Does anyone have any tips for vacuuming plaster dust? I have to shake out the filter every few minutes and it is a bit of a pain.
I tried putting a stocking over the filter but the dust goes straight through.
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Does anyone have any tips for vacuuming plaster dust? I have to shake out the filter every few minutes and it is a bit of a pain.
I tried putting a stocking over the filter but the dust goes straight through.
You're s'posed to use plain stockings, not fish-net... :wink:
Did you try wetting it (the stocking) first? Still a PITA every few minutes, but easier to change the stocking than strip the vaccy.
I put a few litres of water in the unit but this only took about 30 secs to get a white skin on it. Then I had the same problem again. Oh well, I'll just put up with it I guess. Was just hoping there may be a simple fix.Quote:
Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!!
Groggy,
did a job at someone's place once, cutting new doorways through gyprock walls. Asked to borrow a broom plus dustpan and brush as I'd forgotten mine. Was told to just use the vacuum cleaner instead. The vacuum cleaner expired the day after I used it. When the owners took it in for service they were told that plaster dust was absolutely the worst thing you could put through a vacuum cleaner and was almost guaranteed to kill a vac. You have been warned.
Mick
Just a thought: you have a Triton dust-bucket, don't you?
If that doesn't work either, it might be worthwhile half filling it with water and taping a length of pipe to the inside of the inlet, running to just under the water? (Hmmm... I wonder what the record is for the world's biggest bong? :D)
Wish I'd known that when I was trying to kill my 1950's Electrolux so I could get a shop vac - darn thing never did die :(.Quote:
Originally Posted by journeyman Mick
I'm using a Karcher shop-vac so hopefully it will survive. The filter clogs up and I can't see any dust build up past the filter when I clean it.
Reminds me of a story of a cleaner with a back-pack vac who sucked up a bunch of carbon dust from around a photocopier. It arced and sparked and flames came from the unit, she had to rip it off and run for it. Dunno if it's true or rumour, but it would have been a giggle to see.
I take up most of the dust with a dust pan and brush and then use the triton dustbucket on my Arlec wet and dry dust extractor. Helps to stop the vacuum occasionally and give the bucket a few raps on the ground to drop the dust.
Another bad thing for vacuums is using them to collect the dust from angle grinding granite benchtops :o The dust is so hot that it melted my poor old volta's exhaust and goodness knows what inside.
Cheers
Michael
Why or how are you making the dust?Quote:
Originally Posted by Groggy
Al :?
Sanding the plaster that he's been doing, Al :wink::?
Need a small cyclone I reckon, Greg. :)
If so.........Quote:
Originally Posted by scooter
Not that Im a plasterer, but the technique is wrong.
There shouldnt be too much, if any sanding.
I know a plaster who never sands.
Al :-
Probably not uncommon for newbie plastering
I dunno 'bout sanding, but I have a beggar of a time blowing it out of my power-plane. [sigh]
Yeah, but Al, I don't have a painter I can leave that job for.:DQuote:
Originally Posted by ozwinner
I've used the triton bucket for this as well, with regular trips outside to bang the filter clean, bugger of a job regardless.
By never, I mean he does the job with the trowel in such a way that sanding is unnecessary.Quote:
Originally Posted by Groggy
Al :D