Hi,
We had an Hoover Junior vac for many years but it was hard on the expensive carpets and it was very noisy indeed so I decided to do a bit of web browsing and found the Hoover Henry's etc. have a good write up so I bought a standard Henry to try out; it has two suction settings; I tried it on the most powerful setting and it was lifting the carpet from the floor so it's now running on low setting which is fine; it pulls around effortlessly; it has tremendous reach; we live in a detached bungalow and if it's plugged into a socket in the front room it reaches the other rooms; the cable winder is also brilliant and it's amazingly quiet compared to the Junior also it doesn't beat the carpet to death so the carpets will last a lot longer; we've often seen these Henry's being used in local garden centers. This Henry is much different to use than an upright vac and my wife hasn't even used it yet because I don't mind Henry following me around.
Our Henry's are virtually new so I can't give long term evaluation but the domestic one is fine for the bungalow so I bought a commercial Henry for the workshop to replace the very noisy Record Power vac I've used and disliked for a long time; as I've stated earlier I'm connecting the Henry in the workshop to a cyclone which is still work in progress but I have run it with the cyclone and it sure tugs at my hand when I place my hand over the inlet; the hose isn't large diameter unlike workshop vacs which usually have the 4" hose; I'm sure for my needs though the Henry with cyclone will be OK; once I try it in anger I'll post details but my friend David is using a vac I gave him years ago and he already has a cyclone fitted to it saying it works a treat with very little dust/debris reaching the vac filter it dropping into the cyclone receptacle instead so the vac filters remains pretty clean. I think it will depend on what you want to use your vac for; if it's for use on a heavy planer/thicknesser will it cope with the volume of waste produced.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HENRY-HO...e=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649
I paid £17.50 less than shown because I had Nectar points I wanted to use. A workshop vac obviously is needed but on it's own it won't get rid of all the fine dust which lingers in the air; my friend has an air scrubber on the ceiling above his head in his workshop to collect the very fine dust; I'm unable to add anything like this to the ceiling in my workshop due to the ceiling being low but I can always wear a dust mask.
The three machines I want to extract from are vertical bandsaw; big DeWalt radial arm saw and my home made 4hp saw bench; these put out lots of the finer dust; I'll eventually try it on my 8" planer/thicknesser and my bigger 12" thicknesser but I've got quite a bit of work ahead making extraction for all the machines; I've got plenty of sheet aluminium and also a very nice Parweld Tig welder so once the weather improves I'm looking forward to some interesting work.
Kind regards, Colin.
What are the 620W machines like on suction? I'm becoming tempted to make an addition to the family.
We had an Hoover Junior vac for many years but it was hard on the expensive carpets and it was very noisy indeed so I decided to do a bit of web browsing and found the Hoover Henry's etc. have a good write up so I bought a standard Henry to try out; it has two suction settings; I tried it on the most powerful setting and it was lifting the carpet from the floor so it's now running on low setting which is fine; it pulls around effortlessly; it has tremendous reach; we live in a detached bungalow and if it's plugged into a socket in the front room it reaches the other rooms; the cable winder is also brilliant and it's amazingly quiet compared to the Junior also it doesn't beat the carpet to death so the carpets will last a lot longer; we've often seen these Henry's being used in local garden centers. This Henry is much different to use than an upright vac and my wife hasn't even used it yet because I don't mind Henry following me around.
Our Henry's are virtually new so I can't give long term evaluation but the domestic one is fine for the bungalow so I bought a commercial Henry for the workshop to replace the very noisy Record Power vac I've used and disliked for a long time; as I've stated earlier I'm connecting the Henry in the workshop to a cyclone which is still work in progress but I have run it with the cyclone and it sure tugs at my hand when I place my hand over the inlet; the hose isn't large diameter unlike workshop vacs which usually have the 4" hose; I'm sure for my needs though the Henry with cyclone will be OK; once I try it in anger I'll post details but my friend David is using a vac I gave him years ago and he already has a cyclone fitted to it saying it works a treat with very little dust/debris reaching the vac filter it dropping into the cyclone receptacle instead so the vac filters remains pretty clean. I think it will depend on what you want to use your vac for; if it's for use on a heavy planer/thicknesser will it cope with the volume of waste produced.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HENRY-HO...e=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649
I paid £17.50 less than shown because I had Nectar points I wanted to use. A workshop vac obviously is needed but on it's own it won't get rid of all the fine dust which lingers in the air; my friend has an air scrubber on the ceiling above his head in his workshop to collect the very fine dust; I'm unable to add anything like this to the ceiling in my workshop due to the ceiling being low but I can always wear a dust mask.
The three machines I want to extract from are vertical bandsaw; big DeWalt radial arm saw and my home made 4hp saw bench; these put out lots of the finer dust; I'll eventually try it on my 8" planer/thicknesser and my bigger 12" thicknesser but I've got quite a bit of work ahead making extraction for all the machines; I've got plenty of sheet aluminium and also a very nice Parweld Tig welder so once the weather improves I'm looking forward to some interesting work.
Kind regards, Colin.
