- Messages
- 790
- Location
- Central North Carolina
Darren,
You won't likely have bucket collapsing problems if you are only using a regular shop vac. I never had a collapsing problem until I moved my Dust Deputy from my shop vac to the central vacuum unit. Then, the first time that I accidentally plugged the end of the hose, I heard a wump noise from the direction of the vacuum and the bucket was squished into a triangle.It only took a couple of seconds. Expect the worst if you should ever decide to use a more powerful vacuum. Until then you are probably OK. It's amazing what 14.7 psi atmospheric pressure can do when you remove the corresponding pressure from the inside of the bucket. The photo of my vacuum unit was taken just before I collapsed the bucket shown in the first two photos. The debris in the bucket was what I had vacuumed off of the shop floor before I accidentally plugged the hose and collapsed the bucket.
These photos were taken just before I used this vacuum with the Dust Deputy. The present status of my Dust Deputy has three of the Firehouse Subs pickle buckets under it instead of the one shown in the photo and I've now routed the exhaust line on the right side of the vacuum unit out through the shop wall. All of this is installed in the attic of my shop and it's very quiet, so quiet that I have to turn off my scroll saw or other shop power tool to hear it running, or check by feeling the air rushing into the end of the hose.. My son recently brought me a 30 gallon metal grease barrel, so I'll soon be making that into the collection container under the Dust Deputy and replacing the 5 gallon buckets.
Charley
You won't likely have bucket collapsing problems if you are only using a regular shop vac. I never had a collapsing problem until I moved my Dust Deputy from my shop vac to the central vacuum unit. Then, the first time that I accidentally plugged the end of the hose, I heard a wump noise from the direction of the vacuum and the bucket was squished into a triangle.It only took a couple of seconds. Expect the worst if you should ever decide to use a more powerful vacuum. Until then you are probably OK. It's amazing what 14.7 psi atmospheric pressure can do when you remove the corresponding pressure from the inside of the bucket. The photo of my vacuum unit was taken just before I collapsed the bucket shown in the first two photos. The debris in the bucket was what I had vacuumed off of the shop floor before I accidentally plugged the hose and collapsed the bucket.
These photos were taken just before I used this vacuum with the Dust Deputy. The present status of my Dust Deputy has three of the Firehouse Subs pickle buckets under it instead of the one shown in the photo and I've now routed the exhaust line on the right side of the vacuum unit out through the shop wall. All of this is installed in the attic of my shop and it's very quiet, so quiet that I have to turn off my scroll saw or other shop power tool to hear it running, or check by feeling the air rushing into the end of the hose.. My son recently brought me a 30 gallon metal grease barrel, so I'll soon be making that into the collection container under the Dust Deputy and replacing the 5 gallon buckets.
Charley
Attachments
Last edited: