vacuum cleaner outlet filter

[mbshop]

My wife is concerned when I use the small shop vac inside the house about the dust that may be coming out the exit exhaust port. I was thinking of getting a fitting and attaching a piece of nylon legging to it.
any other ideas ? Thanks !

 

[kctyphoon]

Buy the shop vac bags.. there's already 2 filters inside some vacs, at least one in all of them.

You can try getting one of those "mufflers" that use use foam at the outlet to try and muffle the sound, but I tried one years ago on my bigger vac and I wanna say it effects the suction a bit. I'd think anything that's inhibiting exhaust flow would do the same for its intake as well.

Extreme measures - get a 2 stage or 3 stage hepa vac. But that's really going overboard.

Heres a muffler attachment, but you can walk into hd and just buy one also last I've seen.
https://www.searspartsdirect.com/pa...ceVUDwHS17MyPS5BRVO1gf3kRZs2pOWwaApGyEALw_wcB

 

[Wamsutta]

What kind of shop vacuum is it? I like the round pleated filters that the Ridgid vacuums have; however, I'll leave the filter off when using the vacuum outside.

 

[lilredex]

I attached a sawdust bag from an old delta chop saw, to the exhaust of our central vac. It gets almost all of those dust particles it was spitting out.

 

[Bluevista]

Put another hose on the exhaust and shove it out the window.

I use a Sand Kleen filter/ bucket water filter for drywall sanding, it filters the dust out before it gets to the vacuum filter.

Here's a deal that turns the vacuum tank into a water filter, wet/dry vacs only.

http://www.instructables.com/id/5-Drywall-Dust-Water-Filter-Gadget-for-Shop-Vacuum/

 

[derosa]

With just the hepa filter I don't think anything comes out the exhaust port of my Ridgid, I use the basic bags and nothing seems to get through. Bags are nice for making the filter last a long time and ease of emptying it. It's what I used as the house vac till I splurged on a Kirby.

 

[kctyphoon]

With just the hepa filter I don't think anything comes out the exhaust port of my Ridgid, I use the basic bags and nothing seems to get through. Bags are nice for making the filter last a long time and ease of emptying it. It's what I used as the house vac till I splurged on a Kirby.

Lol.. I worked for Kirby for about 3 days a LONG time ago.. good machines, but heavy and basically unchanged for decades.. I have one I don't use anymore. My new love is an upright Miele that does much better keeping that vac smell out of the house when you have pets..

Once I saw how Kirby uses their salesman as prey, I was outta there.. their entire sales pitch was a scam back then.. good machine, predatory practices..

 

[mbshop]

It is just a 2.5 gal portable. The outlet filter would just be used occasionally when the wife doesn't want mouse poop and such in her vac. I have to do it. Creeps her out.

 

[trekgod3]

https://www.homedepot.com/p/RIDGID-2-1-2-in-Muffler-Diffuser-for-RIDGID-Wet-Dry-Vacs-VT2525/100037235

 

[Fretters]

My wife is concerned when I use the small shop vac inside the house about the dust that may be coming out the exit exhaust port. I was thinking of getting a fitting and attaching a piece of nylon legging to it.
Any other ideas ? Thanks !

Get a less fussy wife?

 

[mbshop]

Ha ha ! Naw, she is an outstanding wife.

 

[the gypsy]

Get the Dust Deputy or the Cyclone it helps to keep your filters inside the vacuum clean from any build up making it more effective.

 

[apollo11]

Tell her to go make lunch

 

[saffalice]

My wife is concerned when I use the small shop vac inside the house about the dust that may be coming out the exit exhaust port. I was thinking of getting a fitting and attaching a piece of nylon legging to it.
any other ideas ? Thanks !

Try to buy HEPA-carbon fiber piece or HEPA cartridge and work out a form and size that you need. I did that same thing when i lived back in russia and i found out that my vacuum was so old they've stopped to sell filters for it.
Or just buy a HEPA vacuum cleaner, i have such one now, forgot about those old out-blowing vacuums at all.