Anyone out there using Rigid vacs for your vac table?
One of our feins just melted and they do not make them any more.
Anyone out there using Rigid vacs for your vac table?
One of our feins just melted and they do not make them any more.
Kyle Stapleton
River Falls Renaissance Academy
Math/Technology Education Teacher
PRS Alpha 96x60 2.2 hp spindle, Double Air drills, 6" indexer, Fein 5 zone vac table
Desktop w/spindle
Potter Pen
Aspire 8.5, Creo 3.0
not a good idea they are not up to the job though they are much better as a basic shop vac then the fein is. If you can only go 110v I would get two of the fein type motors and make a black box out of them they will be quet and they are about 160.00 each.
That would be nice but I do not have time to make anything.
I see the fein I and II have the same motor, 1100 watt motor that delivers a 151 cfm flow rate and 98.4 inches of water lift.
The specs on the III were
Nominal Power: 1,200 Watts
Air Flow: 126 CFM
Static Water Lift: 99"
I'm thinking of getting a I and letter rip....
Kyle Stapleton
River Falls Renaissance Academy
Math/Technology Education Teacher
PRS Alpha 96x60 2.2 hp spindle, Double Air drills, 6" indexer, Fein 5 zone vac table
Desktop w/spindle
Potter Pen
Aspire 8.5, Creo 3.0
I bought a 1 for house cleanup that was quiet. but it turned out to not have a huge amount of airflow can comes with with a wacky filter. then the power plugin stopped working. the 3 is the same as the older ones it just has variable speed.
Where can you fined a 3?
Kyle Stapleton
River Falls Renaissance Academy
Math/Technology Education Teacher
PRS Alpha 96x60 2.2 hp spindle, Double Air drills, 6" indexer, Fein 5 zone vac table
Desktop w/spindle
Potter Pen
Aspire 8.5, Creo 3.0
looks like the 3 is gone the two is whats the new three I guess. if I went bac to vac I was thinking along these lines
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008600U1K?psc=1
but this is the guy I would get still uses the round filter.
https://www.amazon.com/Fein-9-20-25-...&keywords=fein
I went to a local vacuum repair shop and they had a used vacuum motor out of a car wash vacuum that worked great, they put new brushes on it...
Mounted right under the table, about 40 dollars.
The decimal point seems to be the most important on the z axis... x & y not so much....
ShopBot... Where even the scraps and things you mess up and throw away are cool....
What do you need a filter for. When I checked mine there was nothing in it after 8 years.
The ridged will work to get by but will burn out quick. Shop vac may last longer.
Wish I had the bucks to get that Fein 9-20-25 Steve
They've stopped making it, and the variable speed makes it Perfect for a Desktop, and I've been dreading getting one with a simple on/off switch.
Dang....and a price 100-150 $ less than the last time I saw it
I hope the new motor the Fein repair center stuck in for free(3 months short of the 3 yr warranty) holds out for a long time.
Quietest shopvac I've ever heard, even at power level 5.
scott
scott P.
2013 Desktop/spindle/VCP 11.5**
Maine