I recently read a blurb about a shop vacuum head for 5 gallon buckets, and haven’t been able locate it with internet searches, Can’t remember the name of it. Seems like a good idea for small cleanups. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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the latest Popular Mechanics has a short article about one called the SpeedClean BucketVac.
There wasn't a website link, but I imagine if you google the name, you'll come up with something.
Thanks for all the links, everybody. It was in PM that I saw it. Wondered about the specs.
here ya' go
http://toolmonger.com/2009/08/07/speedclean-bucketvac/
http://www.speedclean.com/BucketVac.htmlBut it does not give any specs. Or what kind of filter that it uses.For about that price Rigid and Shop-vac (I think Lowes exclusive) that have the suction of their normallyh 10-12 gal units, but in a 5 gal package. And know filters and drywall bags, etc..
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Watch garage sales for the older 5 gallon shop vacs.
The ones made of white plasyic, and utilising a metal, blue and white cannister.
The 'head snaps onto the cannister with three snaps.
That head can be just as easily snapped onto a 5 gallon bucket.
I have one.
I bought it 8 or 10 years ago for $17.99 at Sears. (Big price tag taped on. I never removed it.)
It's a Ryobi. It still runs as well as it ever did, but I'd rather have the money.
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My first "dust collector" in my small basement shop was a sears 16 gallon shop vac plumbed to a 55 gal. cardboard drum with pvc els and carpet tubes. Made blast gates from alpo cans and masonite sliders.dryer vent for flex to fixed machines, quite the engineering marvel I must say. But when all the gates were closed the shop vac ( That red LOUD thing sears made so well, I still have it 30 yrs later) would collapse the cardboard drum. I took a few 1x2" and screwed them like spokes that could spider leg apart and wedged it inside the drum to keep it from imploding..LOLWorked great for getting the big chips and stuff before the vac filled up and was easy to empty when full. Now I see they sell drum and trash can lids premade and buckets to hold water for drywall dust. I shoulda patented mine way back then.That cyclone action by opposing the elbows in the snap off lid was the secret, the swirl would make the stuff fall out of the vacuume stream and save the vacs filter from plugging up.I still cobble dust collection parts from junk, my main trunk line now is old galvanized 4" round downpout, but hooked to real two bagger DC.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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