I am hooking the dust outlet to a shop vac and am getting shocked. How do you recommend avoiding this?
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What you are experiencing, Peter, is static electricity. Basically you have tiny particles carrying a charge, rubbing against a surface, building a charge by friction. A friend of mine touched a metal piece of furniture behind our shop vac, and got a nice small shock - and that was in Austin, which is not too dry. My experience with static electricity is that it is worst in dry and cold places, wintertime being it. Alas, in theory there should be a way to ground, but I have little experience, let me see... Aha, searching the internet for shop vac static discharge there are several suggestions - I am not allowed to post links here, so you'll have to search by yourself. What you are experiencing, Peter, is static electricity. Basically you have tiny particles carrying a charge, rubbing against a surface, building a charge by friction. A friend of mine touched a metal piece of furniture behind our shop vac, and got a nice small shock - and that was in Austin, which is not too dry. My experience with static electricity is that it is worst in dry and cold places, wintertime being it. Alas, in theory there should be a way to ground, but I have little experience, let me see... Aha, searching the internet for shop vac static discharge there are several... » Read More What you are experiencing, Peter, is static electricity. Basically you have tiny particles carrying a charge, rubbing against a surface, building a charge by friction. A friend of mine touched a metal piece of furniture behind our shop vac, and got a nice small shock - and that was in Austin, which is not too dry. My experience with static electricity is that it is worst in dry and cold places, wintertime being it. Alas, in theory there should be a way to ground, but I have little experience, let me see... Aha, searching the internet for shop vac static discharge there are several suggestions - I am not allowed to post links here, so you'll have to search by yourself. « Show Less
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Hi Peter, I can't see any reason to get shocked other than the air and dry dust particles flying through the hose will create static electricity. When we use our wood planer we hook up the big dust collector and attach a grounding wire from the thick hose to the ground and it keeps us from getting shocked whenever we touch it. I've seen serious arcs of electricity come off of it when we forgot to hook it up. The wire only needs to be attached to the big collection hose. I've never tried it with a sander but I think the same principal applies.
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Yes you are right. I also received some nasty jolts. This is one of the reasons I switched back to the filter canister. I do know that Bausch does make an anti-static 16 ft dust hose for the shop vac. It's not cheep but hopefully not shocking. I have not tried it yet. Good luck. Jeff
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Hold onto the sander and touch the sander to the object that you're trying to connect to. That should discharge any static electricity.
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The only way is to rap a ground wire around the hose and ground it at the vacume. It is caused by static charge from the dust particles moving through the plastic hose.
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What you are experiencing, Peter, is static electricity. Basically you have tiny particles carrying a charge, rubbing against a surface, building a charge by friction. A friend of mine touched a metal piece of furniture behind our shop vac, and got a nice small shock - and that was in Austin, which is not too dry. My experience with static electricity is that it is worst in dry and cold places, wintertime being it. Alas, in theory there should be a way to ground, but I have little experience, let me see... Aha, searching the internet for shop vac static discharge there are several suggestions - I am not allowed to post links here, so you'll have to search by yourself.
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Where exactly are you feeling the shock, and is it a one-time or repetitive jolt or continuous? If one-time or repetitive, most likely the shock you feel is electrostatic charge generated by the friction of dust on the wall of the shop vac hose. There are ways of modifying the hose to ground the charge, which would solve the problem. If the shock is continuous, there may be an electrical fault in one of the appliances, in which case you'd probably be receiving a constant shock. I'd ask the shop vac manufacturer and Bosch for advice.
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FB,I'm not sure that I read your reply correctly, but the top outlet on the DD goes to your vacuum and the side outlet on the DD connects to the tube you use for collecting dust. Check out these videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dust+deputy+cycloneJames
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Yes. Remove the dust bag and push on the shop vac hose. You,ll see the connection for the hose when you remove the dust bag. The dust bag is not very good but bettr than nothing.
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i would be very careful with the sander. it can eat your hand. for safety i would not put shop vac on it.. imo
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I hooked up a small shop vac to the outlet. The bags are ok, but vac works better.
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No, but I wouldn't do it. I broke a Hoover that way once. Dust was so fine it got all inside it despite the bag. Use a shop vac.
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Just make sure you plug into into a ground fault-protected outlet inside (like in your kitchen or bathrooms). Otherwise you may subject yourself to a significant, if not fatal, shock!
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absolutely, regular house vacuum does just fine, a shop vac would also have no problems. It's just pulling air out.
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It depends on how your vac is wired. It's designed to turn on upon insertion.
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If you are using a regular shop vacuum, you have too much suction. It's best to use a vac with adjustable power (Bosch, festool, fein, et al) and turn it all the way down. Barring that, you could try drilling holes in the tool end of vac hose until the suction is gentler.
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I simply detach my dust bag and attach my shop vac to that port and it seems to get a lot of the dust but not totally. I have only used y smaller shop vac not my big one but I'm sure it will pull in the dust
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probably, but not advisable. Better to use a pump or you can use a shop vac with the setting on 'blow'.
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There is a sonicrafter accessory called a "Dust Extraction Adapter", that hooks up to a shop vac. My guess the adapter screws into the holes. The adapter didn't have very good reviews, so I passed on buying one.
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I stuck my electric leaf blower in the vent pipe and used the brush from the outside, every few feet I fed it in, then I would pull it out to let the lint out. I was amazed at how much lint was in there
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I agree with the previous comment in saying there is something larger stuck in the pipe. I have had some success at clearing a pipe by reversing the suction using a shop vac. Meaning, hook a shop vac hose up to the wall outlet of the central vac. You probably have to use some duct tape to seal that connection then turning on the shop vac. If you're lucky you may suck the clog backwards into the shop vac. I've also used an electricians "fish tape" with some success, depending on where the clog is located. Good luck.
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That's a drawback to the vacuum. I noticed that when I plugged in the vacuum and the grinder to the same residential circuit, it blew the breaker. The vacuum is well worth the investment and performs as Makita claims, even with fine concrete dust. I did not mind walking over and turning off the unit. An isolated 30 amp circuit should work ok.
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I would thing not, it's a 110 plug and says it on back! You could probably plug into a 20 vac transformer!