I have this setup on my shop vac. I only use it for general clean up now, as I have a separate dust collector, but it works really well. And it’s a lot less to print than a full cyclone…
If you have a menards close to you, they carry dust deputies cheaper than you can get them on amazon.
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As mentioned previously, I’m in Canada… and I’m about 50% printed already. 
For the size I wanted, it’s only about 32 hours of printing and 650g of materials, so I’m doing okay. I think it’d still be more expensive to buy one.
Oh yea! Bouncing between too many posts.
Wait, you actually can save more money at menard’s?
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Big Money!
Looks like the closest Menard’s is about a 2000km (~1250mi) drive from my place… In Wyoming.
Easy 2 day trip there and back! 
British Columbia or way north Alberta?
Oh darn. We don’t have them in CO, but I remember the commercials when I visited my grandparents over the summers in Nebraska.
I used my MPCNC to cut the parts for a Thien baffle. It would have worked better if I had sealed up the plywood to the bucket.
Vancouver BC. I have 2/3rds of the cyclone printed now, just started the second piece.
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A quick mockup of the cabinet: doors on the two ends to access the dust bucket or maybe drawer, and the vacuum on the opposite end.
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Few more pieces cut and dadoed. I don’t have enough left for the doors I don’t think. 
I’ll have to find something else I guess. Most of the pieces I used all but a few inches of.
By the way, I’m doing this work using a circular saw and my makita router and clamping my t-square to the pieces. 
Someday I’ll actually have a shop. Someday… I’m kind of on hold now for the bottom of the cyclone to finish printing.
I started with a jigsaw and a corded drill. You can do a lot with a couple of hand tools.
Vacuum enclosure side mostly compete. I’m hoping the combination of rubber-backed carpet tile, solid insulation and 3/4" plywood will cut at least 15-20dB on the vacuum. It was supposedly a 65dB design but it’s more like 75db at 4 feet distance.
Last pieces dadoed and doweled for alignment. And pipe cut to length for inside the cabinet. Just about ready to start assembling. The edges don’t line up perfectly though. Might have to take the sides out and cut another 1/8" off to clean it up.
Will you be able to take the entire top off when you’re done to clean it?
If not, how hard will it be to hook that hard pipe back up through your access door?
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I might put the top on a hinge, I haven’t decided yet. And the pipe should just push straight into the vacuum. It’s a snug fit but it does seem to make a decent seal. The vacuum area has a shelf that slides in above the vacuum on an angle that I probably will leave loose so I can remove it in case of access problems.
Test taking the vac in and out a few times using just the side access area. Every time a hand, arm, or head goes somewhere there will be wood, go ,“bzzrt”. and try again. If it takes you more than 3 tries, make mods.
I had to take a jigsaw to a similar project due to a similar issue.