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Best vacuum cleaner for DIY?
In article . com,
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I get good results with a cyclone - would avoid diesoons though. Makes
a huge difference when doing dust creating work. One room I did
without it, place a mess, everywhere covered with dust. Another room
had it taped to the tool, most of the room didnt need any cleaning at
all.
Yes, I've also found that a cyclone is the only thing that works
for a number of tools which produce copious fine dust. It's quite
obvious really -- you need something that doesn't store the trapped
dust in the main airflow or it will either quickly stop filtering,
or it's not trapping the dust in the first place. I use a Dyson,
and knowing they're fragile, I'm very careful not to knock it
around, and it's been doing a fine job for about 7 years now as
a workshop tool, often coupled up directly to power tools.
It is unfortunate that no one produces portable workshop cyclones.
The reason for this is Dyson owns all the patents on making
small cyclones work, and either he has to licence them to someone
to build workshop versions, or he has to do it himself, neither
of which seem to have happened. I suspect the market is too small
to fund even a fraction of the development work which Dyson does
from his domestic sales. There used to be a ruggedised DC04
(looks identical, but is made from a different plastic),
but it cost a fortune.
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Andrew Gabriel
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