Laugh your heads off, it even has duct tape! However the functionality is impressive, I needed a mobile solution to clean out 100years of mice turds, dust, and rotten wood in my attic:
1- it pulls more dust out of cracks that i had previously passed over with a standard wet/dry shop vac with pleated paper filter (had to it off every 10min)
2- The first 1/2 hour of gentle sawdust and dust vacuuming the filter was gray but no accumulation, the bucket had 2 kg (~1lb) of junk.
3- after, I hit thick piles of turds, old bits of insulation and chunks of plaster for 1/2 hour, the filter has 100g of dust and the bucket had 3 kg of junk.
Pretty? Durable? NO
Useful? Portable? Yes
Efficient? maybe
quasi-specs: vacuum is a heavy duty Miele (~2000W) that refuses to die w/ 1.5" inlet, 10" separator bucket (unfortunately with a taper in the opposite direction than desired, so there is a permanent spin of fines in the top corner), semi-rectangular transition from a 1.5" inlet shop vac hose, and yes, a cardboard baffle plate suspended by the threaded rods.
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-PzN50rXP73A/Tm8Rz60ZADI/AAAAAAAADKQ/52E7Xr287wM/s640/IMAG0601.jpg)