On Nov 18, 8:44 pm, HerHusband wrote:
My Shop Vac died on me in the middle of sanding some cabinets tonight, and
....
I do not have a dust collector. ..


Buy the Harbor Freight Tools Dust Collector instead, the shop vac you
described will run you nealry the cost of the HFT (possibly more!) put
it on wheels for the time being and put the uctwork for it on your
XMAS LIST.