Chips, fines & air · review
A cordless wet and dry vacuum with a 30 litre stainless drum — the machine that goes to the dust rather than waiting for it.
The bottom line A well-built cordless drum vacuum with no published suction figure. If you already hold Power X-Change packs, it is easy to justify.
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 cordless wet and dry vacuum on the Einhell Power X-Change system, running two 18 V batteries, supplied without battery or charger. A 30 litre stainless steel tank with a water drain screw, a Ø 36 mm hose 2.5 m long, a stainless telescopic tube, a large combination nozzle, a blow connection for clearing corners and recesses, a bleed valve on the handle, an accessory holder on the body, and three filter media in the box: foam, pleated, and a paper dust bag. Part number 2347140.
Workshop dust equipment divides in two, and the division is not about price. A chip extractor moves a large volume of air at low pressure through a wide hose: that is what a planer, a bandsaw or a table saw needs, because those machines produce shavings faster than a narrow hose can carry them. A workshop vacuum moves a small volume at high pressure through a narrow hose: that is what a sander, a router or a track saw needs, where the waste is fine and the port is small.
Swap them and both fail in a predictable way. The vacuum blocks on the first handful of shavings, and the extractor develops almost no suction at a small port — leaving the fine fraction in the air, which is the part that matters for your lungs.
This is the second category. A Ø 36 mm hose and a drum this size make it the right tool for sander and router ports, for site clean-up and for wet pickup — and the wrong one for a planer, which will fill it in minutes and block the hose while doing it.
Three media for three jobs: foam for wet work, pleated for dry, and the paper bag when you want the fine dust contained rather than tipped out of an open drum. Which one is fitted matters more to the result than any figure Einhell has published, and the listing gives no suction or airflow rating at all.
€155 in Britain, €167 in Germany, €182 in Italy, €188 in France, €192 in Spain. One reference and one barcode across six markets with a narrow spread and Britain cheapest. The American price of €492 is an import listing rather than local distribution — roughly three times the British figure for the same machine.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 2026-08-12. The live price is at the top of the page.
| System | Power X-Change, 2 × 18 V, no battery or charger |
|---|---|
| Tank | 30 litres, stainless steel, with a drain screw |
| Hose | Ø 36 mm, 2.5 m |
| Tube | Stainless steel telescopic, Ø 36 mm |
| Filters supplied | Foam filter, pleated filter, paper dust bag |
| Also fitted | Blow connection, bleed valve on the handle, accessory holder |
| Part number | 2347140 |
| Amazon reference | B07KY6B73T (identical on 6 markets) |
| EAN | 4006825635874 |
For occasional use, yes — a Ø 36 mm hose on a vacuum is the right kind of machine for a small port, unlike a chip extractor. What the listing does not publish is the suction figure, so we cannot tell you how well. Also check whether the tool port needs an adapter.
It lets air in deliberately, which drops the suction at the nozzle. It is there so that a stuck nozzle can be released without switching off, and it is genuinely useful when vacuuming anything light enough to be pinned to the end of the tube.
Because a vacuum spends its life being dragged behind you, and the cord is the thing that catches. Off a socket it also works in a garden, a car or an unwired outbuilding. The cost is that a 36 V machine drains two 18 V packs, and you need those packs before it does anything at all.
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 €
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 €
