Manly Garage Vacuum Cleaner?

[~SlideWays~]

I need a vacuum cleaner that will handle metal dust, swarf, wood dust etc etc.

I've got an old bagless Electrolux and its pathetic, the filter lasts about 30sec and then it has no suction.

Are there garage orientated vacuum cleaners that will actually work?

[1I1]

[MAC_HATER]

^^ makes it fun

then you get yelled at because 15 minutes later you are just finding shit to blow about the place and making a mess worse than the one you just cleaned up D:

[~SlideWays~]

But that just makes metal dust clouds, or even worse rust clouds, which cover EVERYTHING!

[whynot]

I spent 60 bucks at bunnings on a cheap shop vac. You just bang out the filter when it slows down and it's good as new again. The old man uses one as dust extraction on his diy sand blaster cabinet and I hooked one up to the orbital sander and sanded 2 cars. Both still working fine. I noticed the suction dropping off after about 15 min on the sander and you can imagine how well paint dust would block a filter.

[thegreatestben]

I've got a stihl SE61 that I use alot for cleaning up renovation work so nails, gib dust, wood shavings, dirt, concrete etc.

Do recommend.

[Bling]

I have a "Supervac", which I think was from Repco for ~$99 on special. It works great, does wet and dry from memory. I've used to the vacuum the house before too, and the capacity means you don't have to empty it all that often.

[Townace]

Cheap and cheerful wet/dry workshop vac from bunnings or similar works a treat.
I run an old speaker magnet in the bottom of mine to grab the metal filings and stop them doing any damgage should the filter rip or similar

[MrOizo]

The Vac you have will be fine once you make one of these.

Road Cone Dust Separator:

[~SlideWays~]

The Vac you have will be fine once you make one of these.

Road Cone Dust Separator:

This looks interesting!

Also the magnet is a good idea

Failing that I'll look at getting a bunnings one.

Cheers guys.

[85AW20v]

The Vac you have will be fine once you make one of these.

Road Cone Dust Separator:

Just need to factor in the waterblaster in the background and you'll have nice clean dust!!

[Timmo]