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Vacuum project #2


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Designed my adapter chute fabricated it. The chute does have a curved diverter plate inside the chute to up feed clippings toward chute. My initial test run was about 20 minutes sucking up wet leaves. Worked well, I'm sure some gremlins will pop as I use it more. 

Now to decide what to do for my trailer collection portion of the project 

Here a few pics of the vacuum work I have done, hope you enjoy, I had a great time fabrication it up.

THanks TOm

 

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Very nice fabrication work. Did you change blades to a high lift design in order to get enough push on the clippings to lift them into the rear bags?

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It does have higher left blades on it. The vacuum seems to pull debris out of chute nicely. 

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The vac seems to be quite powerful. I had a boot built from my cardboard mockup (doesn't have a flow diverter in it) and still works well.  

Wish I was as handy as Thomas.  The boot I had built by a local  HVAC shop cost me about $55.00, but the vac I bought was worthless without it!

 

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12 hours ago, macallis180 said:

The vac seems to be quite powerful. I had a boot built from my cardboard mockup (doesn't have a flow diverter in it) and still works well.  

Wish I was as handy as Thomas.  The boot I had built by a local  HVAC shop cost me about $55.00, but the vac I bought was worthless without it!

 

Send it over to Lloyd. ..he lives for this kind of stuff!9_9

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On 1/2/2019 at 9:41 AM, thmsdoyle said:

It does have higher left blades on it. The vacuum seems to pull debris out of chute nicely. 

What are your sources for high-lift, left-hand-discharge blades???

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