All steel construction. Very solidly made. Works brilliantly to intercept dust, wood shavings etc. before it goes to vacuum cleaner (so keeps the vacuum bag and filter much cleaner). Despite some negative comments about difficulty in connecting to 50mm inlet and outlet, I achieved this very easily and elegantly by buying two floplast black mini rainwater pipe connectors (under £2 each from Screwfix) and two extra vacuum hose spouts for my Trend T35A dust extractor - cutting the supplied Trend 39mm OD black pipe into two pieces ca. 1.5m and 3.5m long (the latter being used with the provided attachments for ‘hoovering up’ the dust from the floor or from portable woodworking machines such as my plunge saw). The Trend spout fortuitously fits snugly into the mini pipe connector which in turn fits snugly inside the metal inlet/ outlet ports of the dust commander as shown in the photo (please ignore slight dust in photo which was there before I got everything operational - everything is now virtually dust free 😊)
Excellent Sawdust separator in combination with dust Trend T35A dust extractor
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 December 2018
All steel construction. Very solidly made. Works brilliantly to intercept dust, wood shavings etc. before it goes to vacuum cleaner (so keeps the vacuum bag and filter much cleaner). Despite some negative comments about difficulty in connecting to 50mm inlet and outlet, I achieved this very easily and elegantly by buying two floplast black mini rainwater pipe connectors (under £2 each from Screwfix) and two extra vacuum hose spouts for my Trend T35A dust extractor - cutting the supplied Trend 39mm OD black pipe into two pieces ca. 1.5m and 3.5m long (the latter being used with the provided attachments for ‘hoovering up’ the dust from the floor or from portable woodworking machines such as my plunge saw). The Trend spout fortuitously fits snugly into the mini pipe connector which in turn fits snugly inside the metal inlet/ outlet ports of the dust commander as shown in the photo (please ignore slight dust in photo which was there before I got everything operational - everything is now virtually dust free 😊)