Designing a Precision Vacuum Adapter for a Sander | Dust Collection Upgrade

Mar 02, 2026

I designed a simple adapter that allowed me to connect an inexpensive sander to an expensive, commercial grade dust extractor. The demonstration shows you the steps that I went through, with the not only the goal of designing the adapter that I needed, but also a generic process for designing adapters that allow other types of tools to be used with the dust extractor.