UK General Cleaning Forum > General Cleaning Forum
Petrol powered gutter/powerwashing vac
Mike Halliday:
Had a spare couple of hours free yesterday so decided to build something i’ve Had my mind on for a while, a petrol vacuum system that I could use for gutter cleaning or attaching to the FSC and vaccing as I powerwash, (I still need to buy a FSC with a vacuum port but at well over a grand i’m Looking for a second hand one)
I’ve got to say it worked out really well, the length of the vacuum hose is adjustable so I could leave the machine in the van and just move the dirt container (which is on frame with wheels so I can easily move it about)
It has about 4 times the power of the biggest 3 motor electric vacuum
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XcJjAizanlg
Kev Martin:
--- Quote from: Mike Halliday on June 10, 2019, 06:01:31 am ---Had a spare couple of hours free yesterday so decided to build something i’ve Had my mind on for a while, a petrol vacuum system that I could use for gutter cleaning or attaching to the FSC and vaccing as I powerwash, (I still need to buy a FSC with a vacuum port but at well over a grand i’m Looking for a second hand one)
I’ve got to say it worked out really well, the length of the vacuum hose is adjustable so I could leave the machine in the van and just move the dirt container (which is on frame with wheels so I can easily move it about)
It has about 4 times the power of the biggest 3 motor electric vacuum
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XcJjAizanlg
--- End quote ---
Wow! How did you measure that? What were the actual results? Do you have the figures? Which 3 Motor vacuum did you compare it against?
Mike Halliday:
Kev I compared it to this machine which is my normal gutter vac and is 3.3kw which is over the limit of a 13amp plug.
I’m guessing your other question are rhetorical as you probably know I don’t have the instrument to measure the actual vacuum so have to go figures on the manufactures website of the PDB , & the power output of a 13hp engine compared to a domestic household supply. There probably is a little leaway in the suggested power
Smudger:
interesting machine there mike but surely with all that hose your losing/wasting much of the suction ?
Darran
Mike Halliday:
Thats the beauty of positive displacement blowers they are not like electric motors they keeps pulling, they will handle 300ft of hose with no real loss of suction, without a vac relief they will calapse the tank or stall the engine
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
Go to full version