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20th January 2006, 09:21 PM #1
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vacuum attachment for metabo sxe 450 duo
G'day all. After much agonising over choices I bought a metabo sxe 450 duo. Frankly, I'm amazed at it's performance. After hours of sanding hairy oak with the orbital, and then going down the grits by hand, I still wasn't getting all the planing marks out. 30 minutes with the metabo, planing marks- gone, with just a light swirl (easily taken out by hand). My only gripe is attaching my vacuum hose to it. I had to canabilise the wifes for the hose. To say it was bodgy would be an understatement. There's a push and turn fitting on the sanders dust exhaust to take the bag, so I'm assuming there might be an accessory to fit a vacuum hose. How do all you other metabo users attach hoses to your sanders? Cheers, great forum, first post for me.
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20th January 2006, 10:35 PM #2
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The hose end on my shop vac fits straight into the Metabo, but the vibration soon has it out again so I hold it in with my right hand most times, but I'm not sanding for 30 minutes. If I'm going to be sanding for more than a few minutes I hold the fitting in with a bit of gaffer tape.
Gaffer tape and short lenghts of bicycle inner tube can both be good friends when attaching the vac to various tools.
Kind regards
Brian
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21st January 2006, 08:59 AM #3
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The hose from my Triton dust collector fits great on my Metabo. Maybe you should look at some small pipe joiners at bunnings. Tape an outer one on the sander and the inner one on the pipe. They would then just fit together snuggly and be pulled apart easily. We used that method on the old style Triton respirators and it worked a treat as a simple and easily removable connector.
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21st January 2006, 02:03 PM #4
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A bit of 32mm(i think...)PVC with some tape wrapped around it press fits into the Duo and slides into the vac hose. Cost about 2c
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23rd January 2006, 08:45 PM #5
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G'day Reo,
I had the same question when I bought mine. Got sick of gaffer taping the hose to the sander. Called metabo to ask for an attachment, but they said they don't make any such beast. They reckon the hose from the metabo shopvac fits straight on the sander (doesn't help me much). So I reckon the other guy's suggestions of pipe connectors and tape (bike inner tube works well too) is a goer.
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