I bought a little MYTEE surface vac Question

[JohnB]

I bought the surface cleaner MYTEE 12 inch this morning from a guy going out of business .. I am going to have to rebuild the swivel.. But this will be a good unit for those hard to reach areas and under counters and such .. How much of a vac or " water lift " do I need to generate to vac at about 15 ft of 1 1/4 inch hose to be able to suck water up from this 12 inch unit ??

 

[Christopher]

One thing to remember is the more water flow you have going to it, the more cfm's and water lift you will need.

I think that 110" water lift and 200cfm should do it, not the job for a shopvac.

I have the Nikro dual head vacuum system that has 110" water lift and 230cfm and it will pick up water with my Steel Eagle 24" surface cleaner running 3000psi and 5.6gpm.

If you use nozzles to restrict your flow to about 3gpm, it would work better and you don't have to worry so much about a larger vacuum system.

You can get the Nikro and rig up a pump out system all for about $1000.00 but......you will need 3 outlets, each motor pulls 13 amps and the sump pump I put in mine pulls 9 amps, that is one problem with the system I have, finding 3 outlets not on the same breakers.

If you have a generator and some long 12gauge or thicker electric extension cords, you should be ok or if you can find separate breakers then you will be ok also.

Hope this helps.

 

[JohnB]

Well I guess I will look into vacs , Since the sirroco is not always available to me ( Long Story ) as far as the generator I may have to uuse more than one recpt.. Going to try and get one of my restaurants that I do to let me try it out on there tile floor.. I am just about to order the swivel rebuild kit..

 

[Big Mike]

I think that 110" water lift and 200cfm should do it, not the job for a shopvac.

I disagree. 1 1/4" vac hose and a 12" surface cleaner won't require much CFM or lift to pick up the water. I would certainly try out a simple shop vac before buying something that would be complete overkill for this application.

 

[JohnB]

Well we will find out about the reg..wet vac I have a 200.00 shop vac that has 69 inches of water lift My swivel should be here on tuesday of next week.

 

[Chris Francis]

May get little off track ask cleaning tile floors how much pressure do you need can you use normal sc.