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Chip Vac Cleans Brass Chips and Shavings – IHP Promo Still Ongoing!

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All good things must come to an end. But, that’s NOT going to be the case for the EXAIR IHP Promo. We’ve extended our Industrial Housekeeping Promotion now through the month of May. Order any of EXAIR’s Industrial Housekeeping Systems and receive a FREE Vac-U-Gun.

Taking advantage of this just recently was a customer in South America looking for a solution for vacuuming brass chips and shavings from their machine. They’d been using standard electrical shop vacs, which served their intended purpose. Albeit for a limited time only. The issue with electric shop vac style vacuums in industrial environments is that they’re simply not designed for the type of use and abuse common in a manufacturing facility. They were sick of replacing those periodically throughout the year and began seeking a more permanent solution.

Electrically powered vacuums or shop vacs are not designed to be operated in a rugged industrial environment. Filters clog, motors wear out, and you find yourself frequently replacing them. EXAIR’s Chip Vac has NO moving parts to wear out, doesn’t require maintenance, and needs nothing but a source of compressed air to operate. In addition, the sound level produced is half of that produced by an electric vacuum.

EXAIR’s Chip Vac Family

EXAIR’s Chip Vac is a compressed air operated industrial duty vacuum designed specifically for vacuuming up chips and shavings. The powerful vacuum is suitable for use with metal, wood, or plastic chips and is designed to thread into the 2” NPT bung on standard drum lids. The Chip Vac can handle dry or wet chips from fixtures, floors and work surfaces of machining centers, lathes, saws, mills, and a variety of other industrial equipment.

The Chip Vac is sold in systems both with and without the drum. EXAIR has 5, 30, 55, and 110 gallon systems available for a wide range of applications. If you already have spare drums in your facility, the Chip Vac is also available with just the lid assembly, Chip Vac, 10’ hose, tools, and filter bag to attach to the top of your own drums.

All systems will include a drum lid with a locking ring that easily fits onto the top of a standard open-top drum. It’s easy to remove and place onto another drum so that different materials can be easily kept separate for recycling. Recycling companies will pay a premium price for pre-sorted chips and shavings. With the Chip Vac, it’s as easy as removing the lid and placing it onto a new drum in between jobs. Don’t waste your time this spring fooling with and replacing electrical vacuum systems. Get yourself a vacuum designed for the job. One that’ll be sure to last year after year! With these systems in stock, ready to ship with an order by 2:00 ET and an unconditional 30-day guarantee, there’s no reason to not give one a try!

Tyler Daniel

Application Engineer

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EXAIR Heavy Duty Dry Vac’s for Industrial Cleaning

Published on by Jordan T ShouseLeave a comment

With spring-cleaning right around the corner, stop buying the plastic electric vacuums you throw away and have to replace every year. Get a system that is built to be tough and rugged and will hold up in your industrial environment.

EXAIR’s Heavy Duty Dry Vacs turn ordinary drums into high-powered, rugged industrial vacuum systems.

EXAIR has a pneumatic Heavy Duty Dry Vac that is engineered with the power to vacuum heavy materials. The Heavy Duty Dry Vac is constructed from a hardened alloy that resists abrasion from the harshest debris, like garnet, glass, tumbling media and steel shot. This system has no moving parts, which means no motors or bearings that can fail on you.

The Heavy Duty Dry Vac requires only 68 SCFM at 80 psig of compressed air to operate. Using a hardened alloy construction for the vacuum generator gives the system an increased resistance to abrasive material including sand and blasting material. Depending on your application and the volume of material you need to vacuum, we provide 3 different sizes; 30-gal, 55-gal, and 110-gal.  

Our Heavy Duty Dry Vac is the perfect solution for cleaning dry media such as abrasive media, sand blasting, absorbents and gravel from your shop floors and work surfaces. The possibility of electric shock you experience with electric motors is virtually eliminated as the source of power is compressed air. The use of an anti-static hose also prevents shocks when vacuuming dry materials.

EXAIR Heavy Duty Dry Vac Family

EXAIR‘s Heavy Duty Dry Vacs come in 30, 55 and 110 gallon options with several accessories available to help your cleanup and specific needs. These are stock items and can generally be shipped the same day with orders received before 2:00 PM EST. If you have questions regarding our Heady Duty Dry Vac or any of our Industrial Housekeeping Products, please give us a call.

Jordan Shouse
Application Engineer

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Use the Heavy Duty HEPA Vac for Dusty Materials!

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Have you ever pulled the shop vac from the cleaning closet and went to vacuum some fine material only to have that material come right back out of the air exhaust? Not only does it make the situation even harder to clean up, it can be dangerous depending on what’s in that dust. This is where the EXAIR Heavy Duty HEPA Vac comes into play!

EXAIR’s Heavy Duty HEPA Vac has NO moving parts to wear out, doesn’t require maintenance, and needs nothing but a source of compressed air to operate. A static resistant hose also prevents painful shocks when working with dry, dusty materials.

The vacuum generator is constructed of a hardened steel alloy designed to be resistant to abrasion and delivers a powerful vacuum level of -60” H2O at 80 PSIG. The lever lock drum lid fits any open-top 30, 55, or 110 gallon drum. Moving the system from one drum to another can be done quickly, allowing you to keep different materials separate for recycling. Recycling companies will pay a premium for pre-sorted materials, allowing you to get more out of your otherwise scrapped material. It can be used with any open-head, steel, fiber, or plastic drum in good condition.

