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andyf:
Being a cheapskate, I use a 30 year old Electrolux cylinder vac, with a homemade push-on nozzle, like a crevice tool with a 90 degree bend in it to get into T-slots. The bodywork is now held together with chewing gum and string/coathanger wire but it still works. Being even more of a cheapskate, got tired of buying paper bags (getting hard to find for this model) so 5 years back I cut the sleeve off an old shirt and stapled/glued it to the cardboard fitment from a used paper bag. The open end of the sleeve has a clip on it, so it can be closed up again after the contents have been dumped.

Andy

modeng200023:
One thing that bothers me when using the shop vac to pick up swarf from the lathe and mill is the cutting oil that gets sucked up as well. When the pickup hose is hanging over the vac waiting for the next suck the cutting oil can drip back out onto the floor. I know I could put the end in a tray or something like that but what do other folk do about this, or perhaps it doesn't happen for them?

John

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