I previously posted about 2 new Dewalt wet/dry shop vacuums, as well as new Dewalt filter options that fit them. Well, there are at least 2 more wet/dry vacuums on the way.
First, there’s the DXV10S, a 10 gallon vac with stainless steel container. It features a 5 peak HP motor, 90 CFM airflow, and 1-7/8″ hose size.
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- Built-in tank drain
- 4 swiveling casters
- 10′ power cord
- 1-7/8″ x 7′ hose
- 2 extension wands, floor nozzle, utility nozzle, crevice nozzle
- Cartridge filter and dust bag
This looks to be a somewhat competitively featured stainless steel wet/dry vac.
Price: $139
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There is also a DXV12P vac, with 5.5 peak HP motor, 12 gallon container, 105 CFM airflow, and 2-1/2″ hose.
It shares much of the features of the stainless model, as well as the other Dewalt plastic-container wet/dry vacs.
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- 5.5 peak HP motor
- 105 CFM airflow
- 2-1/2″ x 7′ hose
- 10′ power cord
- Tank drain
- 4 swivel casters
- Accessory storage
- 2 extension wands, floor nozzle, utility nozzle, crevice nozzle
- Cartridge filter and dust bag
This 12 gallon vac is quite a bit less expensive than the 16 gallon model, but lacks the hand cart-style mobility features. It also has a slightly less powerful motor and shorter power cord (10′ compared to 20′).
Price: $119
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Compare 12 gallon vacs via Amazon: Shop Vac | Vacmaster | Stanley | Workshop
Alton Industries, which also makes Porter Cable wet/dry vacs, shows off 2 more shop vacuums in the Dewalt lineup, including a 4 gallon handheld model.
Digging deeper, the full lineup includes:
- DXV04T 4 gallon handheld vac
- 6 gallon 4 peak HP poly container vac
- 9 gallon 5 peak HP poly container vac
- 10 gallon 5.5 peak HP poly container vac
- 12 gallon 5.5 peak HP poly container vac
- 14 gallon 6 peak HP poly container vac
- 16 gallon 6.5 HP poly container vac with large rear wheels and tall handle
- 10 gallon 5 peak HP stainless steel vac
Pricing will range from $79 to $199*.
* Alton Industries has the 16 gallon vac at $179, Amazon has it at $199, and nobody else has it listed yet.
Tom
The vacmaster link above took me to a 12 gallon model that has a detachable blower. That seems like a pretty cool feature. I think that Craftsman rebanded these for awhile, but I have never seen one in a store.
Stuart
You have to be careful about cool features like that. My Shop Vac has such a feature, but I never used it, and I miss not having a solid top handle. Pull up, and the motor pops up for blower mode.
Tom
That’s a really good point. I recently bought the Craftsman 12 gallon without the pull out feature. Using it with the optional bag and HEPA filter, is is a big step up from my black friday special that I’ve been using the for last few years.
Nathan
That 12 ticks a few boxes for me also – price is about right but I can find others of similar ability a bit cheaper. (HD – has the ridgid 16gal for sale)
I have to ask though – other than just nifty – what is the appeal of the SS tank models. The poly ones don’t leak and are just as chemical resistant.
pete
I have the SS ridgid model that you are asking about. Go with the poly tank. As you said it doesn’t leak and are more chemical resistant not to mention you suck something up and not worry about moisture rusting your tank out. It is stainless but it’s a cheap stainless and i’m always afraid i’m going to bend the rim out of round and the top won’t seal up any more.
The only reason i got the stainless tank was because i bought it private sale for really cheap and still in new condition.
fred
I can see no real advantages to SS over plastic – but there might be tradeoffs.
Maybe in a real cold situation a plastic drum might crack on impact – but a SS drum would be subject to dings and dents in all climates.
Plastic drums are mostly seamless – so cleaning them out might be easier if a SS drum had a bottom seam.
A metallic tank will feel hotter or colder to the hand than a plastic drum. This might be an issue if you touch a tank that’s been sitting out in the sun.
Then there is the issue of static discharge. Vacuum collection of dust is likely to come with a build-up of static charge. Maybe a SS tank would be easier to ground out to bleed off any static charge. But unless the manufacturer provides for this – jury-rigging some Rube Goldberg solution might be a bit of a chore.
Nathan
OK so I’m not crazy. I could maybe see a plumber wanting one but only if it was sturdy SS. Otherwise home owner me doesn’t need one.
fred
Interesting conjecture. We probably had 20 vacuum cleaners in our plumbing business. I don’t recall any of them having a SS tub. Most were ShopVac or Ridgid brand – plastic tub units. The only metal shop vacuum we had (apart from KO drums on stationary systems) – was a Milwaukee 8912, that used a steel drum and sat in a cabinet shop – and supplemented some Fein units – when we had some big mess to clean up.
In my home shops/garages – I have 2 older Craftsman shop vaccums, and 3 Fein dust collectors. My favorite is still an old Dalek look-alike Fein. All have plastic tubs that are still serviceable after many years of use
Jim Felt
Anything less then 304 or better yet 316 Stainless Steel is a waste of time for moisture caused resistance.
And no one would casually want to pay for that.
Though I’ve seen them infrequently in very specially fab and similar industrial applications.
That said plastic is the logical way to go. We’ve never lost one to damage in decades. We just “gift” them aware as new and better ones appear. As HEPA and seriously quieter models appear.
