"Neil Brooks" wrote in message
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Lastly, lots of people recommend some sort of chip separation for use
with a Shop Vac. Keeps it from filling/clogging for much longer
periods of time.

Would something as simple as a short bit of horizontal tube and a 'T' work
for that? We had something like that in the suction pipe on the cotton gin
I worked in for rocks. Had a spring loaded cover on the rock drop. Every
once in a while we would walk by and open the cover to drop the rocks out
into the trash can below.