Shop Vac Stattic

I’m interested to hear what the experts have to say here. This is something I’ve noticed as well. The other day I was using my shop vac with the router table and noticed afterward that the hose had what I can only describe as a “dust afro” going on.

-- Steve -- University Heights, Ohio

You mean a Jobsite saw ? As far as static goes, you will want to empty the dust at the end of the day, it is recommended to do that with dust collectors also.

Both the Festool shop vacs and the Fien shopvac have an antistatic hose, do an awesome job at collecting dust, are portable and turn on and off when you start the tool.

I know the festool vacuum uses the same filter that they use to collect radioactive dust…....

It’s possible to “ground” the hose which should eliminate the “Afro” look

-- http://www.furnituremann.ca/

I enjoy getting a good burst of static build up then handing a unsuspecting freind/family/wife….lol a metal object and watchem jump after they grab it!
The metal will give them a charge w/o shocking you. Not enough to hurt them but boy do they wake up…. ;)

-- Can't never could do anything, to try is to advance.

There was another thread on the subject of static a few months ago. Many said that grounding was unnecessary but my argument was that if there was a regulatory requirement for grounding, whether by law or by insurance requirement, the point was moot.

-- If Stradivarius was alive today, he'd be using Gorilla Glue.

You can drain the static charge by grounding.

-- Todd A. Clippinger, Montana, http://amcraftsman.com