Noise is the seldom mentioned issue (let alone specification) with most all of these homeowner (cheap?) units. All are too darn loud.
Fein. Earlier big wheel DeWalts. Bosch. Makita. Etc. all offer great service life, repairability and quiet units.
Joe
Advantage SS has …..looks. Of course my Festool vac looks and works better. If your shop or garage is functional and looks badass…
Robert
Man those casters are tiny. That’s gonna be a pain to roll over construction debris and cords. I’ll stick with Ridgid. Might be good for a shop but center vac would be ideal over that anyways.
Jeffrey
I would be interested in knowing the operating noise with these. I had a Craftsman model a while back and although it was a good vac, it produced way more noise than I preferred.
Marc
I’m also curious to know how noisy these are.
Pete
WHAT?!
Jeffrey
If you have not experienced an annoyingly loud vac then your lucky.
Pete
HUH?! I COULDNT HEAR YOU! THE SHOP VAC WAS ON!!
Robin
If they want my attention, they need to release a high powered flexvolt cordless vac, cordless but with the power of a full size vac. They can easily do this and I have no idea why they haven’t yet. The current cordless is handy, but weak as hell. It fits the flexvolt batts which is nice, but other than reasonable build quality, the suction is underwhelming.
Corey
This! I’m holding out on a new large vac just waiting on a flexvolt! Also waiting on the new fv sds max rotohammer from world of concrete (13.3 joules), and aside from that the compressor is on my list next pay day lol after that though, I’m just waiting on fv again. Make the damn shopvac, DeWalt!
JoeM
If we’re being honest here, I thought the Stainless Steel one was a joke, or a product built by a fan. Much like that truly stupid AK-47 DeWALT Nail Gun that was made by a psychotic gun nut that liked DeWALT. Who or WHY would we want a steel drum for a Vacuum? If it sucks anything up with more than a gram of weight to it, it’s going to sound like gunfire off a tin roof!
And @Robin, I agree I’d want one of those, but they haven’t lost my attention. seeing these, it gives me more confidence that a FlexVOLT Vac of some sort is coming down the pipeline. They appear to be going down a list, of sorts, and making sure they release things in a way that doesn’t make the corded and specialty tool markets feel left out while they push FlexVOLT tools at the same time. Just look down the ToolGuyd feed a bit. Holiday stuff, Brushless Stuff, Outdoor Tools, FlexVOLT, Corded tools, Attachments, Bits, FlexVOLT, Etc. They seem to be on a kind of rotation with the release cycle. I would be genuinely shocked if a 60 Volt or 120 Volt FlexVOLT Vac of some sort wasn’t coming at some point. They just don’t seem to want to flood us with everything at once, so that we get to see every release, and give it an equal chance in the spotlight.
Admittedly, this means time-wise, we might not see everything we WANT from FlexVOLT for a couple years at this pace. But, it’s comforting to know the Corded, Air, and Hand Tool DeWALT users are in that same boat, and that DeWALT is at least TRYING to keep all of us going.
Nathan
would be interesting to see a Flexvolt x2 battery shop vac with power cord adapter like that mitre saw. I’d look at it but it’s probably not for me. Also as I’ve been looking at the dewalt shop vacs I can’t help but notice the ridgid’s seem to have stronger ratings for CFM and pressure. assuming they are remotely accurate.
Tool Of The Trade
Cordless Vacs, Dewalt! Cordless! Six to sixteen gallon! Dammit! Didn’t you get the memo?
Woodchuck
Stainless shop vacs are primarily for people who might use them to vacuum up ash or welding slag.. so any warm embers don’t melt the drum. And yes, I know you’re supposed to wait until they’re cool. But that is why people use them…not sure why nobody knows this.
Troy
This statement is not entirely accurate. Ash vacuums are a separate line of product with specialty filters and hoses that are both made for the finer debris and to withstand the embers. Yes, they have a steel drum, but not all steel drum are made for hot items.
Case in point, every year at black Friday Lowes sells a ~$40 ShopVac with a stainless tub. I certainly would not use it for embers.
I suspect the stainless tubs are a marketing gimick because they are “shiny.”
Nathan
SO turns out few houses down from me is a plumber, never met him until this saturday. He had a SS shopvac in the back of his truck so I asked him about it.
Discoloration. Apparently for him – the SS can is easier to clean and doesn’t discolor. So when it goes to someone’s house to trade out a toilet or whatever he’s rolling in a clean and shiny shop vac into their house – and takes it out looking the same way. He says disinfecting the plastic body ones and the like discolors them.
Makes a bit of sense – I’d swear his said vacmaster on the side of it. the flexible pipe material was thicker too. IE the wall thickness.
anywho not something I need at the house.
Altan
120v Flexvolt corded/cordless wet/dry stainless steel body vacuum cleaner is what DeWALT should make, price 500$ is OK for that. Should collect the wire with a button pushing it down like Miele vacuum cleaners, should have a storage for small accessories and also should have a place to rap the hose like some Festool vacuum cleaners. DeWALT , when you make something like this let me know!
rick
only reason to have metal is to prevent static build up, which could wreck havoc if your cleaning out circuit boards, etc.
TonyT
Well, you could have a vacuum made with ESD (static dissipative) plastic, but that’d probably cost more than a steel vac.
I’m pretty sure Nilfisk makes clean room vacs, and they probably make ESD vacs, but I’m too lazy to check.