How many of U have made a Vacuum drum with a pump out design

Jim@Garagecleaning

Jim@Garagecleaning

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I see make Vacu Booms out there however they are asking a mint. I just don't see how 1800 to 3000 dollars for a 202 cfm vacuum is a fair price. Many of you say that the Nikro Vac's are among the best. Their duty cycle is about 2 hours. Their CFM is 230 with 110 inches rise. They cost around $850, HOWEVER, they do not come with a pump inside the unit.

My question.... how many of you have made your own and with which pump out do you prefer? Any tricks to installation of the pump? Flex line from the pump to the outlet is most like preferred. Is there another system that you may recommend?

I have a garage coming up with the ramp going right out to the street. Normal booms will not work, and I need a Vac with some BALLS. Pardon my French ladies. This time I need some help !!!
 
Jim@Garagecleaning said:
I see make Vacu Booms out there however they are asking a mint. I just don't see how 1800 to 3000 dollars for a 202 cfm vacuum is a fair price. Many of you say that the Nikro Vac's are among the best. Their duty cycle is about 2 hours. Their CFM is 230 with 110 inches rise. They cost around $850, HOWEVER, they do not come with a pump inside the unit.

My question.... how many of you have made your own and with which pump out do you prefer? Any tricks to installation of the pump? Flex line from the pump to the outlet is most like preferred. Is there another system that you may recommend?

I have a garage coming up with the ramp going right out to the street. Normal booms will not work, and I need a Vac with some BALLS. Pardon my French ladies. This time I need some help !!!
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Sounds like California is getting to you.

Sorry Jim that was hard to resist, no pun intended.
 
Jim@Garagecleaning said:
I see make Vacu Booms out there however they are asking a mint. I just don't see how 1800 to 3000 dollars for a 202 cfm vacuum is a fair price. Many of you say that the Nikro Vac's are among the best. Their duty cycle is about 2 hours. Their CFM is 230 with 110 inches rise. They cost around $850, HOWEVER, they do not come with a pump inside the unit.

My question.... how many of you have made your own and with which pump out do you prefer? Any tricks to installation of the pump? Flex line from the pump to the outlet is most like preferred. Is there another system that you may recommend?

I have a garage coming up with the ramp going right out to the street. Normal booms will not work, and I need a Vac with some BALLS. Pardon my French ladies. This time I need some help !!!
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Jim,

I bought the dual head vacuum with the 55 gallon drum. I installed a heavy duty sump pump in it that will also pump small solids. For the pump, bulkhead and water proof grommet for the electical cord it cost about 190 bucks. I think it was a cast iron gould? pump. It took about an hour to do. Use a heavy duty check valve that is easily removed for cleaning (it will sludge up over time.

The other thing we added after the fact was a wire grate in the bottom of the drum that raised the sump pump off of the bottom about an inch and a half.

It works great, I actually had to open the end vents on the vacuboom because the suction was partially collasping them with the dual heads operating. Yes, we sold the piece of ^%$^ vacuum that came with our vacuboom kit. It was the worse thing piece of equipment I have owned to date.

Other equipment I have is two steele eagle recover surface cleaners, one 9? inch and one 16or 19? inch. They are heavy, but they work very well. The leave very minimal (if any) water on the surface when cleaning.

Please Call my cell with any questions
 
hey jim i custom made my vac unit with my own pump out and foam chamber check my pics out
 
Check with these guys, http://www.tcsatl.com/index.html They have a vac unit setup for flood restoration, with auto pump out available. I know a few guys that own them, that can attest to their quality/reliability.
 
jim go to photos 530 section and look at pics of rig almost completed
 
Jim, I have a similar setup to what Mathew has and it works great.

I do not have any pics but I will try to take some this weekend.

I think that the sump pump I have will do around 20-30gpm.

I will give you a call this weekend.
 
Check out Lamb Electric Ametek. You can buy vacuum motors directly from them and make your own unit if you have the skills. I have not done it but had to research them for parts for the vac I have. Looks like you could save a bundle doing it yourself.
 
