Thread: Which vacuum?

Originally Posted by Auld Bassoon

Hi Cliff!

On mine, the bayonet has to be pushed in then turned, so have never had it "pop out" of its own accord.......

Yeap, it pushes in & turns OK but it doesn't lock into anything to stop it from turning around & popping back out again.

Does the Timbecon Vac have the ability to start up with a power tool connected?

I have a Lavor GBX wet n' dry. Has tool take-off, sucks the proverbial, very good felt filter and no bags. Hooked up to a mini-cyclone it is absolutely brilliant.

Bought it from Glenfords on special (sorry, two years ago, can't remember the price. So many days, so much red wine...)

Cheers,

The decision was made for me at the weekend, I received a Shop Vac Pro 20 as a birthday present and the giver promptly unpacked it and gave my shed a good going over.

A certainly much appreciated and generous gift, not sure I’d have bought the same brand mind you. But now it’s used I can’t change it so there you go.

It actually sucks extremely well and the large hose makes it easy to vacuum up pretty large pieces, there is no power control though so it will also take up all those valuable screws etc that fall on the floor whether I like it or not.

The filter is very large meaning you have to empty the drum more than I’m used to, still it was a gift and it beats a broom by a country mile so I’m happy.

We’ll see how long it lasts though as several people have said the things die quickly.

Cheers


Dave

Bump......

Originally Posted by martrix

Does the Timbecon Vac have the ability to start up with a power tool connected?

No Matrix, you have to remember to turn on the Vac as well as the power tool. Apparently they are bringing out a new model that will, but that no doubt will be closer in price to the Carba-tec models. Having now received the orange peril and set it up you would have to say it is reasonable value for $99.00 just don't compare it with the big names.

John.

I emailed Timbecon today to see if they were bringing any of the $99 vacuums to the Sydney show. Their reply is below:


We have now sold out of these. We had very limited stocks at the beginning of the promotion and they sold quickly at that price. We will have our new vacuums at the show however.

The new models mentioned will be:

The 25L ($199) is PAV-25 and the 60L ($299) is PAV-60. Thank you for your enquiry.

There's no details of these on their website yet, I'll keep an eye out for any info on them.