Vacuum cleaner / dust extractor

[cropwell]

I have been using the Wickes vac for a while now (about 7 years) and waiting for the noisy bugger to blow up, but it seems pretty good still. I have a cyclone and bucket (actually a large glass jar) and I recently replaced it with a transparent lidded bucket, but that spectacularly imploded the first time I tried it when I blocked the inlet with my hand.

I have a small drum filter from an ash bucket on the top of the cyclone, in a 3d printed enclosure. This stops anything the cyclone doesn't and when the vac stops anything in it drops down through the cyclone into the collection bin. This keeps the main vac filter clean enough to consider not having it. So that might be put on the project list (to cut down the vac to a basic air mover to save space).