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Have you ever had a shop vac do this?
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Post# 239840   7/11/2013 at 22:15 (3,938 days old) by vacuumman206 ()        

I know it's a somewhat strange topic considering not many people pay attention to shop vacs even in the vacuum collecting scene, but I have the strangest problem with my shop vac. It's a mid 90's shop vac brand 16 gallon. Brought it to a friend's shop to help them with a flood. Took the paper filter out and of course left the foam one in. No less than 3 minutes of running it water was seeping and lightly spraying out the blower/exhaust port. I thought maybe a little water got sucked up into the fan and it would go away. But within a couple minutes of that it was nearly blowing more water out the exhaust than it was sucking up. It does not make sense. It's a wet dry vac that can't do wet pickups. I would almost venture to say it has so much suction that it sucks the water into the fan chamber before it even has a chance to collect in the drum. We had my friend's newer shop vac there and he didn't even have the foam filter in it and it was doing fine.

Post# 239878 , Reply# 1   7/12/2013 at 10:29 (3,937 days old) by bvac6 (Fort Wayne, Indiana)        
Ah Ha!

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My shop vac, a Dayton branded machine, did the exact same thing to me! There is a reversible "inlet" that a paper bag fits onto that can be changed to dry pickup or wet pickup. For wet pickup that inlet should have the opening facing downward, upward if you are using a paperbag. Sounds silly but it was the whole problem on my machine.

Post# 239890 , Reply# 2   7/12/2013 at 13:33 (3,937 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa)        

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Yep its the inlet deflector. It happens more often than you would think. I have a collection of "shopvacs" but not the actual brand( not available in SA)I love the original metal tank ones.

Post# 239891 , Reply# 3   7/12/2013 at 14:17 (3,937 days old) by vacuumman206 ()        

hmmm. I don't believe it has an inlet deflector. Probably fell off at some point so I guess this will continue to be a dry pickup only machine till I find an inlet, however hard that may be!

Post# 239958 , Reply# 4   7/13/2013 at 07:26 (3,937 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa)        

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You can,depending on the size of the tank for space, fit a 90deg pvc 40 or 50 mm water pipe bend. I have done that a few times


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