new bosch vacs?

[nehardwoodfloors]

For what its worth, my business partner has an auto clean clarke(same as makita). It was really good for a year or so. Now its broken and is super loud and will not run for any lengthy time period.
So now my Ct26 is his vac. I carry my midi. We put vacs through some serious work. Often running them for hours at a time.
Festools are still going strong. I mean both of the garages are busted and we have replaced the plugs a few times, but they are still working like new.
A true testament to the Festool line of vacs. You just cant argue the fact that we have had every  major brand of DC out there and the only ones still going are the
Festools.

 

[JoggleStick]

@jonathan
I pretty much agree with your comments...
Starmix ISP are another very good German brand and designed for concrete grinder dust, etc as you said. Perhaps a slightly better price point, model for model too.
I should have clarified what I meant by saying, "in the Festool family- Protool is the go-to brand for concrete dust extraction" ... As you correctly pointed out.
Concrete dust is so incredibly abrasive too... You are basically continuously sand blasting the insides of your vacuum the whole time you are sucking the dust through...
Cyclone pre-separators are a very good idea and it puzzles me why Festool has not provided this obvious 'blank hole' in their product range....
Perhaps 2013 is the year of the Green Cyclone.....

 

[duburban]

its about time i played with a cyclone. if i could collect the majority of the dust in there i wouldn't mind using the festools as the pump.

 

[jmbfestool]

jonathan, thats why the new makita is really offering a lot for the money. under $600, includes 2 filters that autoclean one every 15 seconds then the next filter 15 seconds later.

http://www.makitatools.com/en-us/Modules/Company/PressReleases.aspx?ID=288688

videos are private why wud they do da!

 

[duburban]

i know... whoops

 

[Timtool]

@Jonathan-m,
i agree that Bosch tools are usually good value for money, never had any problems with them. Even though all the Festools i bought to replace my Bosch tools were in general superior, besides the jigsaws.
In the past they did some great stuff like the SDS system or the jigsaw blade system, which were so good that they became standard on all brands. Can't they admit this time Festool won the "case" with the systainers, most of the brands have adopted it over here, even Hitachi is now offered in classic systainers.
I also don't understand why they didn't continue with Tanos systainers, and had to opt for another company no other brand uses and who apparently initially copied the systainer without paying rights to the patent holders. So now the Sortimmo L-boxx is made under licence by Tanos anyway, so TTS is still earning money for every L-boxx sold.
So now the result is that Bosch is sitting on an island with their own system which is totally incompatible with what everybody else is using, if your van or shop is optimized for the systainers, which are optimized for sheet goods usage if you build racks (multiples of 20 and 30cm) then these L-boxxes won't even fit. It shows how well tanos thought this through, and how Bosch/sortimmo completely missed the point again.

 

[jonathan-m]

It's definitely strange

 

[crpaulk]

I haven't seen the  Bosch vacs in person, but from the link your provided, they look impressive. I run a Festool and Fein currently, using the Fein as my primary mainly because the Fein doesn't doesn't use a disposable bag and I prefer the hose. I solved the hose issue on my Festool by getting another Fein hose to use with it. I think any of these Fein, Festool, Bosch, etc.. are light years ahead of any of the shop vacs that I see 99% of contractors using. It is nice to have so many good choices. Festool has led the way in building quality tools with a system approach that do the job well and and are a joy to use, so I pick Festool first unless there is a specific feature that leads me in a different direction.

 

[jonathan-m]

Found a new video with some extra info

 

[Holz-Her]

The new Bosch vacs are definately made by Karcher

 

[duburban]

i like their filter cleaning options better than the 36ac. auto or at the hose end.