Chips, fines & air · review
A €169 chip extractor that moves 1,150 cubic meters an hour — and publishes nothing at all about what it filters.
The end of it Good airflow for the money, with the one number that matters for your lungs left off the page.
Every figure is a manufacturer specification, read off the listing itself, and the judgments 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.
550 W, 1,150 m (3773 ft)³/h of air, a 75 liter collection capacity, a Ø 100 mm (3.94 in) hose connection with a 2,300 mm (90.6 in) flexible hose, wheels as standard and an adapter set for connecting small tools. Part number 3906301915.
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.
1,150 m (3773 ft)³/h through a 100 mm (3.94 in) port puts this squarely in the first category. It is the right machine for the planer, the bandsaw and the table saw in this group, and the wrong one for the sanders and the routers.
Filtration. The listing says how much air the unit moves and how much waste the bag holds, and says nothing about what the filter medium captures. Those are different questions: moving chips into a bag is easy, and holding onto the particles small enough to stay airborne is what separates a good extractor from one that redistributes dust around the room.
If fine dust is the reason you are buying an extractor at all, get the filtration grade in writing before ordering.
€169 in Germany and €635 on amazon.com — an import listing rather than local distribution. The British, French, Italian and Spanish stores carried no price when we checked, although the reference resolves on all six. For most readers of this page, that makes it a German purchase or none.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 2026-08-12. The live price is at the top of the page.
| Motor | 550 W |
|---|---|
| Air volume | 1,150 m (3773 ft)³/h |
| Capacity | 75 liters |
| Hose | Ø 100 mm (3.94 in), 2,300 mm (90.6 in) long |
| Mobility | Wheeled as standard |
| Filtration rating | Not published on this listing |
| Part number | 3906301915 |
| Amazon reference | B00IEHZ254 (identical on 6 markets) |
| EAN | 4046664004943 |
No. The listing carries part number 3906301915 and reads HD12. We name the product the listing names rather than the one the search asked for, and on extraction equipment the model number carries the airflow figure — so the two are not interchangeable.
Through the adapter set, badly. A chip extractor develops very little suction at a small port; it is a volume machine, and a 35 mm (1.38 in) sander port needs pressure. It will move some dust and it will not do the job a workshop vacuum does.
That we cannot tell you what happens to the fine fraction. A bag extractor moves the chips into the bag reliably; whether the fine dust is captured or blown back into the room depends entirely on the filter medium, and that is the specification this listing does not give. Ask before buying if fine dust is your concern.
A listing is not an offer: the reference exists on these stores, availability changes daily.
8.7/ 10
Good airflow for the money, with the one number that matters for your lungs left off the page.
Feeding a planer, a bandsaw or a table saw in a single-machine workshop
Specifications: the manufacturer sheet for woodworking machines and the matching Amazon product page. Prices and availability: Keepa. Every figure on this page names its source.
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