gets full. Also the filter gets clogged very quickly and I had to be constantly cleaning it. I started to look into dust collectors but I was not ready to spend several hundred dollars for my small work shop. 2 car garage. By a chance I came across this unit on Anazon and decided to give it a try. Wow, it is truly amazing. Literally, no saw dust goes into the vacuum. It all goes into the 5 gallon container. Much easier to just empty it out instead of the vacuum container and filter. I attached pictures of my first use of it.

This works great on both dust and water separation. My gasket is already falling out, the adhesive is failing and the hose fittings are just interference type and have no positive lock. When assembled to a bucket and hose it’s top heavy and wants to fall over. It really needs to be secured to a weighted base. You can get around these things and the performance is good.

This dust (water, dirt, etc.) collector does exactly what it says, making it worth every dollar. I use the product for sanding drywall, which is does a fantastic job collecting.The collector easily fits on 5 gallon buckets (sold separately) and contains enough hose to connect your shop vac to the collector and collection bucket.The product is straight-forward to use and light to move around.Using this product has one inconvenience - you'll need to move your shop vac and the collection bucket as you work.However, the hassle is worth it due to its effectiveness.

Just wanted a basic, smaller dust collector, this unit seemed to fit the bill. Set it up with my existing wall mount Shop Vac 4.5 Peak HP. had plenty of wood chips, shaving and dust to give it a good try. found it only stopped about 50% of the dust and chips. So, I rechecked the manufacture requirements, 2 possible causes for poor performance: Duststopper says vacuum should be at least a 5HP. (running or peak, they don't say) and beware of using a long hose (they don't spell out what's long). After searching I Ordered a Vacmaster Pro "BEAST" 5.5 peak HP. 5 Gal. ($84.89, a smaller unit to fit in the space available). I was amazed how powerful the unit is and set it with the Duststopper (yes, the Duststopper hose and elbows fit the Vacmaster), gave it a good test. Well, the Beast solved the problem, entirely. Almost nothing in the vacuum and all the dust and chips in the Duststopper bucket (as advertised) and I still used a 30' hose. I am well pleased! Now, not only do I have a compact and effective dust collection system, but I have a new, very powerful mobile garage vacuum that works great (very reasonable priced, I highly recommend The Beast if you need a vac). The only issue with the Duststopper is the darn gasket keeps falling out of the groove when I remove it from the bucket, not a biggie, just an irritant. But the Duststopper unit works great!

This is pretty amazing, but for two caveats:1) Don't suck up bits of trash - a square of paper towel or a plastic bag will get caught in the vortex and require disassembly and extraction.2) Don't use those cheap orange buckets sold by a large home improvement store - if you block the hose, even briefly, the suction from a moderate shop vac will collapse those cheap buckets. Even though the orange with the new Pro model looks nice on an orange bucket, it's not going to work well for very long. (this isn't the fault of the Dustopper Pro, it works great with a standard, well-built white 5 gallon bucket.Other than those two caveats, for the intended use - separating out sawdust from work tools - this does exactly what it claims with only the very finest of dust particles continuing on to the shop vac. It's kind of like magic, actually, or some fancy parlor trick - I've sucked up six or seven gallons of shavings and finer sawdust and the inside of the shop vac looks nearly spotless.

This vortex separator is the first low-profile unit I have really liked. Others with the tall cone keep falling over and their performance is iffy depending on which product you have (or had - mine broke). This one fits great and is nice and low profile so the bucket remains stable. It fits a standard plastic drywall compound / paint bucket and even my old cyclone separator. Separates out the sawdust very well and saves a lot of bags and filters. Recommended for small shop or home shop.