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ShopVac Repairs
A stainless steel 10 gallon (*) 5 Peak HP (**) ShopVac followed me home from the side of the road. It seemed to be in easily repairable condition and looks like a definite improvement for my collection.
One handle had a broken screw boss, probably from the same event producing the crack across the top, over on the right:
ShopVac – broken screw boss The self-tapping screw (taken from the other end of the handle) looked to be about #10, so I melted a 10-32 brass insert into roughly the right position with a soldering gun:
ShopVac – brass insert in handle boss An aluminum sheet bandsawed into shape will reinforce the crack, with a generous dollop of hot melt glue holding everything in place:
ShopVac – repaired handle – bottom view I don’t plan to carry it around by the handle, so perhaps it’ll outlast your expectations.
From the top, it looks pretty much the way it should:
ShopVac – repaired handle – installed The front caster mount lost both of the 1/4-20 bolts previously holding it to the canister, so I installed a pair of nice stainless steel bolts and nyloc nuts:
ShopVac – new front foot bolts The motor runs fine, a new bag & filter arrived the next day, and it’s all good.
Disclaimers from ShopVac’s Fine Print section:
* Tank capacity refers to actual tank volume, and does not reflect capacity available during operation.
** “Peak Horsepower” (PHP) is a term used in the wet-dry vacuum industry for consumer comparison purposes. It does not denote the operational horsepower of a wet-dry vacuum but rather the horsepower output of a motor, including the motor’s inertial contribution, achieved in laboratory testing. In actual use, Shop-Vac® motors do not operate at the peak horsepower shown.
https://www.shopvac.com/Translation: they lie.
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