When using your wet/dry as an extractor...

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turborave

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do you make any changes to the vac?? do you have to takeout the filter and all that just for a little bit of water? mine came with some kind of foam sleeve for when you use it to suck up water. i think you are supposed to put it around the filter, or instead of the filter, i dont remember.



i sprayed down my wifes front mats with Spot Shot and then a scrubbing with a carpet brush, then a sprayed them with water from a spray bottle. i then used the 5hp craftsman wet/dry wall vac to suck out the water. it wasnt very much liquid, so i didnt bother to change anything on the vac.
 
Yeah, I remove the paper filter and either use a foam sleeve over the filter housing or nothing at all. If there's enough water to soak the filter it kills the suction and makes for a nasty mess. Even after it dries, the filter never seems to work well again, it's all blocked up with dirt until/unless you clean it.



Most of the time I just keep the garage wet/dry vac set up for wet-duty, but that's just how it works out best in *my* garage.
 
turborave said:
what happens if you have the filter out and you use it for dry pick up?
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Yeah, you'll get dirt in places where you're only supposed to have clean air. But FWIW, those motors can put up with a lot of abuse. The filter retaining nut on one of mine came off and I ended up putting a *lot* of dirt/dust through mine beofre I noticed it :o Didn't seem to hurt it any; it's still working fine. You can take things apart to some extent and clean it out pretty well.
 
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