You are right Sean. Not the cheapest option and the foam sleeve I have came with the original 20 gal vac so that would be an extra as well. I mentioned them because I have used the same one to clean my wood heater for 10 years now and it is still in good shape. Wrapping a piece of wool over the paper element would substitute for the foam sleeve and probably be better as well. I guess that for ease of use and proven durability the 14 bucks a pop seems reasonable to me.
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I don’t know what the value is. I paid 3 bucks for the shopvac it was only a 5 gallon one and it blows drywall dust… Im not sure it is going to last very long. A new one was like 30 bucks at the time… But now that you mention it, I think I might have some open foam that I could use, and use the paper towel trick. I just have to take it apart and clean out the dust before it kills the poor thing. 
I actually need to use it for a project because I don’t want to kill my good one.
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Just saw this today. Was posted by a Filipino IKEA that an overseas friend shared. Was obviously for April Fool’s.
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I forgot Ridgid makes a washable shopvac HEPA filter vf6000. If you combine it with their prefiter bag, it removes 99.97% of all particles 0.3 microns and larger from the air. The flow rate for the hepa filter is 183cuft/m. (I am assuming the hepa filter is made of borosilicate glass)
*you didn’t mention it, but it jogged my memory. I was going to do drywall/cement grinding with my already screwed up shopvac and put it outside, but the hepa filter might also be useful for a cheap very small laminar flow hood for stuff like orchid cloning rather then 300+ for a proper filter (which admittedly is significantly better) but 60 vs 300 when I need a few more things to pull this off. .
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I’m an absolute sucker for seafood! State opened up a late season clam dig, weather was blowing like mad 40mph winds and driving rain but we scratched out a few razor clams, a poor dig but didn’t go home empty handed. Stopped at Brady’s oysters and picked up a bushel for tonight, wanted to thank my stepdad for letting us move in with him and a seafood feed is good for both of us. Weather was to crap for pictures or video on the beach, I’ll try again next time. Crabbing season is almost here
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It is great to have family that will help the family out. It gives us all hope for this world we are living in.
Bob
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Apparently oyster shells are needed as a calcium source for laying chicken hens. I found that out this week from one of my kids ‘i want a chicken’ presentations, all done up nicely in google slides. I don’t really like oysters or else going to make her dig for them would be beneficial. 
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All our oysters shells get ground up for dads chickens, they love pecking through the stuff
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I thought you swallowed them whole. I always wondered how you choked that outer casing down. I assumed a lot of beer.
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I prefer mine fresh shucked on the half shell, right out of the ocean is the best. But I’ll take them grilled just till it pops open and dipped in butter or a touch of cocktail sauce. The razor clams once cleaned get eggwash and panko bread crumbs and flash fried in peanut oil. Some of the best shellfish in Washington in my opinion only topped by dungeness and redrock crab
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I do not know if this is the right thread to write in, do not think it looks like summer here.
Have almost half of the panel sawn I think, always something.
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Just quit looking like that here yesterday Jan. Now again, instead of white and dismal we are brown and dismal. Been damp and gloomy 90 per cent of the time.
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Life goes on summer is kinda tricky on the earth we live on. It is Summer coming here in the Northwestern area of Washington State and it is winter winter coming in South America and Australia, New Zealand. May be K.I.S.S. and make it" life goes on 2022" we all funtion under the Gregorian calendar as a standard. @Chris
Bob
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I looked at the photo and without reading the post I thought.
Hmm…
Strange looking pickles…
Why are they in the bottom of this sink’ did he break the jar?
Where is he getting cucumber this time of year?
Those don;t look very nice…
I think I am going to read on and see what happened.
HA HA
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I know nothing about alien food sources Wallace. I tried to figure out why they had things sticking out of the shell. Thought maybe they were just really happy, in that certain way.
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" Happy as a Clam "
Now I get it…
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This is off topic and nothing to do with wood gas.
About 10-12 years back Chris spent a few days with me while we worked on his truck. I mention to some retired friends of mine that has a get together each week picking and singing that Chris was just learning the banjo and asked if they would take him under there wing and give him some pointers .
After just a minute some of the guys put his guitars down and watches Chris . Quickly they knew this was not Chris’s first rodeo. 
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Chris is that clawhammer picking or more like Scruggs picking? Earl Scruggs was born in the same county as me, when you ride into Shelby they’ll show it off on the welcome sign.
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Wish it wasn’t raining cats and dogs outside. I’ve been wanting to practice my stick welding. I’ve been wondering if because I had my lunch pail connected to only a 15 amp wall socket if that hindered my arc striking. Now that I found the 20 amp plug I can re try it.
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That was a treat. Are those hooks up on the walls and are those for hanging up chairs. Seems like I’ve seen something about that before. Southern thing right?
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