Chips, fines & air · review
A wet-and-dry workshop vacuum with tool-triggered start, at a third of the price of the professional machines here.
The bottom line A capable general vacuum. Not the machine to rely on for the fraction you cannot see.
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 wet-and-dry workshop vacuum, part number 2342460. Einhell publishes no dust class, no airflow and no suction figure on this listing.
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.
The absence of a class on the listing is the answer to the question. Machines that are M-rated say so in the title, because the rating is expensive to certify and is the reason to charge more.
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.
One reference and one EAN across all six markets: €155 in Germany, €160 in France, €170 in Spain, €173 in Italy, €254 in Britain, €448 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 | Wet and dry workshop vacuum |
|---|---|
| Part number | 2342460 |
| Amazon reference | B08W9V2H6H (identical on 6 markets) |
| EAN | 4006825651799 |
Because an extractor that has to be switched on separately gets left off. A socket on the vacuum that starts it when the tool starts removes the decision, which over a year is the difference between extraction that happens and extraction that is intended.
The listing does not state a dust class, and a machine at this price is very unlikely to be M-rated. For chips and general cleanup it is fine; for sanding hardwood in an enclosed shop, read the section on dust classes below and decide accordingly.
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 €
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 €
Dust class M · automatic filter cleaning
The M-class machine on this page — ten times less fine dust returned to the room, which for hardwood is the whole argument.
Best for: Hardwood work in an enclosed workshop, where the fine fraction is the point
≈ £620 / 580 €
