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Using a small handheld vacuum for cleaning up glass?

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phmoores	Using a small handheld vacuum for cleaning up glass?	Lead	[-]
Posts: 33 (04/13/05 02:44:33) Flame Fanatic Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None www.deepdiscounts.com/Eur...tchen.html Just wondering, if your working in a small area with small amounts of glass, will one of these vacuums with a hepa filter be good enough for picking up the particles of glass? Or is the frit and enamel particles just going to be picked up and spit out the other side?
mikeaurelius	Re: Using a small handheld vacuum for cleaning up glass?	#1	[-]
Posts: 539 (04/13/05 03:45:41) Vendor Representative Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Use a spray mister first to dampen the dust, then use the vacuum to pick it up, then a rag to clean up the rest. That's what we do -- but we have a 'Shop Vac' and another by Rigid, with much higher suction. HEPA filters on both. Handhelds are nice but they usually don't have a lot of suction compared to a floor model.
phmoores	Re: Using a small handheld vacuum for cleaning up glass?	#2	[-]
Posts: 33 (04/13/05 10:01:31) Flame Fanatic Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	tks for the info... the people at work were saying the 'hepa' portion of the vacuum is just something that charges the particles as they pass by and catches them that way. Is that the case or is it a real mesh filter that will capture the tiny glass particles or is glass something that might pass through?
mikeaurelius	Re: Using a small handheld vacuum for cleaning up glass?	#3	[-]
Posts: 539 (04/14/05 03:18:11) Vendor Representative Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	No, it's a high density filter. No electostatic devices at all.
Joseph Corcoran	Re: Using a small handheld vacuum for cleaning up glass?	#4	[-]
Posts: 683 (04/14/05 13:59:56) Glass Guru Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Mike, so you just use a regular shop vac, with filter, and misting with plenty of glass dust and feel safe? Only reason I ask is im scurred to get a shop vac and have glass dust exiting the exhaust at high velocity. :P Thanks for any input
mikeaurelius	Re: Using a small handheld vacuum for cleaning up glass?	#5	[-]
Posts: 539 (04/14/05 15:54:41) Vendor Representative Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	That's what we've got - and we've had no problems with dust bypassing the filter. As long as you replace the filter every month or so (assuming you use the vac every couple of days). Don't try to clean it out like you would do with say, sawdust. If it gets full up, dump it and replace it. We take the top off the vac, open up one of those 50 gallon heavy duty garbage bags, put the top inside the bag and remove it inside the bag so all the dust stays in the bag. The spray really helps keep the dust down, and gives it some weight so it stays in the vac and not circulating.

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