ORIGINAL: JoeAirPort
Anyone take their shop VAC plastic hose and put it in a vise pointing straight up and cut their cowlings and CF stuff right above it?
I clamp the hose to the work bench and turn the work which ever way needed to get the grinder 'exhaust' pointed at the end of the hose. Makes for much less cleanup. I do that with whatever I'm cutting.
PS: Anyone wondering if I ever sucked a work piece into the shop vac, yes it just happened today. No biggy.
Vacuums and small parts mix all too well.
My shop has a dust collector system, and the 5 HP Ridgid 12-gallon vac driving the system is in an enclosure outside the back wall of the shop.
Very little noise. So little that I once closed up the shop with the vac still running. Next time out, no vac. Excess heat melted the brush holders.
You can't buy motor internals from Ridgid, the lowest sub-assembly you can buy is the complete motor. Since the motor was only about ten bucks less than a whole new vac, that was a no brainer.
I converted the old vac into a cyclone for the DC system.
Makes it a lot easier to rescue small parts that get kidnapped.