It's for collecting Job site quartz dust but it does an excellent job of keeping drywall dust out of a plain ol' hole in plain ol' drywall It won't send fragile parts into a vacuum but it will protect your clothes and bookshelves from that wonderful plaster force If I do it off the wall i tilt the top towards me it holds big things in the machine then i can either throw it away or vacuum it up i bought a big one so i have enough room to use the oscillating tool to cut electrical box conversions. I usually have to rearrange it once or twice but it works well Another reviewer mentioned that there is room inside for a small LED flashlight is. That's a fantastic idea and now I'm dreaming of cracking it with a constant LED. Ah, projects: so many ideas, so little time to implement them.