Digforcrystals
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Post by Digforcrystals on Apr 1, 2011 16:03:44 GMT -5
I have been wanting a wet/dry vac to clean out my saw but didnt want to shell out for the wet/dry vac. I didnt want to spend the time and money to make the attachment that was posted here to trap the oil and not ruin the wet/dry vac. I had thought of going to the flea market and maybe pick up a cheap used vac but never could seem to get down there on a weekend. I was searching online for a cheap vac and stumbled on this awesome thing : tinyurl.com/3f7xbquFrom a message board on some kind of craft site I saw a reference to a "buckethead" that just snaps onto a five gallon bucket. $20 and I have tried it and real happy!
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Post by johnjsgems on Apr 1, 2011 16:18:19 GMT -5
That's pretty neat. I've had several $20 wet/dry vacs but all were in the 1 gallon range. Convenient size, inconvenient capacity.
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Post by Digforcrystals on Apr 1, 2011 16:21:02 GMT -5
yeah, this can use any type of five gallon bucket provided that it doesnt have any holes in it. I can probably just detach the bucket, throw in some oil-dry, and the recycling center will probably accept it as regular waste.
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Post by tkrueger3 on Apr 1, 2011 22:30:34 GMT -5
Digforcrystals, do you just suck the used oil into the buckut directly using only the buckethead vac and its hose, or did you make an adapter of some sort? It looks to me like a really cost-effective solution for a non-engineer like myself!
Tom
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Post by quartz on Apr 1, 2011 22:39:04 GMT -5
Thanks for the tip, my old shop vac is making worn out noises when I shut it off, and the capacity and size is very suitable.
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Post by Digforcrystals on Apr 2, 2011 5:29:03 GMT -5
Hi, The whole process took about 5 minutes. I just took the "buckethead" out of the box, snapped it onto a used 5-gallon bucket that I got for free from the chinese buffet, and attached the suction hose that came with it and just sucked the oil up into the bucket. Since i have a 12 inch saw there was about 2 1/2 gallons of oil and sludge. The buckethead seemed to handle this well.
I am tickled at the convienence and low price of this. Only twenty bucks!
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Post by tkrueger3 on Apr 2, 2011 11:35:25 GMT -5
That seems like a neat solution to me - I'm heading for Home Depot today! Thanks for the info.
Tom
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Post by Rockoonz on Apr 2, 2011 23:25:45 GMT -5
You really should be using 2 buckets to keep rock snot out of the vacuum motor. Theres a posting on how to make one but I can't find it.
Lee
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Post by jakesrocks on Apr 2, 2011 23:48:30 GMT -5
Bummer. The nearest Home Depot is a 3 - 1/2 hour drive from me. One of those sure would come in handy, but at the price of gas, it's cheaper just to go to Menards and buy a small shop vac just for the saws.
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Post by Digforcrystals on Apr 3, 2011 6:13:40 GMT -5
You really should be using 2 buckets to keep rock snot out of the vacuum motor. Theres a posting on how to make one but I can't find it. Lee Yeah, I saw the neat deal posted on here to make a primary vacuum chamber so that the oil/sludge accumulates in the first bucket and leaves the wet/dry vac clean. But I used my saw for 8 months before having to clean it , so that probably means I wont have to clean it but once a year. If the bucket head holds up for three cleanings before blowing up , then the operation costs are pretty reasonable in my opinion for three years. This beats paying a hundred dollars for a good wet/vac plus more money and time to make the attachment bucket and then having to store all of this. That's the whole point in liking the $20 wet/vac that attaches to a disposable bucket. I suspect that the buckethead may actually hold up and run for a lot more than 3 years though!
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Post by quartz on Apr 3, 2011 10:35:26 GMT -5
To find Tony's [catmandewe] slab sucker, go to the bottom of the page, click on the proboards search, and put "slab saw sucker" in the box.
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Post by Digforcrystals on Apr 3, 2011 12:20:44 GMT -5
Here is the link to the slab sucker: forum.rocktumblinghobby.com/index.cgi?board=tips&action=display&thread=21533&page=1That's a great idea and I had that in mind to do but I just didnt have the time to go get the parts and I really didnt want to shell out the money for a good wet/dry vac. Plus, I dont have storage space for the two either. Anyone that already has a good wet/dry vac would probably want to make the attachment if they had the time.
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Post by Toad on Apr 3, 2011 15:46:02 GMT -5
Hi, The whole process took about 5 minutes. I just took the "buckethead" out of the box, snapped it onto a used 5-gallon bucket that I got for free from the chinese buffet, and attached the suction hose that came with it and just sucked the oil up into the bucket. LOL - totally off-topic, but that reminded me of what a friend of mine found when working with the health department. She was helping inspect a Chinese buffet restaurant. They went into the basement and found them mixing the ingredients for fried rice in 5 gallon buckets - they were using their arms to stir the rice... Eeewwwwww!!! :nono: Great find on the vac though, thanks for sharing.
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Post by Roller on Apr 3, 2011 23:34:14 GMT -5
wow I think this is just great!!!!!! . especially for those like me who apt live ... ! and dont have much storage room ...
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Post by chromenut on Apr 4, 2011 8:10:49 GMT -5
I gotta get me one of these, will work better than the big honking W/D vac I'm using now.
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Post by Hard Rock Cafe on Apr 4, 2011 12:33:03 GMT -5
Just an FYI if you decide to make a slab saw sucker: you don't really need to build much of anything, aside from cutting holes in the intermediate bucket. You can use standard shop vac attachments for the hose and nozzle.
If you wanted to salvage the oil from the bucket head, you could just pour it into a pair of stacked 5 gallon buckets (holes in the bottom of the top bucket and a paper sack to filter the oil as it drains into the bottom bucket).
Chuck
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