Does anyone have a link to a page with better
resolution? Failing that, are back issues of the
magazine available?
Dennis Vogel
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Dennis Vogel
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Honestly, what's so hard to read about the small picture? Build a box
that fits your shop vac, and pop 2 holes it. Don't forget the door and
somekind of latch. Fill the inside with carpet. They probably didn't
give dimensions because shop vacs vary so greatly in size.
Charles.
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The best way to quite a shop vac it to put it into a box. I built a 30"
cubical box with a door and latch on one side, put the cube on casters,
lined the inside of the cube with carpet scraps, drilled a hole for the
vaccum hose to exit the box and drilled 4 smaller holes (about 1.5" in
diameter) along the back bottom edge of the box for ventilation and to allow
the vaccums exhaust streem to exit the box. The reduction in noise from the
vaccum is remarkable. I do not have any sound level measurements but, I can
talk or listen to the radio at normal sound levels with the vaccum running.
This solution works!!! I often forget to turn the vaccum off after I have
been using it for a long period of time at my workbench because it runs so
quitely. It does not degrade the peformance of the shop vaccum or shorten
its expected operating life.
The cube being on casters gives me another table top surface to place other
tools on. The cube is larger than the size of many shop vaccums. When the
current vaccum that I have dies( its an old Sears), I should not have much
trouble replaceing it with a new one even if the new ones change shape
somewhat. Any shop vaccum will do for a replacement as long as it will fit
easily through the door. Additionally, I have purchased a long vaccum hose
and this miminizes the amount of movement I need to do with the cubical box
when I am using the vaccum to clean up the shop floor.
I used 3'4" birch laminated MDF plywood to construct the cube out of. I
think you would want to use 3/4" material since the mass of the material
will assist in reducing the noise levels of the vaccum
"C Wood" <cdotrd...@verizondotnet.removeme> wrote in message
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Well, they did give dimensions but it wasn't just dimensions.
There was some text that explained certain construction
details that couldn't be read either. I realize the dimensions
might vary for a specific vac. I just want to see the original.
Dennis Vogel
Dennis Vogel
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hth
jay
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