4 Sep
2009
4 Sep
'09
5:30 p.m.
At 06:58 PM 9/4/2009 -0500, you wrote:
At 06:38 PM 9/4/2009 -0500, you wrote:
>Tom Peters wrote:
>>Off-topic I know, but I just nabbed a Rigid 9-gallon, 3.5 hp shop vac
>>for $19.97+tax. 7 foot hose, 10 foot cord. At your local Home Depot.
>>They have one that's the same or similar (Rigid, 9-gal, 3.5hp) in the
>>tool aisle for $58. This was in the front of the store. Someone from
>>Atlanta bought them too, I'm in WI. If anyone asks, I'll let you know
>>the pros and cons of the unit.
>
>Hmm, karma, or something. I was just staring at a vacuum cleaner motor
>and empty 5 gallon paint can earlier in the workshop's junk pile and
>thinking of possibilities (actually along the lines of dust extraction
>for my miter saw - the lack of any being the main reason I'd want a shop vac).
Ok, since you asked:
After a few brief uses, I see the pros and cons this way:
- Con: Incompatible hardware standards. The other vacs I've acquired free
or at rummages sales, and they use either 1-3/8" OD tools or 2-1/2" OD
tools. The new one looked like it might be the 2-1/2" standard, but it
isn't. The tools you stick on the end of the hose or 2 included extensions
have to be 1-3/4 inches outside diameter.
- Con: My other vacs use a paper filter- a big circle of paper you fold
over the inner cage on the motor assembly, and slide a ring down over it to
hold it. This one uses a pleated paper filter that you have to buy from a
Rigid dealer for about $15 a two-pack. No idea if they last longer than the
other kind.
- Pro: Came with hose, a small floor or flat surface attachement, and two
extension tubes.
- Con: Might need a brush tool with bristles, have to buy one.
- Pro: Nothing I've thrown at it gets stuck so far. Big problem with the
smaller hoses on the other vac.
- Pro: This thing sucks. I mean really sucks. Stronger suction force than
the other two I have.
- Pro: It's pretty quiet for what it does.
- Pro: The dimples on top of the feet (casters in the bottoms of these
feet) hold all the tools you're not presently using, securely...
- Con: ...As long as you only have four tools or fewer.
- Pro: It was cheap!
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