<div dir="ltr">When I read the article, it appeared to me that this shutdown is just of their manufacturing facilities in Williamsport, PA, not Shop-Vac as a whole. They have manufacturing facilities in Binghamton, NY as well as China.<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.northcentralpa.com/business/shop-vac-is-closing-hundreds-of-employees-to-lose-jobs/article_22df06ee-f77a-11ea-b643-0bc122c9e71c.html">This article</a> seems to indicate that it is Shop-Vac as a whole, which I'd find quite surprising, given the ubiquity of their products! Then again, it is hard for manufacturing companies to manufacture when the Pennsylvania government prevents employees from working....<br><div><br></div><div>-Peter</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 8:43 AM John Innis <<a href="mailto:jdinnis@gmail.com">jdinnis@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I recently tried a dust deputy in line with my shop vac.  I have been amazed at how well it works.  It stops about 90% of the dust and particulate before it even gets into the vac.  I used to have to replace my filters every couple months.  Have been using the same filter now for six months and it still looks like new.  I bought the deluxe kit that comes with casters and is supposed to bolt on to the side of the shop vac, but I didn't like how they had that set up, so I made a cart to stack the dust deputy on top of it.  Overall I am very happy and I plan to buy another one to use with my other shop vac in the basement.  <br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 10:42 PM Jimmie Mayfield <<a href="mailto:mayfield%2Bshoptalk@sackheads.org" target="_blank">mayfield+shoptalk@sackheads.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hopefully we'll still be able to buy bags that fit.  I'm a big fan of <br>
using drywall bags in my shop-vac.  They do a great job of catching dust <br>
before it can clog the HEPA filter.<br>
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On 2020-09-15 22:07, David Scheidt wrote:<br>
> Shop-vac rather abruptly shutdown, apparently for good, today.<br>
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> <a href="https://www.pennlive.com/business/2020/09/shop-vac-abruptly-closes-williamsport-facilities-leaving-estimated-400-jobless.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.pennlive.com/business/2020/09/shop-vac-abruptly-closes-williamsport-facilities-leaving-estimated-400-jobless.html</a><br>
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