Rigid shopvac parts scavenging

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I am a fan of Rigid shop vacs. What started out as a test one time purchase, soon converted me into a lifetime fan of Ridgid shop vacs. Because of the heavy duty application environment that I put my Rigid shop vacs through, they do breakdown more often than if the application were more that the average user would subject it to. Besides, I believe we are pushing the limits of designed use of these machines.

What we simply do is to keep a new one in stock all the time because in our application, the shop vac is almost a part of our living, without which we cannot continue parts processing. However, we are cost conscious people as most people are and so when an old Rigid shop vac breaks down, before we discard it, we scavenge all of the good parts from it and keep it in our spare parts inventory bin for use later should the need arise for a replacement part.

What makes this really work is that we purchase the same model of the Ridgid shop vac every time and so there is no question that the spare parts we scavenged out of the broken down unit will work every single time. The good parts that we retrieve are the float, filter cage, filter plate, filter nut and the drain cap. Most of the other items seldom break in our application and so we get rid of them; except we store the drum itself to use it as a storage device.

Thus you can see that we recycle and reuse every single useful part out of our shop vac machine until they fail completely. Now that is economics in manufacturing.