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In my unending efforts to have an environmentally friendly shop (clean air) I decided that it was finally time to look at replacing my 25 year old Sears shop vac. Sears stopped making filters for this unit a couple of years after I got it so since then I just take the filter outside and bang it against a tree to knock the dust out of it. Not a good idea to use this unit as it tended to expel some of the dust into the shop. I didn’t want to get a new shop vac until I got around to making a chip separator but could never decide what to use as a bucket. I wanted to have something that had more capacity than a 5 or 6 gallon bucket. Well, when the old shop vac gave up its life I realized that I had a perfect bucket so to speak. Here I have a 16 gallon container that has a nice edge that is easy to make a top for that is fairly air tight and has castors. So it looks like I can now get a new Ridgid shop vac to pair up with my new chip separator.
-- Randy
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NBeener
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#1 posted 420 days ago
Oh, NEAT !
Very nicely, and tidily, done !
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Dusty56
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#2 posted 420 days ago
Well done !
How old is that vac ? : )
-- When did quiet and quite become the same word ? I'm guessing about the same time as your and you're did.
DIYaholic
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#3 posted 420 days ago
Now that’s using your Noggin and what you have available on hand. Great job!
-- Randy-- I may not be good...but I am slow!
NormG
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#4 posted 420 days ago
Well, you now have a new one, great job
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gfadvm
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#5 posted 420 days ago
Good build. You’ll love that Ridgid shop vac. I put a panty hose ‘pre-filter over the paper filter and I just tap the shop vac on the floor and the dust falls off and save having to open the vac.
-- " I'll try to be nicer, if you'll try to be smarter" gfadvm
revanson11
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#6 posted 420 days ago
I just mentioned the panty hose to my wife and she say’s she has some for me to use since she no longer does.
-- Randy
gfadvm
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#7 posted 420 days ago
Tie the legs in a knot and thencut them off. The elastic waistband holds it on very well.
-- " I'll try to be nicer, if you'll try to be smarter" gfadvm
wdworking
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#8 posted 419 days ago
I took the filter out of my Shop Vac with the Dust Deputy on it. I will run the hose attached to the exhaust outside shortly.
-- Craig http://www.wouldworking.com
Jim Jakosh
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#9 posted 419 days ago
Great idea!
-- Jim Jakosh.....Practical Wood Products...........Learn something new every day!!
ldl
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#10 posted 418 days ago
Bump head “Wow I coulda had a V8.” I got an old shop vac that is too obsolete and has been sitting around just waiting till I decided to throw it away. Incidentally I am a pack rat from way back. A trait handed down for generations. Though it has tapered sides I think I can adapt it as you did.
Thanks for the idea.
-- Dewayne in Bainbridge, Ga. - - No one can make you mad. Only you decide when you get mad - -
parkerdude
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#11 posted 415 days ago
Thanks for the idea, I’ll have to remember this, for when my shop-vac dies. It’s identical to yours, but it still works! 8-)
-- dust control
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