CT Midi - is the hose garage still weak?

[Marlinspike]

Thank you for that phrasing, as I'm working hard to divorce myself from the language and behaviors of my uncivilized upbringing.  Now I have another phrase substitution option besides "ad hoc", when only the antiquated base, boorish, or offensive phrases are coming to mind. [wink]

"That's not considered a professional implementation method..."
"That solution doesn't satisfy my craftsmanship standards..."  (these just came to me).

This forum really expands our minds!

 

[Marlinspike]

I ended up getting the CT Midi, in part because of the issues people have been reporting on Amazon with the socket in the Fein failing and in part because 1 just happened to go on sale on the local Craigslist for $250 with a new AS hose.

It has many positives, but it has some negatives as well. I would say after taking the panel off, the issue with the 12 amp max is less that you can't run more than 12 amps total off it and more that you wouldn't want to plug something that pulls more than 9 amps into it.

 

[antss]

Seems to me you're analysing the world from behind your desk. Last week I took apart my CT Mini because it was broken, and I noticed how incredibly simple the grounding to the hose was, just an electric wire that runs from the hose connector to the mains cable. This could be incorporated in any vac without difficulty, even in models people already own. You could even bend a copper wire around the hose and stick the other end in the ground.
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kinda like that copper tape Oneida ships with the DD.  [wink] [wink]

Fein has really shot themselves in the foot since sending production of their vac to E. Europe.  Cheaper labor, but the vacs stayed the same price, and sounds like quality has gone down.  I can't recall them ever having variable suction and I've had one for going on 20 years now.

A midi for $250 sounds like robbery to me. [tongue]