Chips, fines & air · review
A proper chip collector on wheels, with four machine adaptors in the box — the right machine for a planer or a table saw port.
The bottom line The right shape of machine for the big ports, at a price that makes the argument easy.
Hands-on testing pending. Nothing below is presented as our own measurement. Every figure is a manufacturer specification, read off the listing itself, and the judgements are ours — drawn from how the specification behaves in this class of machine and from what long-term owners consistently report. Where a figure is missing, we say so rather than fill it in.
A wheeled chip collector supplied with four machine adaptors, part number 5906307901-500. Scheppach publishes neither an airflow figure nor a filter grade on this listing.
A chip collector moves a large volume of air at low pressure. It suits a 100 mm port on a planer, a table saw or a band saw, where the waste is bulky and the duct is wide.
A workshop vacuum moves a small volume at high pressure. It suits a 32 or 35 mm hose on a sander, a router or a track saw, where the waste is fine and the port is narrow.
Swap them and each collects almost nothing, while sounding exactly as though it is working. It is the most expensive misunderstanding in the category, and no listing explains it.
This is the other half of that pairing: the machine for the 100 mm ports. It is also the reason a workshop ends up owning two extractors rather than one.
European workshop vacuums carry a dust class. L lets through up to 1 % of the dust it collects; M lets through up to 0.1 %, ten times less. Both look identical and both say “dust extraction” on the box.
Wood dust is classified as a Group 1 carcinogen by the IARC, and the harmful fraction is the fine one that a filter either holds or does not. For hardwood in an enclosed workshop, M is the class to look for. An L-class machine is not useless — it collects chips perfectly well — but it returns ten times more of the fraction you cannot see to the room you are standing in.
Chip collectors are not classed the way workshop vacuums are, which is precisely why the filter grade is worth asking about before ordering.
One reference and one EAN across all six markets: €139 in Germany, €150 in France, €154 in Spain, €185 in Britain, €188 in Italy, €379 on amazon.com.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 2026-08-12. The live price is at the top of the page.
| Type | Chip collector (Späneabsaugung) |
|---|---|
| Mobility | Wheeled base |
| Supplied with | 4 machine adaptors |
| Part number | 5906307901-500 |
| Amazon reference | B09JGRN71Y (identical on 6 markets) |
| EAN | 4046664127413 |
More than you would think. Machine ports are not standardised — 100 mm, 63 mm, 35 mm, and several proprietary ovals — and the adaptor you need is always the one not in the box. Four included is four purchases you do not make and four hose connections that actually seal.
For chips, yes. For the fine fraction, a standard bag filter is porous enough that a good deal passes back into the room — which is why serious workshops add a cyclone separator ahead of the collector and an ambient air filter above the bench. The listing does not state a filter grade here, which is worth asking about.
1 200 W · dust class L · semi-automatic filter clean
The professional L-class vacuum with semi-automatic filter cleaning — the feature that stops suction fading halfway through a job.
Best for: Site and workshop extraction where suction has to stay constant all day
≈ £840 / 480 €
Wet and dry · automatic start
A wet-and-dry workshop vacuum with tool-triggered start, at a third of the price of the professional machines here.
Best for: General workshop cleanup and light sanding extraction on a budget
≈ $450 / £255 / 155 €
2 × 18 V · 30 L stainless · Ø 36 mm hose · bare tool
A cordless wet and dry vacuum with a 30 litre stainless drum — the machine that goes to the dust rather than waiting for it.
Best for: Site and garage clean-up, and extraction at small tool ports away from a socket
≈ $490 / £155 / 165 €
