Thread: Lil' Dust Extractors

G'day Shane
I have aquavac, its hardly commercial quality and I have replaced the motor 3 times (first 2 under 2 year warranty). However the motor replacement (due to dust in bearings I reckon) seems to be fixed by adding a drop in fine filter. I did suck up a lot of mdf dust in the early days.
Its got a larger hose as well as the standard.
Can be used as a wet vac.
It holds something like 30 litres of crap.
The motor comes off to be a blower (effective to)
Its cheap and its noisy.
Cheers
Rod

Hey Shane,
I have something called a shopvac it is a large bucket similar to a large paint tin and the motor sits on top of this. Like the last poster it has a large diameter hose. It is makes loads of noise and does very little sucking. I very rarely use it. It retails for around $100. Luckily I only paid around $20 but even then it was too much

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May the stink be with you

Shane have 3 0f the same sort with the 25-30 litre drum underneath all different brands each one supposedly bigger and better suckers than the next.

The big problem with them is that the fine dust coats the filters and stops them sucking to their maximum potential. even with filter bags they don't suck at their best for long.

I have found the portable dust extractor to be a best. You can addapt almost enything to go onto the hose with enough gaffer tape. They suck like crazy and aren't all that bothered by the fine dust. A 1hp one on wheels works great.

If all else fails try a really long hose for your big ectractor and use it like a conventional ducted vac.

Hope this helps.

Cheers mate - Neil
Hope you've been a good boy this year or else.....

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I picked up a miele vac at a garage sale for five bucks, the hose had fallen out of the fittings and there was a lot of plastic tape holding it together, a quiick application of screwdriver got the inner fitting out of the flange, screwed the hose back in, boom boom, good as new. A trip to godfreys and $20 for a pack of 15 disposable bags. Dropped into Bunnies on the way home and got a triton bucket, put the shebang together and works good as gold (after spending another 50 on a remote switch from dick smith).
LIke you said Shane, the filter clogs, but the lid comes off easily and a quick knock clears most of the dust and the bucket holds the big bits and the vac bags last forever.
It works well and cost me $60 all up not including the switch and as I have all the vac fittings as well I can use it to clean up the floor as well.
The filter in the bucket is also washable, I phoned triton to find this out
Garage sales are wonderful things at times and well worth a look.

I have a Bosch Industrial vac. Got out of the Melbourne Trading Post for $50. About the size of a 25 litre drum. It has a paper bag inside which filters out the dust pretty well. As Iain said it is really good when hooked up to the Triton Dust Bucket (about $40 ).Very little dust gets through. It is light and easy to move around the shed and hook up to the bandsaw, linisher etc. as well as the Triton gear.
Regards. John H.

Hi all,

Iain, John, and I seem to be using the same setup. Old vaccuum and Triton Dust Bucket.

I've glued a half-brick to the bootom of the bucket to keep it from toppeling over all the time.

I've added a 60' hose from godfreys.

And housed the vaccuum itself in a perminant position in a box make of 3/4" ply wood I bought from about two years ago. I can actually have a conversation while its on.

For some silly reason I've got hooks mounted all over the workshop to hold the bucket close to whatever machine I've wroking on.

And I've just had a flash to mount it perminately next to the vacuum box and just move the hose around. And use the hooks for something else. well duh.

I went to godfreys to see if I could get on of those $49 vacuums. I found one and the clark offered a $40 for 10 years - yearly maintenance contract. When I declined and just wanted to buy this and go.
The clark wrote up the new cleaner and added the $40 10 year/ yearly contract to the invoice and told me that it was just too good of a deal. And since the contact didn't have a make and model of the vacuum then I could use the one contract for this machine and any other machine I have at home.

I took the contract and the machine home.

I placed new filters in my house vaccume and returned with it to godfreys. The clark happily sent it off to have it serviced.

One week later the vaccuum returned with a $24.95 filter replacement charge on them. I mentioned that it had a new filter when I brought it in and he dropped the filter replacement charge.

He mentioned that the vacuum I had purchaed the week prior had not been to service. And would service it if I brought it in.

So I did the same thing. Returned with the
vacuum. Pointing out that it had a new filter and was returned in a week.

Although I was quite skeptical about the service I was impressed how both have increased their intake quite noticably.

I'll need to check to see if their due again.


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Thanks,
Barry G. Sumpter
Proud Tritoneer

[This message has been edited by barrysumpter (edited 24 December 2001).]

Thanks guys....

Went to Bunnies this morning ( what a rip off that place is! ) and had a look at what they had. They only had Karcher vacuum cleaners, which is what I had been thinking about anyway & they arn't damn cheap either. So thought I would check out one of them dust collector buckets from Triton ( Barry - that should make your heart beat with pride ) But they didn't have any in stock! And couldn't find where they would be shelfed either, so I couldn't get price on one. Barry??? you should know
So went to a local hardware store and they had them in stock, but no price either & there were no staff available to help & I had things to do so I took off. But it does look like a good idea. Something I might look into a bit deeper down the track.... Until then I think I will stick with Neils suggestion & continue using my big dust extractor....
Cheers!!! & don't drink too much eggnog tomorrow!!! gotta save room for the bundy!!! Mwahahahaha!







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Shane Watson..

Combine Love & Skill & You Can Expect A Masterpiece!