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Okay guys, I hang the equivalent of maybe a couple hundred sheets of dry wall in a year, and 80% of it is adjacent to existing living quarters. Since that pesky dust seems to travel through curtain walls too easily, I would like to pick up an inexpensive vacuum sander.
The biggest issue to me from what I’ve read is: is the Fein Turbo II or the DeWalt 792 actually significantly quieter than the rest of the shop-vac type units, or should I just accept the noise level of my older unit? By comparison, I would run a nailer off a small Thomas compressor in an occupied house, but any other unit I’ve heard so far ain’t cuttin’ it without a hose to the outside.
P.S. I saw the “spell-checked” version of this post, and boy was it incomprehensible! What the heck is a shop-Mac…
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I still say ya can't beat the sears craftsman. Models change, but a few years ago, I got the biggest one they had. It had a detachable blower. Got it home, plugged it in....and my ears started to bleed! Yeah, a little noisy. Took it back, and found a plug for a display unit. I plugged a few in and ran them in the store. The model that was just one step down was tolerable in sound. It's 4.25 HP, 12 gal. Thing about sears I like, the bigger hose. The 1 1/2 inch hoses still have you picking up or sweeping up alot of small offcuts. The sears is big enough to get most plaster chunks. I put the upgrade filter , from Tool Crib I think, on and the dust isn't a problem.
As it was, the first one, 16gal., would have been too wide to fight with thru doorways and cluttered sites, and too heavy to carry or dump. Jeff
*I have had a Fein vac for about 2 to 2 1/2 years now. While $230 to 250 may sound like a lot for a vac, it is not. I owned a Rigid $79 special for less than 24 hrs - see ears bleeding in above post. Took the Rigid back to HD and went and bought the Fein. It has great wheels, doesn't tip over, doesn't blow a big cloud of funky dust all over in some lady's house, a long 10'+ hose, and best of all, it has the tool-activated receptacle on it. Quiet, too. I have used it on drywall dust, sawdust, hooked it to the orbital sander, general clean-up, whatever. Wouldn't change a thing. Buy a Fein vac.
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Okay guys, I hang the equivalent of maybe a couple hundred sheets of dry wall in a year, and 80% of it is adjacent to existing living quarters. Since that pesky dust seems to travel through curtain walls too easily, I would like to pick up an inexpensive vacuum sander.
The biggest issue to me from what I've read is: is the Fein Turbo II or the DeWalt 792 actually significantly quieter than the rest of the shop-vac type units, or should I just accept the noise level of my older unit? By comparison, I would run a nailer off a small Thomas compressor in an occupied house, but any other unit I've heard so far ain't cuttin' it without a hose to the outside.
P.S. I saw the "spell-checked" version of this post, and boy was it incomprehensible! What the heck is a shop-Mac...