When we did lots of flatwork used the Nikro dual vac with sump in the drum, it was excellent and about $700 for everything.

I would get some nylon mesh filter sock at Lowes or HD. Tie one end in a knot and clamp the open end around the vac intake in the drum. This catches any larger debris and you just take it off and pop it in a dumpster when full.

http://img2.timeinc.net/toh/i/a/yard/landscaping-slopes-07.jpg
 
John Doherty said:
When we did lots of flatwork used the Nikro dual vac with sump in the drum, it was excellent and about $700 for everything.

I would get some nylon mesh filter sock at Lowes or HD. Tie one end in a knot and clamp the open end around the vac intake in the drum. This catches any larger debris and you just take it off and pop it in a dumpster when full.

http://img2.timeinc.net/toh/i/a/yard/landscaping-slopes-07.jpg
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John, We did the same, and it worked great. We also took and made two box type crates and stretched the filter sock over them. They catch a lot of debris, cig butts and stuff. We made two of them so that we could change them out and have someone clean the spare while we were working.
 
John Doherty said:
When we did lots of flatwork used the Nikro dual vac with sump in the drum, it was excellent and about $700 for everything.

I would get some nylon mesh filter sock at Lowes or HD. Tie one end in a knot and clamp the open end around the vac intake in the drum. This catches any larger debris and you just take it off and pop it in a dumpster when full.

http://img2.timeinc.net/toh/i/a/yard/landscaping-slopes-07.jpg
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When using the Nikro unit, how long of hose runs could you use? Do you have to move it every 25 feet of washing?
 
I have used 100' of vacuum hose and had no problems with my 5.6gpm machine. That is all the hose I had until recently, now I have another 100' and will be testing that next month.
 
Jim@Garagecleaning said:
I see make Vacu Booms out there however they are asking a mint. I just don't see how 1800 to 3000 dollars for a 202 cfm vacuum is a fair price. Many of you say that the Nikro Vac's are among the best. Their duty cycle is about 2 hours. Their CFM is 230 with 110 inches rise. They cost around $850, HOWEVER, they do not come with a pump inside the unit.

My question.... how many of you have made your own and with which pump out do you prefer? Any tricks to installation of the pump? Flex line from the pump to the outlet is most like preferred. Is there another system that you may recommend?

I have a garage coming up with the ramp going right out to the street. Normal booms will not work, and I need a Vac with some BALLS. Pardon my French ladies. This time I need some help !!!
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Hey, Jim whats cookin?

Here are the internals of a system from Jerry of pressurewasher.net, you can put a vac head on it or attach a stand alone vac (suggested).
If you have a lot of solids put his sand trap drum (15, 30 & 55 gallons available, thats 7.5,15, & 27.5 of silt can be picked up respectively); up stream of the pump out drum (30 to 55 gallons available). Pump out on "super duty" 30gpm @ 20', cost??........... give him a call.

Hope all is well.

Great custom built systems guys.
 

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pb4ugo said:
When using the Nikro unit, how long of hose runs could you use? Do you have to move it every 25 feet of washing?
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We used 100 feet with plenty of power to spare. The vac was 230 cfm with 110" water lift.
 
the real way to go for serious power is a roots blower setup ... jim check out this web site www.trans-clean.com click on fleets and check out a step up they made......16- 20 hp vanguard with a roots style blower... serious power!!!
 
newjersey.craigslist.org/for/868523154.html jim try this out it looks like it got some punch .....
 
I was wondering about the motors. The vacuum-head motors I've seen were all rated for intermittent use.

Many also have an average life rating of 500 hrs.

Thanks for any info
 
tomtucson said:
I was wondering about the motors. The vacuum-head motors I've seen were all rated for intermittent use.

Many also have an average life rating of 500 hrs.

Thanks for any info
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There are many brushless motors available with virtually unlimited life, though they are usually quoted as 2000 hrs.
 
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