Inventing Again

JohnB

JohnB

JohnB
We are looking at building yet another new surface cleaner but this time we are going to hook my wet vac pump system to it.. I was waondering how much vac hose ( in Feet ) you could run off of a 6.5 Peak Horsepower Motor Rigid Wet Vac and still have enough suction to pick up water.. Also I need an Idea for what to put around the bottom of the surface cleaner so it will create some type of suction on the surface ?
 
Didn't I hear someone had a patent on that? Not trying to be a kill joy, but you may want to check. No point in getting it figured out if it costs a bundle in fees to use the thing...
 
Lets talk about CFM on a regular Wet vac 6.5 HP.. and Hose Distance.. I figure at only losing very little CFM I can run roughly a 20 to 30 foot 1 1/4 pool vac hose .. So if I set up inside I can run 30 feet out and around before having to move the vac.. So we take the 55 gallon drom and vac head with built in float actuated sump pumpAnd go buy the hose tommorrow.. Now I have to figure out the case in case surface cleaner top for the vac to suck thru.. I ran a test today with the vac hooked to the top of my surface cleaner as it is with a single sheild top and only picked up about 60% of the water.. I will get some photos of the design up soon
 
That small vac hose will choke your cfm and those vacs lack the Hg that you need. We have discussed this before and you seemed to ignore all the pertinent facts.
Have fun and let us know what happens.
 
Hey Mr Alan ... I am at it again... The sad thing in all of this is I could go buy one already made .. But I really get bored during the daytime.. We worked on a frame to actually mount the wet vac to the top of the surface cleaner.. Then using a short hose on the split top design it should work.. We will do some test runs by Friday I hope..
 
It wont work. You need to spend the money to get a quality vacuum. The horsepower ratings on those things are optimistic at best, and you need air volume, that means larger hoses.
 
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