On 13/02/2021 09:35, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
That is correct, we had one branded Vactric like this. You just took the
filter off the back end and you had a screw thread you could attach things
too. Its not done these days, for whatever reason. Most are crammed full of
filters which get clogged up and need a good wash or replacing every so
often.
Brian

My parents had a cylinder vac when I was a toddler and passed it on to
me when I bought a house. It must have been over 30 years old when it
gave up (it had been running for years with two blades missing from one
of its impellers - one I removed to balance it up when it lost one).

That vac had the same hose fitting on each end, so switching it to blow
just meant pulling the hose from one end (pull back the release ring and
it just came out) and putting it in the other end, so it took just a
couple of seconds.

No filters to remove - it just had a cloth bag.

Blow was mainly used by us to try and shift something that was stuck in
the hose, but it was actually intended for air powered tools - such as
the spray gun that could be attached to the hose.