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Post by chippie on May 6, 2023 16:50:14 GMT 1
I just broke my vac cleaner using it on my sand blasting cabinet....the fan has decided to shed its blades...
Any recommendations for a new one? Dont want to spend the earth...
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Post by Joepublic on May 6, 2023 17:28:40 GMT 1
More info on home diy blast cab please  Henry, carboot tomorrow? |
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Post by chippie on May 6, 2023 18:46:38 GMT 1
Sorry JP, was your post a question about my blasting cab or something else?
My cabinet is similar to the bench to offering from machine mart, I use a Wolf compressor, 100l tank, 3hp motor 14cfm pump..
I’m using the original blasting gun with crushed glass as media.
Tbh, using the vac cleaner to draw off the dust is a bit overkill….really needs less suction more air flow to get rid of the dust…
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Post by Joepublic on May 6, 2023 21:09:42 GMT 1
Sorry JP, was your post a question about my blasting cab or something else? My cabinet is similar to the bench to offering from machine mart, I use a Wolf compressor, 100l tank, 3hp motor 14cfm pump.. I’m using the original blasting gun with crushed glass as media. Tbh, using the vac cleaner to draw off the dust is a bit overkill….really needs less suction more air flow to get rid of the dust… I've always wanted the ability to home blast, my ancient Clarke 150 PSI / 8CFM compressor won't have the capacity? |
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Post by chippie on May 6, 2023 22:07:25 GMT 1
I’m no expert but I’d say it won’t cope with the air demand…
There are plenty of threads on forums about blasting cabs and compressor sizing…
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Post by remmington on May 7, 2023 7:08:39 GMT 1
More info on home diy blast cab please Henry, carboot tomorrow? We got a collection of these Henry hoovers. One upstairs/one downstairs/one in the garage at home to hoover cars out - I even got one up the workshop for the same job. Some of them must be decades old now - they done some hard work - we never killed one yet! |
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Post by chippie on May 7, 2023 7:53:02 GMT 1
Ditto…we’ll not quite….we had a Vax wet n dry vac which was useless…Bought a George and is great…use for the house and cleaning the cars…Agewise it’s got to be 20-30 yrs old….only thing I’ve ever done to it is change the mains lead..
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Post by Joepublic on May 7, 2023 8:09:04 GMT 1
We're on our third, the first 2 failed in warranty, returned the first one to Homebase, refund / repurchase with new 2 year warranty - in the mean time the price had dropped, so we go t £20 refund too. Same again with the second one, £15 refund. They never even plugged them in - I was embarrassed tbh.
I've always been on the understanding the 150L 8CFM set up was the max for domestic power supply?
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Post by remmington on May 7, 2023 8:11:48 GMT 1
Ditto…we’ll not quite….we had a Vax wet n dry vac which was useless…Bought a George and is great…use for the house and cleaning the cars…Agewise it’s got to be 20-30 yrs old….only thing I’ve ever done to it is change the mains lead.. I have stripped and cleaned out a few of them over the years - but I can't recall ever buying any spare parts - except the crevice tool that goes on the end of the pipes - these are dirt cheap off eBay. Most of ours have washable cotton bags in them as well - which makes them cheap for consumables as well. Filters blow out with an airline. Who makes these Henry/Hetty hoovers? Yeah we got a pink one "which is girl". Numatic? Never owned a wetvac - my Mother got some orange Vax type thing - I have borrowed it - but it not allot of good to be honest. |
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Post by chippie on May 7, 2023 8:56:38 GMT 1
I've always been on the understanding the 150L 8CFM set up was the max for domestic power supply? I have to run my compressor from the house via a hd extension lead,coz the feed to the garage is backed by a 16A mcb….and even though the garage has its own consumer unit, the sockets are on a radial cct. with a 16A mcb which trips if I run the compressor on it… Remmi, the Hetty/Henry/George vacs are indeed made by Numatic….and the Vax we had sounds like the one you refer to…l horrible orange thing… |
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Post by upkeep on May 7, 2023 11:09:13 GMT 1
We have a vacuum bolted to our cabinet cost something like 300 quid but with all these things no spares back up and all we need is a filter. as for general Lab tidying we use Henrys great for clearing glass after an impact
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Post by remmington on May 7, 2023 13:27:42 GMT 1
I've always been on the understanding the 150L 8CFM set up was the max for domestic power supply? I have to run my compressor from the house via a hd extension lead,coz the feed to the garage is backed by a 16A mcb….and even though the garage has its own consumer unit, the sockets are on a radial cct. with a 16A mcb which trips if I run the compressor on it… Remmi, the Hetty/Henry/George vacs are indeed made by Numatic….and the Vax we had sounds like the one you refer to…l horrible orange thing… I seen bigger "Numatic" hoovers used in airport lounges as I been waiting for flights - suffered delays! Numatic must be a good industrial maker...? |
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Post by valhalla on May 7, 2023 22:53:39 GMT 1
I seen bigger "Numatic" hoovers used in airport lounges as I been waiting for flights - suffered delays! Numatic must be a good industrial maker...?They must be......I was using them in an industrial capacity around 40years ago. They were the only machine that the company I worked-for would buy; we had 100's, and they must have been good, because the girls and women that used them (mostly) had no mechanical sympathy. We only had one problem with those early machines (fixed on later Numatic's) which was the cord-storage, which was a manual system in those days. Because the cord was wound-up around a couple of prongs, we had to disable the feature that allowed the bundle of cable to be "quick-ejected" off those prongs, otherwise the cord ended-up like a toffee-twist after a couple of weeks.
We have a Henry in the shop, and I bought it in 2008 - still going strong, and used to back-up our domestic Dysons everytime they go wrong, which is fairly frequently.....
EDIT: Forgot to mention, chippie, a dodge I have used many a time : Find an old Dyson in the local tip (you won't have to look far) and recover the cyclone off it. Run your vacuum-cleaner via that cyclone on the old Dyson, and that will pre-filter the dust and sharp debris before it goes through your precious new machine, and at-least save you the cost of a new bag every 5minutes or so.  |
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