helped needed sealing the vac for my blasting media!!!

[timothy thorpe]

hi guys. i almost have my shop completely the way i needed it to be..... last problem is the media coming out the vac. i am using very fine glass bead and have a small shop vac with a fine filter on it. it seems it comes out the back exhust hole. some help would be great!


thanks

[Sasquatch]

Rig up a shop vac with the either the blue paper filter over the foam or with the new (and probably better) air-cleaner baffle type filter, and use the high-efficiency contractor grade bags as well. They are yellow and feel almost like cloth as opposed to the white papery filter bags.

I run a couple 6 gallon shop vacs, one in the shop, one for on-site purposes, and I cannot ever risk spitting shit out the port in someone's million dollar living room, so I run the baffle filter and the yellow bag all the time. Always 100% effective, they are quite good.

[timothy thorpe]

ok thanks. yes i have the cloth filter over the the foam.. the baffle bag seals the inside? if so that makes sense!!! so the media is contained in the bag and not sitting on the bottom of the vac tube bottom

[Sasquatch]

Yup. Makes cleanout far easier too, cuz stuff isn't loose in the canister. You'll never run a shop vac without the bag again - it's that much better.

[timothy thorpe]

ok great..wow there is so much to learn besides pipe making and good pictures....dam what did i get into!! kidding. i have been doing it since 2006 really

[timothy thorpe]

actually would that prevent the media from coming out the back exhaust? that has to be were its coming out of. its really fine stuff

[KurtHuhn]

You need to get the pleated filter for your shop vac.
http://www.shopvac.com/shopvac-accessor ... lters.aspx

I run mine in my blasting shed without the bag (no real reason) and it is 99% effective. With a fine filter bag it would be 100%.
http://www.shopvac.com/shopvac-accessor ... wders.aspx

[timothy thorpe]

thanks kurt..i have emailed you as well about the chuck . so i have the small blue shop vac from lowes. were would that bag go?

[Sasquatch]

The fine filter bag has a large active surface area and won't plug up, and it basically means that the pleated filter stays clean for a long, long time. I use these bags vaccuuming drywall repairs - ultra fine dust. The bags are for Shop-vac brand shopvacs. They attach right at the opening where the hose goes.

[timothy thorpe]

thanks for your help..for some reason i am not sure about something...could you chat for 5 min..that would be great!! 856-952-5859 thanks

[Sasquatch]

http://www.shopvac.ca/shopvac-accessori ... lters.aspx

I called but there was no one home. It was very sad.

[timothy thorpe]

thanks.. i called you back..was at the gym

[timothy thorpe]

ok so here is another dump question were does this bag hook up too! thanks

[Sasquatch]

Over the spout that comes into the cannister, or they slide into a little bracket and the hose punches through that.

[timothy thorpe]

ok.. i have to look..i did call you back thanks