If you don’t have a spare drum available, EXAIR also sells a Premium Heavy Duty HEPA Vac System that will include either a 30, 55, or 110 gallon drum and dolly as part of the system.

The HEPA Vac works by injecting compressed air at 80-100 PSIG through the air inlet (1) and into an annular plenum chamber (2). It is then injected into the throat through precisely directed nozzles (3). These jets of air create a vacuum at the intake (4) which draws in material through the generator itself (5), directing it into the bottom of the drum. The airflow is passed first through a pre-filter to trap larger particles, and then through the 0.3 micron HEPA filter, trapping any airborne particles. It is then exhausted through the vent in the top of the drum lid (6).

You wouldn’t use a hammer to try and drive in a screw, so don’t try and force a shop vac or electric vacuum to deal with these harsh materials. Get yourself the right tool for the job and give an EXAIR Vac a try. With a 5 Year Built to Last Warranty, there really is no comparison.

Jordan Shouse
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Reversible Drum Vac Overview

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If you need to move liquid into – or out of – a drum, you’ve got options. There are many types of pumps with electric motors that you can hook a suction hose up to, insert it through the bung connection on the drum lid (or even take the lid off if it’s removable), and turn the pump on. They even make pumps that look like long wands with motors on top that’ll actually insert through, and thread into that bung connection.

No electricity? No problem…you can hook a suction hose to an air-operated double diaphragm pump, and it’ll work an awful lot like the aforementioned electric-motor driven pump. You can even get one of those drum pumps that fit the bung in the lid that runs on compressed air.

Thing is, those electric motors are going to burn out sooner or later. Sooner if you let them get dirty & wet; later, if you’re disciplined about taking the great pains it requires to keep them clean & well maintained. And they ALL have moving parts that’ll wear out (especially those loud and GROSSLY inefficient air motors)…nothing, it seems, lasts forever. You might come close, though, if only you had something that didn’t run on electricity and had no moving parts…

With a simple turn of the knob, the Reversible Drum Vac can fill or empty a 55 gallon drum in 90 seconds!

Dear reader, allow me to introduce you to the EXAIR Reversible Drum Vac. Instead of using a motor (electric or air) to turn a pump shaft, or using air to move diaphragms back & forth, the Reversible Drum Vac has a venturi inside that uses compressed air to pull a vacuum on the drum. With a simple turn of the knob, the compressed air supply reverses (as advertised) and lightly pressurizes the drum to empty it. The Reversible Drum Vac has a float in the bottom that keeps you from overfilling the drum (while pumping in) and a light spring poppet that keeps you from over-pressurizing the drum (while pumping out).

Here are a few examples of what customers use the Reversible Drum Vac for:

EXAIR Reversible Drum Vac Systems come in a variety of sizes and configurations to meet the needs of most any application.
  • Laboratory operators in a chemical processing facility use Model 6296-5 Deluxe Mini Reversible Drum Vac Systems to pump out the waste tanks under the lab tables. They’re then wheeled to the main reclamation tanks for safe disposal.
  • Many machine shops use them to pump old coolant out of sumps for disposal. Some even use them to vacuum oil out of the collection trays when cutting oil is used for the machining process.
  • A civil engineering firm that makes small scale models of dams & bridges uses one to de-water caissons…the watertight retaining structures that allow them to install the foundations. They can’t be used to move the thousands of gallons of water from the actual caissons, but they work well for the smaller volumes in their scale models.
  • Foundries and other facilities that operate sand casting molds use them to clean up water leaks & spills around the molds. The ability to pick up the sand and the water, without any wear to the system, makes them preferable to electric shop vacuums.
  • A meat processing facility uses one to clean up myoglobin – the reddish liquid that many folks think is blood in their medium rare steaks (it’s actually a combination of water & the protein that carries oxygen to the cells, and starts to form quickly as the meat is butchered) – so the cuts of meat are as free from it as possible prior to packaging.

The Reversible Drum Vac generates a suction head of -96″H2O when supplied with compressed air at 80psig, which is more than enough vacuum for applications like those listed above. Some applications require higher vacuum; for those, we offer the High Lift Reversible Drum Vac Systems, which generate suction head of -180″H2O. Here are some examples of those applications:

EXAIR High Lift Reversible Drum Vac Systems come in different configurations for 30, 55, or 110 gallon drums.
  • A maker of bottled condiments (think barbecue sauce- or ketchup-like consistency) uses them to clean up accidents when bottles are overfilled, or a conveyor malfunction results in dispensing a bottle’s worth of condiment when there’s not a bottle under the nozzle.  The 20ft hose gives them the reach to service several production lines from one centrally located drum, and the two-way pumping action allows them to easily pump the drum into their waste collection system.
  • A precast concrete company uses one for various cleanup applications.  The High Lift RDV‘s suction head is needed, in particular for their hydraulic oil leaks & spills.
  • A ferry operator uses one to clean out the engine room bilge.  They put the High Lift RDV on a deck above the engine room…the 20ft hose extends down to the bilge to pump it out, and when the drum is full, it reaches to the main deck so the drum can be emptied into their waste recycling company’s receptacle.
  • A construction company uses one to clean up the slurry created during concrete cutting operations.  The High Lift RDV is able to keep up with the slurry from even their largest saws, and the 20ft hose allows them to keep the drum conveniently out of the cutting area.

If you’ve got an application that you could use a 2-way liquid pumping system on a drum for, give me a call. Oh, and now through the end of April 2024, we’ll give you a free Vac-u-Gun with any qualifying Industrial Housekeeping Products purchase!

Russ Bowman, CCASS

Application Engineer
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