Credit where it is due. I was just wasting time, and popped in here to see what you were talking about. Before it was over I had paused your video, walked out to the garage and put a piece of tape on my shop vac. Replacing the top the right way is a minor...yet constant annoyance and this solution is as brilliant as it is simple. Well done!
Not certain how RU-vid knew I JUST BOUGHT a shop vac... Still in the car whilst I'm at the bar... Will have to watch this again when I get home so I can hear it.
Pool scum filters or one gallon paint filters will fit over the vacuum filter nicely. Also one bag lasts me a very long time and saves me from cleaning out the bucket and keeping the filter clean.
You're absolutely right, I use the pool scum filters on my K&N filter for my F-350 7.3l I never need to clean bugs, leaves, sticks and just big stuff out of the filter pleats. AWESOME STUFF, got'm off Amazon. 👍👍👍
@@mygt8a4re No. The pool scum filters are really for hair and not 0.03 particles. Fine dog hair and stuff. Haven't tried the paint ones yet but looking at them they seem the same. Hasn't stopped my vacuum in any way.
Sir you are a genius thank you for sharing this with me and all of us I just bought my first shot back and now I'm going in the game with real wisdom I appreciate it thank you
i owned part of 7 used car dealerships we killed 7 shop vacs in 9 months not cheap vacs either. We did 1 thing after talking to a Ridgid dealer who told us yeah your filters plugging making your vacuum work too hard , we took the filters out and bam ! never replaced a vacuum the next 5 years ! We removed the filters ! Took em right off . The filters for dust not much more ! I literally detailed thousands of cars with no filters on my vacuums. No more popped motors from plugged filters ! Now were selling new cars and i dont see much used but all the vacuums at our new shop have none either. Just figure id pop on to see if anybody has caught on to not even bothering to run them seems only some detailers and other car dealers. Saved us who knows how many more vacuums by eliminating them all together. One of my old friends said thats impossible every vacuum needs a filter ! I replied i agree to disagree especially after going through about 2000.00 worth of vacuums before talking to a rep from a vacuum company and having him tell us to do it ! He knew no filter in existence would prevent our issues we were having.
Use a cyclone and you don’t go thru filters. The nylon in the hose is something I would ll be experimenting with. I have several rigid shop vacs I use with my wood working tools. These are installed in the location where the tool they have been used with. Having the cyclone (I’ve also used homemade cyclones, which aren’t worth the savings I hoped would be a benefit.) in-line has made it ossicle to use the filter without having to clean it for ages. The car (detailing) use shop vac isn’t an issue that I bother with a cyclone, but the nylon thing does make sense. Overall I think this video was useful.
I use a homemade cyclone at home to clean all the sawdust create cutting a lot of wood. It's a cast difference over going straight into my shopvac and clogging the filter every 30 mins. I took me a while to make one that works. Never able to do it with one 5 gal bucket. Need to do two. Cut off the top rim of one to fit into the other then just a couple PVC elbows and it works better than the cheap lid thing home Depot makes for $50.
Nice. Great idea with the bank robber mask...I mean lady's nylon lol. Puts all the bigger stuff in a handy bag and keeps the finer stuff from getting back out as much. 👍
In the trades, I need really fast and no dusty cleanups. Get a shop vac with good CFM like you say, but lift is a good measure of actual suction power in use....and yes, more peak amps usually mean a more commercial-sized power head. But.......buy shop vacs that take those liner bags that fill up the container. Almost nothing escapes through them, they're disposable and your motor will last longer with them. Not for liquid waste, of course. Otherwise, you're just doing extra work for yourself.
Wow, the tape on the vacuum is like putting a sharpie mark on top of the caulking gun nozzle so you can always know where the bottom angle for caulking is.
When I caught a video on using a pool sock filter. Super cheap and can handle water/moisture as they are meant for pool. I couldn't believe the change in power and because I was using the wet filter that it came with there was more crap blowing out than in using that so just using a pool sock had changed my detail cleaning quality since.
Exactly! Vacuum bags are kinda pricey but saves you from cleaning extra mess. I dump the dirt out of the bags & reuse them several times before they crater. I might try the woman's nylon hose trick also.
@@garyalensr sorry, there are bags for Shopvacs...at least mine does based upon a search online...I bought some and they worked pretty well...less mess with the bag inside.
That tape on the top side near the tiny little power switch all the way down the side of the machine helping you find OFF for that interruption or a well distinguished power switch closer to you .
David, When the pantyhose is attached on the hose, won't it get plugged up quickly when you vacuum larger items like saw dust, pieces of drywall, dirt ??
a lot of the point of the little pantyhose on the end of the hose fitting, is for when you do a small job like cleaning out your car. If you do a small job, it puts dirt from that one little task, that one sock worth of pantyhose And then you throw away that one little fist size pantyhose of dirt You don't wait till it gets full you just throw it away when that job is over and that helps to keep the rest of your canister cleaner and empty. but if you're doing a really really big job like shop vacuum from building furniture or something that's going to collect a lot of dust, there'd be less point in the little sock on the end of the hose.
Absolutely got to do this will save so much work. RU-vid is doing it again. If you dislike something your going to have to click DISLIKE and then leave a comment or no one will see it was disliked.
Thanks for the tips. One question: why do you feel cfm is much more important than sealed suction? I'm sure it depends on the job, but IME vacuuming gutters suction is more important. My Ridgid vac with about 190CFM and roughly 50 in of WC suction performed ok, while my Dewalt Vac with 110cfm and 80 inWC suction performed significantly better. I'm curious if you have an opinion? Thanks for the Video!
It does, but if you don't need enough suction to pull the paint off the car, why not keep the noise a good distance away? I have 4, sometimes 5 sections of hose on my 16 gallon Craftsman. It works great. Before and after installing carpeting, I put the vac outside via a sliding glass door. The noise is outside and I can vacuum a large room. Some day I ought to measure the drop with a vacuum gauge. I know it's there, just don't know how much.
I hate it when little rocks or pebbles won’t go all the way up the hose. If they would manufacture a hose that was smooth on the inside instead of ribbed I think that would help. Possibly even allow for better air flow.
For the amount of use that vacuum gets used you’d just be better off getting a Henry Hoover off of Amazon they are a little expensive but they’ll last you years if you do with the instruction manual says on how to take care of them, and tell the wife I really love her Tesla including the color
Ok but how the heck did the nylon sack wind up inside the canister? Did you put it in there? Or did it come off halfways through the vacuuming and therefore make this whole process a fail? And why cut the nylon in half?
Samuelfish, it is white magic!! Actually, it works excellently if you try it. Do you have a shop vac?? When you disconnect the hose, the filter nylon is released and stays inside the canister. cheers David
So first off, you should just buy bags for your shop vac instead of stockings that keep the dirt in your hose, second You’ll be putting a lot more stress on the shop vac’s motor with a hose that long, not to mention it won’t be working as efficiently as it should.
Pro tip. If youyusethe correct bags made for your rigid vac or shop vac, you'll almost never have to clean your filter. Also if you vacume liquid, remove your filter and bag. your filters and bags aren't supposed to get wet. Ridgid vacuums have a floating plug (within the filter when it's installed, that's the black thing that slides up and down) that plug is designed to float up with the liquid when the vacuum gets too full and blocked the exit Port so you don't spray liquid out the exhaust all over everything. I Actually use my Ridgid vacuum to clean out gutters on people's houses.
