Using the CT 33 for liquids

[Hetzenauer]

Hi all,

We recently had some heavy rain fall and my workshop was flooded. I used to clean everything by hand, but I wondered whether I could use my CT 33 to remove the water. Is is enough to just remove the usual paper dustbag and the standard filters? Do you really need to install these wetfilters? (even though inexpensive, I don't have them)
Is it possible to occasionally suck water without a filter or would I then permanently damage my vac?
Thanks in advance for your reaction! 

 

[Woodenfish]

I don't care what kind of adaptors or filters etc. Festool might sell me to allow for water pick up IMO, it's still not a good choice for anything other than dust collection. Real wet/dry vacs have handles to help carry the vac to where I can dump the bucket and a bottom drain to empty the water collected.

 

[Uffe Kaagaard]

Hi all,

We recently had some heavy rain fall and my workshop was flooded. I used to clean everything by hand, but I wondered whether I could use my CT 33 to remove the water. Is is enough to just remove the usual paper dustbag and the standard filters? Do you really need to install these wetfilters? (even though inexpensive, I don't have them)
Is it possible to occasionally suck water without a filter or would I then permanently damage my vac?
Thanks in advance for your reaction! 

You need this:http://www.festoolusa.com/SearchCategoryResult.aspx?ID=0&keyword=452926

 

[Forrest Anderson]

I don't care what kind of adaptors or filters etc. Festool might sell me to allow for water pick up IMO, it's still not a good choice for anything other than dust collection. Real wet/dry vacs have handles to help carry the vac to where I can dump the bucket...

Err, the CT33 has a handle...

 

... which is used to carry the machine around (this photo isn't of the 33 model being carried, but you get the idea)...

Were you wanting another type of handle?

> and a bottom drain to empty the water collected.

Although a bottom drain would be useful on occassions, I'd rather have the dirt trap that Festool uses.

I often empty the waste water down the WC/lavatory, and holding a full CT33 above the WC whilst the water drains out the bottom isn't something I'd relish doing! With the removable dirt trap (optional extra) I wouldn't need to move the whole machine (32lb plus water) to the drain - I could simply lift the trap out of the machine, take it to the somewhere suitable, and tip the contents down a sink, WC etc.

Forrest

 

[Woodenfish]

Let's see, $14 for two sponges and $105 for a plastic pail insert large enough to clean up to clean up after what? A spilled caffe latte?  :

For $79, I like these better >

 

[Charles Wilson]

Let's see, $14 for two sponges and $105 for a plastic pail insert large enough to clean up to clean up after what? A spilled caffe latte?  :

For $79, I like these better >

+1

That is what I use my Ridgid vac for.

Chuck