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Thanks for that,

Reading your comment I came to think of something I wrote to someone else recently and I said "nice", but I could very well have said "very nice" or "really nice". I wish I did that now but I guess it's never too late for me to do that next time.

I think if my local hardware store had these on the shelf I would not bother to try and make it, it's always an experience though.

I have done a small test with it and two things needs to be improved; first is that there is a small gap between the cylinder and the spiral plate/guide and wood chips would get stuck in that small gap. I will solve that by grinding the edges on the spiral plate/guide so that this gap gets slightly bigger as the spiral progresses down the cylinder. It should work even without that spiral guide so that should take care of the first issue. The second is that I need at least two buckets (one inside the other) to prevent it from buckling. Else than that it seemed to work alright, it should relieve the vacuum cleaner quite a bit.