I’m feeling generious this AM so here is a tip I always wanted to offer to the FHBs.
I don’t know how many of you use the sears/rigid shop vac ? but over the years I’ve gone through bunches. Nothing would get my goat more than tapping a fairly new filter out and the rubber/stuff would rip and 86 the filter. So the big cure—— take top end silicone caulk and the brand new filter and run a heavy bead all around the rim of the rubber seal, getting it down into the pleats, top and bottom, then do the the same on the inside. Let it cure and your good to go till the paper whears out.
hope that helps.
Clay
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I take a pair of the wife's pantyhose (no, not her good ones), cut one leg out and put that over the paper filter, as a prefilter. You have to clean it a little more often, but at $20 a pop for the new filters, it's worth it.
Shop vac makes an accessory filter bag the fits over the pleated paper filter.
Keeps all that fine crud from in-between the pleats.
costs about 5-6$Mr T
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Spend $40 on a cleanstream filter , it has a metal cap on the end and is teflon coated so the dust nocks off a lot easier. I've had the same one for 5 years in a 12 year old screaming sears vac that just won't die. It smells like burning rubber if I use it for more than 2 min. but it just won't ignite, maybe it needs a little help. haha
cheers Rik
Edited 7/10/2003 10:37:49 AM ET by RTACOMA
I second your recomendation on the cleanstream filter. I use mine mostly for wood working, but have used during drywall sanding, with it filtering down to 5 microns you get no fine dust flowing through. Easy to clean but tapping the filter aganist the edge of the driveway, or spraying with the hose.We are the people our parents warned us about. J. Buffett
RT,
Just wait until the plumbers have finished a full day of installing PVC.
then go up on the roof and vac out the fumes with your shop vac.
stand back tho!!!Mr T
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