Dust & Soot Vacuums Are More Versatile Than You Might Think

There are many sources of dust in the typical commercial environment, but only one Goodway to clean them up. Many of them are easily cleaned up with standard commercial or industrial vacuum cleaners.   But there are some, especially the finer dusts, that call for a vacuum especially designed for use with fine powders and soot.

Whenever you have crews in doing renovations or repairs that generate sawdust, concrete or drywall dust, you should have a dust/soot vacuum. Or, maybe you have industrial production equipment such as planers, routers, grinders, etc., in use in your building.  No matter how well they are ventilated, they can still generate fugitive emissions that leave a coating of dust on your plant and equipment.

Dust Takes a Powder

For both of these situations, use the EV-80-D Fine Dust Shaker vacuum system. Designed to handle fine dusts and powders easily and without clogging, the EV-80-D features a replaceable 1-micron filter protected with a cyclone filter. Just push a button and the vacuum cleaner shakes the filter to help remove collected dust.

A broad range of accessories helps make your powder and dust vacuum even more versatile and useful with available tools, extensions, wands and hoses to meet almost any cleaning challenge.  For example, the pipe tool helps simplify cleaning the outsides of 6” and larger overhead pipes.

Soot – The Final Frontier

Firetube boilers practically cry out for a vacuum capable of sucking up all the soot they generate (because, as we all know, there is no such thing as perfect combustion, so all firetube boilers leave soot behind – the gift that keeps on giving).

So use one of the GTC-540 systems, rated at 270 cubic-feet per minute (cfm) of air handling capacity, as a companion to your Soot-A-Matic firetube boiler cleaning system.

With high airflow capacity, a tangential air intake to increase power and more than 2 horsepower creating 50” of stategic lift, this is a powerful tool for removing the soot loosened by your SAM boiler-tube cleaner.

GTC-540-15SS includes a built-in 15 gallon stainless steel tank, handles and casters for easy transport to wherever the soot lives.

The next size up, the GTC-540-20SS includes filters and a 20-gallon stainless steel soot recovery tank which you can line with disposable polyethylene bags to make disposing of accumulated soot a simple task.

The GTC-540-30 version of the system has all the same powerful features like the tangential intake port and includes an 18-20” adapter ring so it can use any standard 30-gallon drums you just might happen to have lying around the shop.

Ditto the GTC-540-55, which has an adapter that will enable you to turn any standard-size 55-gallon drum into a dust collection canister.

Couple any of  the above systems with more than70 different available options  – crevice and cleanup tools, flat surface gulpers, rough-floor cleaners and more, attach them to a variety of wands, hoses, and adapters and you can leverage your investment in the vacuum, turning it into a versatile cleaning system you can use almost anywhere in your building.

Rich Silverman
Goodway Blogging Team

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