Then I glued the plywood into the top of the funnel with a small rubber strip around the plywood to tighten the fit and to help seal it. Then I just used some normal wood glue to hold it in place. We will see how this holds, epoxy would have worked well here also.
Then I simply put the two couplings on each pipe and attached my shop vac hose and I was done!
Overall, the system really worked great. The only problem was that the 5 gallon bucket wasnt strong enough and would try to collapse if I covered the open end of the hose completely. The bucket I have is thinner than normal buckets so ill just have to get a thicker one then I should be fine I hope.It really amazed me at how clean the filter and shop vac can was. I sucked up a pretty good bit of saw dust and smaller particles that I swept up off the floor, all in all about 1/3 of a 5 gallon bucket. The shop vac was empty except for a few long shavings some other larger pieces of trash that I was curious about. The filter looked good and clean so this thing really made a big improvment, glad I built it. You should really consider building one too!
