RE: [DIY] Water Level Indicator for a Shop Vac?

 

I would think just balancing the top part of your shop vac across something like two saw horses would be an easy way to test if it will still work?

 

 

 

From: DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com [mailto:DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Jerry Hnidy
Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2012 8:47 AM
To: DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [DIY] Water Level Indicator for a Shop Vac?

 

 

This will be interesting.  I have considered running my shop vac without the plastic bucket that it sits in.  Then it will never fill up.  As long as I set the thing someplace where the water will not be a concern I don't see why I cannot build a wooden frame that would allow the vac to just pour the water onto the ground.  If you drill a small hole in the side of your "pail" and that makes something fail then my idea will never work.  Please let me know if you have any success with this plan.

Google Jers Tablet
Woodhaven, MI

On Oct 7, 2012 8:38 AM, "Aki" <01dyna@gmail.com> wrote:

 

Ok, this may sound a little strange but I'll toss it out there.

I have a 16 gal Shop Vac with an auto pump that pumps out the water via a garden hose as the vac starts to fill up.

I use it to help drain our hot tub and it works great.  The only problem is, the suction is much faster than the pump

that pumps out the water so it fills up and shuts off before the pump can drain the vac.

What I do now is try and time it to so that I pull the suction hose out of the water before it completely fills up to allow

the pump to catch up.  A major pain since I'm not always accurate.

What I'm thinking of doing is drilling a small hole into the side of the vac and putting a small plastic tube along the outside

to act as a water level indicator.  But before I do that, I don't know if it'll work on a vacuum and I may compromise the

suction by doing so.

Anyone ever do this or know of any shop vac type of device that has this from the factory?  I would think there's a valid

reason that manufacturers don't have this on wet/dry vacs although it sure would be handy.  I searched on the web and

didn't see anything specific to doing this.

-aki

 

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