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 opentop steel drum like me! This stepbystep howto 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 opentop 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, 4mm42mm (£21.59); and
• Draper grinding point set (£4.99).