8 Gal. Dust Extractor

Great product. Comes with additional adapters to hook all your power tools up with.

I'm a DIY'er and woodworker with bronchial problems, I wear a dust mask but it’s inconvenient and uncomfortable my hope is that with the Milwaukee I can use a simpler mask. This is a well built machine and is nicely finished. The hose is long, highly visible and fits most of my equipment without adaptors. Access to all the controls and filters is easy. The cord is very long making it easy to move around the shop. The wheels make moving it around the shop real simple but I have a cart with a dust separator that it will eventually be mounted on. First project I used it on was to surface my bench, starting with a belt sander and finishing with the ROS. Dust in the pleated filter amounted to virtually none, no way of knowing how much there is in the bag but there was almost none left on the bench. Kind of tells me that it was "in the bag". As I had done this before I know the filter in my old vac would have been packed full. Another plus is how quiet this is at 4 feet 72 dB my old vac at 4 feet is 89 dB. Those readings are with the units running with nothing connected. Next was connecting to the small router table then the 6 inch jointer and finally the 13 inch planer. Using some red oak for the tests it gobbled up everything but some chips from the planer. Old vac missed some on that machine also. I'm already sure that this is a very nice addition to my shop

This Milwaukee 8 Gallon Dust Extractor with Hepa filter offers some of the industries best performances. It runs very quiet (just 69db), cleans the return air down to just .3 microns (.00001 of an inch) and has suction power of almost 8ft of water column height! Overall construction of this unit feels well made, solid, and parts lock together pretty tight. It has a very industrial build for long lasting service (5 year warranty). The wheels allow the unit to roll easier than you would think over a concrete floor covered in sawdust and dried dirt. The first thing I noticed once I turned it on is how quiet it is in comparison to my 6 hp wet/dry vac. This is barely louder than a whisper and can probably be contributed to the triple filtration system. The suction is powerful and more than enough for the portable power tools it's designed to work with. While I don't have any concrete work or silica sanding to test it on, I did hook it up to my Dewalt 8.5" compound miter saw and made quite a few test cuts into some MDF. It worked almost as well as my shop vac for that application but did notice just a bit more dust being left behind. It's obvious the dust extractor unit is not designed for universal wood working dust collection. It does not come with a 2.5" adapter to fit a 2.25" opening such as that on my Big Dog router table. The tool activated plug is also only rated for a max draw of 4.6 amps. Even a small compact router draws 5.5 amps so this feature would be limited to sanding applications for the most part. However, this fine filtration system is great, releasing clean fresh smelling air into the workshop! With the front controls set to auto-clean, you'll hear the unit "pop" twice every 10-15 seconds which if desired, can be deselected. I pulled the filters after making 25-30 6" cuts into the MDF and couldn't see any fine dust that got past the large cloth filter bag, much less the pleated post filter or the final HEPA filter. It's pretty easy to get to the first two filters to empty and clean and you shouldn't need to replace the HEPA filter very often. Solid build, great features, great performance and a 5 year warranty. Once I can source the additional right adapters, this Milwaukee Dust Extractor will have a permanent spot under my shop table for fine dust collection and health protection!

Vacuum seemed nice, liked the filter cleaning mechanism but the hose immediately failed. There is no easy way to replace it either.

Quite works good but still a considerable amount of dust escaping .

The Milwaukee 8 gallon dust extractor model 8960-20 is a powerful vacuum with conveniently long hose and electrical cord. The vacuum has significantly reduced the dust in my garage workshop over my old Shop Vac. My big issue with the unit is the limited usefulness of the attachments, and the inability to find affordable attachments that will allow the dust extractor to work with my power tools.

Works great for concrete dust with concrete polishing/grinding. Only complaint might be that the felt bags are expensive. Wish they made a reusable fabric bag.

Vacuum performs good so far. One big con is that is very heavy (empty), will see how heavy is when full.

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Just what I needed to keep my shop clean. Works great with all my power tools. The auto on feature works great with all my corded tools. Quiet pleasant noise level. Highly recommend.