jorgeelizondom

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Hi,

I've been looking to get a new minivac for my shop. The one I have is powerful but has a small filter so it clogs with balsa dust real fast.

I want to know what you guys have. I dont want to spend more than $70 bucks on it.

bps

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I use a small wet/dry vac from the hardware. Two gallon tank and paper filter. Works fine and was about 30 dollars.
JEB

the-plumber

I have a 5 HP 12-gallon Ridgid vacuum which pulls through a whole-shop dust collector system. I put the vacuum in an enclosure on the back of the building shop so I don't have to listen to the beast howling along.

More than enough power to handle all the dust collection chores in the shop, except perhaps for capturing the very fine dust from sawing MDF, which I try not to do very often.

Somewhere around seventy bucks, IIRC.

Not "mini" by any stretch of the imagination, but the price is right and you'll never lack for vacuum. Whopping great filter in that thing.

I also use a whole shop powered air filter to capture the fine dust which evades the dust collection system.

I like a dust-free shop !

See the photo albums "Dust control" and "Large power tools" at [link=http://home.mindspring.com/~the-plumber]The House Of Balsa Dust[/link]