Wet or Dry Vac.

Texasmark1

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I have a Rigid hand carried, portable, wet dry vac, plastic canister with a lid and contained therein are all the rest of the parts needed to make it work. One is a large paper, removable filter. I never used it in the "wet" mode.

What is the procedure and what do you expect when using wet? I assume the filter comes out so you have no filtration, just the ability to suck up water which hits the walls of the bottom half and gravity keeps most of it there......... Do you get a water/humid type mist out the exhaust? If in a confined area (a cellar) that probably isn't good for your lungs with mold present. Then thinking about scheduling, you come in with the diluted Clorox spray and let it do it's job all the while the water, half an inch probably across the entire floor, just sits there soaking into things and hopefully not making more mold.

Don't think coming in initially and attempting to get the water out then go after the mold. An option would be spray one day and come back the next day with the vac and I have an old household vac. that I could drop the hose down a vent pipe and with the doors open, it could suck out some of the Chlorine fumes, and a mop and bucket.....geez...it's 4 AM and this doesn't sound like an avenue to the rest of a good night's sleep. Course we as farmers have had much more with which to deal over our careers.....yeah, but I'm a big Eight Zero is my next BD and I don't cope with surprises like I once did. Getting to be real "chicken hearted". One reason I sold off my cows.....getting in a pen with a couple thousand pound "snorter" didn't sound like the thing I ought to be doing any longer to name one.

Maybe I'll just crank up the coffee pot and check out the folks over at Yesterday's Tractors and see what's going on. Wink!

Later,
Mark
 
You could put a hose in the exhaust, and run it outside. Does a friend have a vac? Borrow their hose. Or use enough hose to leave vacuum outside.
 
I also have one. There should be a place in the instructions where it says to remove the paper filter as it will ruin in quick order if gotten wet. There is nothing else to do, it has a plastic ball in it that will stop the water when the vac that stops the water before it gets full enough of water to get in the impeller. Just empty it and start using it again. Depending on how diluted the clorox is it may have some issues with the plastic contained in the vac but I think it would be a long time before it was an ussue
 
Mine says to remove the paper filter and there is a foam filter to replace it with. This cuts down on what moisture that goes out the exhaust.
 
Most shop vac's the air comes it through the hose and tank then through the vac fins then over the electric motor to cool it.
I work as a construction electrician, and we used a vac to suck a string through conduit to then pull a pull rope in to then pull the large feeder wire in. That conduit would often get water from condensation and rain in it. So the vac's we used were a true dry vac, the air did not go through/over the motor but it had a separate fan for cooling it.
 
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remove the paper filter as it will ruin in quick order if gotten wet.

Now you tell me. lol I've got one of those little ones too but only used for dry stuff in the trailer. On the big ones I've used it seems like they have an inner paper filter and foam that wraps around. I didn't see a way to just use the foam. When pulling up leaked water in a basement it seems like there is always a bunch of crud that comes with it. I just always cleaned the filter and let it dry. Some I've used didn't have the foam around the paper but they cleaned up and dried but looked like heck. I've usually wet mop with chlorine bleach and/or pinesol mixed in a bucket to sanitize.
 
Just got one myself, haven't used it yet. If you use it for wet, empty and rinse it out right away or you'll get the heaves next time you open it. Paper filter is OK for a litle bit of wet use. They have a foam filter for heavy wet use.
 
I probably can scrounge up enough hose around here to rig up something.....good idea to ship the outlet overboard.
 
Mine had that foam filter when new but it wrapped around the paper part and without that in place, there was nothing to support the foam.....best I can recall.
 
Pinesol.......BINGO!! It's been in the family since I was a kid. Have a bottle under the sink. That will kill the mold spore and not subject me to Chlorine
gas Clorox remnants that were concerning me if using it as to how to get them out of the room before I come back in to suck up the water and garbage
bag up all the paper/boxes and such!!!!!!! Great idea. Thank you sir.
 
Well you guys have given me the courage to proceed. I had a very serious case of Lymphoma intestinal cancer back in 2013. 6 chemo sessions, superb MD calling the shots, cancer treatment centerl 25 miles from the house, and I have been clean ever since. What it did was to make me aware of what goes into my body and I am not paranoid, but if I don't have to be subject, I avoid it.

Thank you for your support and ideas.
 
Trxasmark1

I put water in it a d then use it as vacuum. No bag needed, and they got expensive to boot.
I just rinse it when I am done,

Guido.
 

Glad you are doing well and good luck. I use roundup and 24D all the time. Have used chlordane and about every other banned chemical in the past. Swallowed gasoline trying to syphon it as a kid. Guess I'll find out if any of it comes back to haunt me or not.
 

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