Double check your vacuum! lol~

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Hey guys,

So I was working the other day and I had weird low/high spots on my vacuum table while carving a piece of acrylic, and I just let it go and made it deeper to hit the low bits. I just got done carving up some HDPE and im trying to suck it up (same vacuum mind you) and it is sucking in a bad way. I take it outside and open it and it literally floods out. After sweeping and putting it into a bag I am amazed I did not burn it out.

So short story shorter; Make sure you check your equipment often! This is just a cheap 20 dollar shopvac but it still would have been shitty for it to go out on my in the middle of a carve.

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Save yourself a lot of cussing, man, and pick up a Dust Deputy! It’ll save you hours of filter-scraping, and make it a lot easier to see when your container is getting full. :slight_smile:

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I love my dust deputy! Though it does make a lot of static electricity, probably even worse when cutting HDPE.
If I had the cash I would get the metal version and ground it. As it is, running a dust collection ground line inside the vac tube is on my too do list.

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It DOES build up the static like crazy, no joke!

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Prolly will end up doing that!

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It’s worth every nickle, man!