just bought this for use in the workshop

[flying haggis]

used central vac system motor and hoses

cost me the grand sum of £10

 

[Bingy man]

Bargain of the year .

 

[TRITON]

Well im sure you'll find a use .. but tbh isn't this for household cleaning, might not be suitable for masses of wood dust or chippings.

 

[Morag Jones]

But if you build a cyclone can inline… maybe?

 

[flying haggis]

Well it is a bagless model with just a filter twixt motor and bucket and the other good thing is that as they were designed to start up when the hose was plugged into the wall socket it already has a built in relay and low voltage transformer for a start switch.
And it came with over 50ft of hose!

 

[Sideways]

Central vac systems are powerful and crazily expensive.
2 and 3 stage turbines not uncommon. It's one of the uses for them like in HVLP sprayers.

That was an great score.

Just put a cyclone on the front of it.

 

[Hypnotic Chimera]

I recently bought a Evolution R15VAC and added one of these:


Dust Commander (Amazon link)


It is absolutely fantastic. Needs to be fitted centrally to a *circular* bucket for best effect - but I'm getting ZERO dust into the vac. Game changer.

 

[flying haggis]

That cyclone looks good and seems to do the job as you say. I got the manual with the vac and it states max suction power 480w, max air flow 55L/s and max vacuum 25kPA. Is that good or bad?

 

[Hypnotic Chimera]

That cyclone looks good and seems to do the job as you say. I got the manual with the vac and it states max suction power 480w, max air flow 55L/s and max vacuum 25kPA. Is that good or bad?

I've no idea where those numbers lie, relatively speaking, compared to other vacs, although mine is specified at 42L/s flow rate, even though it's a 1000W motor... So on that single metric your bargain vac outflows mine by circa 25%.

I liked the Evolution one for it's power pass-through function and also since it can be used as a wet vac and can also be used as a blower... still, I'm impressed that you only paid £10. Can't be beaten at that price.

 

[Katomi woodsmith]

I finally decided to get a “proper” vac for the workshop, my leaf vac conversion is ok for the wood thicknesses but sanding dust from lathe work ....
So I got something that goes down to half micron, it’s made a huge difference in the workshop