CT22 and others models - Longlife Filer Bag..... What are your experiences?

[Steve R]

Is the CT 22 Longlife Filter Bag (Re-Usable) worth the $192? [scared]. In a shop setting behind the Kepex...yea...but on location where I get everything.... wondering.

What are your thoughts?

Cheers,
Steve

 

[AlexThePalex]

The long life bag is good with everything. Some say its only for big wood chips but I've sucked up about everything imaginable with it and it never gave me any problems.

 

[jonny round boy]

I bought my CT26 used (only slightly) and it came complete with a long-life bag, so I never had to fork out for one.

Even so, I never used the long-life bag - I sold it on pretty much straight away and bought a pack of disposable bags. I don't use my tools professionally anymore, so I don't fill the bags as quickly as others undoubtably will (I still have the first one in). Having said that, when I did use my tools to make a living I only had a CT Mini.

 

[nehardwoodfloors]

Love mine. Think mine was only $100 when I bought it.

 

[chrisrosenb]

Is the CT 22 Longlife Filter Bag (Re-Usable) worth the $192? [scared]. In a shop setting behind the Kepex...yea...but on location where I get everything.... wondering.

What are your thoughts?

Cheers,
Steve

Steve, the reason I use a vacuum is to collect & contain the dust. In the shop I connect the vac to a small cyclone. By doing this I do not use many bags in the shop. On a jobsite I just use the disposable bags.
For me having to empty a reusable bag & dealing with the dust that it stirs up defeats my goal of containing the dust. 

 

[jmbfestool]

Is the CT 22 Longlife Filter Bag (Re-Usable) worth the $192? [scared]. In a shop setting behind the Kepex...yea...but on location where I get everything.... wondering.

What are your thoughts?

Cheers,
Steve

Steve, the reason I use a vacuum is to collect & contain the dust. In the shop I connect the vac to a small cyclone. By doing this I do not use many bags in the shop. On a jobsite I just use the disposable bags.
For me having to empty a reusable bag & dealing with the dust that it stirs up defeats my goal of containing the dust. 

If you was to go on site and leave you cyclone cus its something else you need to carry you can always use your vacuum with a normal bag and then you get back to your shop use your cyclone with a new bag in your vacuum and suck out your used  bag/bags from site to empty it.

JMB

 

[tDot]

I use my long life bags for everything.  I have one in each of my CT22's and they have never given me any problems.  They're sucking up everything from drywall dust to wood shavings and they seem to be as effective today as they were the first day that I bought them, these things are being emptied atleast 3 times a week, so they are being used.  After one particularly dusty day, I used my central shop vac to clean the inside of the one bag; after it was as clean as the day I bought it, so now I do that to clean them, every few months.  The benefit to them is that I'm keeping all the spent bags out of the landfills and I dont have to cart around a cyclone (which is now sitting unused, somewhere in the attic.  I also dont find them particularly dusty to clean them out... just put the plug into the hose port, take off the plastic closure strip, place the top of the bag at the very bottom of the garbage bin, and let the dust/ debris slide out, no unnecessary shaking, and they is virtually no dust!! 

 

[Steve R]

Thanks for the feedback!

Cheers,
Steve

 

[Eli]

I use my long life bags for everything.  I have one in each of my CT22's and they have never given me any problems.  They're sucking up everything from drywall dust to wood shavings and they seem to be as effective today as they were the first day that I bought them, these things are being emptied atleast 3 times a week, so they are being used.  After one particularly dusty day, I used my central shop vac to clean the inside of the one bag; after it was as clean as the day I bought it, so now I do that to clean them, every few months.  The benefit to them is that I'm keeping all the spent bags out of the landfills and I dont have to cart around a cyclone (which is now sitting unused, somewhere in the attic.  I also dont find them particularly dusty to clean them out... just put the plug into the hose port, take off the plastic closure strip, place the top of the bag at the very bottom of the garbage bin, and let the dust/ debris slide out, no unnecessary shaking, and they is virtually no dust!! 

+1, exactly the same. I have two 22's and clean each as I empty with the other. Same with filters.

 

[Dan Clermont]

I am a huge fan of the LongLife filter bag and use it all the time. I can be kind of frugal and knowing the longlife bag can be used  without costing me another penny is worth the money

Dan Clermont