Thread: Shop vac recommendations?

This vac meets all your needs except one--I don't know if you can get it in OZ. I have one for off-premises work and it works a treat for what it is.

http://www.dewalt.com/us/products/to...productID=6220

Have a look at the Pulman range of vacs at Godfrey's. You can get a bagless "industrial style" for around $100.

With any shop vac purchase consider how the hose is going to connect to your tools before purchase.

Bunnings were selling a genuine 'Shop Vac' a while back for $99. I cant remember the HP. I have had a 4HP one for a few years now and its great.

woodcutta

I am on my third karcher they work great for about 200 bucks third because my mother stole one of them for herself and the other one had some terrible end that i can't recall it got crushed some how although i can't quite remember how. best value for money vac that i have come across.

still on my first Vac's , $499, but you can shampoo the carpets & rugs , and I have don a few times, the old adage buy quality once or cheap many times

Bunnies ShopVacs for $99 - they were the 15 (litre?) model, they are now selling the 20 (litre?) model for the same price. Pretty sturdy & are genuine ShopVacs & fit all the ShopVac accessories like the Mr Nozzle hoses. For another hundred $ they have a model with a stainless steel body - may even have a blower port too. Strangely I haven't seen genuine ShopVacs around since Bunnings started selling them.

I bought a Bunny shopvac with the stainless steel body 20 liters, I use it on small machines, scroll saw , vertical sander and the like. A good machine but very noisy and don't touch the body or you will be zapped
les

Originally Posted by les88

don't touch the body or you will be zapped
les

I had that problem with a different brand.
A piece if very light chain wedged between the canister and the plastic base and dragging on the floor earthed out all the static electricity.

Can you fit adapters to those bunnies shopvacs to fit all sorts of handheld power tools?

wizened of oz... thanks for the tip I will do that
Jisk the fittings fits some of the machines but if it doesn't what I do is is wrap some Gaffer tape around the join
les

Jisk - from what I have seen (& I have the small model) these are just straight vacuums with no auxilliary power point for hand tools. I think K-Mart was flogging an 'Arlec' Vac with a secondary power outlet, but I haven't looked lately and there is probably a GMC with the same features, different colour.

has anyone used the nilfisk alto they have them in the glenfords catolouge $995
are they any good?

Cheers les and bsrlee. I was interested in the hose fittings rather than the secondary power point.. i guess gaffer tape is an option.

I had a shopvac for years that finally died. I now use a Nilfisk domestic cleaner attached to a Triton bucket. I found the vacuum in the hard rubbish when looking for extra hoses and it worked.

For fittings I have used PVC plumbing pipe and softened it over the stove then shaped to fit the various tools. Any big change in shape was done it small steps letting it cool then raheat and shape furtehr.