Best Shop Vac For Dust Collection 2024 - Best Home Depot Vacuum - wet/dry vacuum 

Okay, I'm gonna be the guy that says it. "All these vacuums suck!" Seriously, this is good information!!! Thanks for all the hard work and research! Shows every hour, I'll see myself out.

I buy thise little 3 gallon ridgids for tool carts where i want duat collection integrated for a particular tool. Fits in with a dusttopper really nicely in my miter saw cart.

Great test!

Super helpful video! Thanks for doing it! I'd love to see you compare the big Ridgid to the Dewalt Stealthsonic. Only because my 15yr old Ridgid is starting to overheat when I run it on long CNC projects, so I'm going to need to replace is soon. I just don't want to give up a bunch of performance just for a quieter machine, but if I can get the same performance AND reduce the noise, it's game over for Ridgid in my garage.

Volts x Amps/746 is how I shop for power tools, followed by capacity where applicable. It's still mind boggling how people expect to get 6hp of electrical power out of a standard wall outlet. I tell people about CFM calculations all the time too, especially when they're trying to plan for ventilation use for things like fume extractors. "Throw 60 feet of chutes and runners on that and see what happens." Never fails.

Good stuff!

Do the similar sized Ridgid "shop vacs"all have completely different motors or do some of them just have a different housing. I cant see them using separate motors when it would save a lot of $ to just have to purchase 1. I'm also convinced that the metal buckets are louder due to the thin walls. I've got both a plastic and a metal dewalt "shop vac" with the same capacity and the metal one is much louder.

You should add craftsman, husky, and Bauer to this test.

Try it with velocity tornado to prevent small dust getting to the filter

The dewalts are the best, especially the stealthsonic. My ridgid now lives in the scrap pile for being a noisey piece of shit with the same motor in it theyve been using since the 80s

I don't consider loudness in the decision matix, the reason being you should use hearing protection all the time and most of the time you'll be using a power tool as well, which also makes a lot of noise, which doubles the reasons to use hearing protection. That said, GREAT video!

Another great video man, awesome job! I hope I'm half as good as your videos when I get up and running. Very informative and well thought out. If I was looking for another (Wet/Dry vac) lol, I would definitely go with your recommendation of the 14 gallon Ridgid. Keep doing you and see you in the next one. Happy Building 💯😁

Best informative video yet! I am about to replace my Shop Vac and your demo was exceptional... Thanks and keep up these great videos...

Testing Home Depot vacuums but no Husky vacs (HD brand)?

Are there shop vacs with a soft start out there? I live in a house with crappy aluminum wiring and would also have the vac in a shed hooked up to a long extension cord. I definitely don't need a huge power surge when starting the damn thing.