Vacuum Reviews

If this is available at the price quotes of under $20 its the best deal. Hoping that amazon.com keep up its word and send me 2 of these as per order for each of my floors- first and second.Nothing can beat it.

If you want to store larger things and you have the foodsaver vacsaver this is the way to go. Cost wise its pretty much the same as the roll but you don't have to mess with cutting and sealing. Cutting it straight can be a real pain at times. Unless your doing something really custom these should be big enough. I got the rolls and the gallon bags and discovered most of the time I ended up cutting the rolls to the size of the bags.

This is a wonderful product. It's very streamlined. It comes with a video that provides great how-to and secrets to food saving. This product also works on mylarbags (potato chip bags). It has a vacuum tube to be used on their accesssories/canisters. These are for delicate items, such as strawberries, lettuce, cereals. A compartment to store a food saver roll keeps everything within fingertip's reach. Value + efficiency + ease=wellworththe money. I've used it on many items and the bags are re-useable. Air will not damage any more of your food and will save you trips to the grocery store for fresh items.

I got this as an upgrade from the Vac 550. The main reason was to have the bag cutter built into the unit. Also, I liked the idea of the manual seal option with the 900. I am very glad I got a Vac 900. The bult-in bag cutter is quite handy -- scissors no longer needed. The Vac 900 looks very similar to the Vac 800 but has a couple of features over the 800 -- 1) the manual seal option. This allows one to switch the machine from drawing the air out of the bag to stop and then seal. This is really handy to store items which would ordinally be crushed (such as donuts). 2) hands free operation. To use the hands free operation on the Vac 900, one just pushes down on the lid a few seconds then releases. The machine then automatically shuts off when the seal is done. Like many of the other Foodsaver machines, the Vac 900 has an accessory port. Thus, one can use that with the optional mason jar sealer (which I use often). As an upgrade from the Vac 550, the Vac 900 offers very nice improvements to an already great machine.

I use my iBottle to carry hot beverages from home to the office. The bottle never leaks and keeps my drink hot for hours. Small enough to fit in my breifcase. I love it's sleek design and just unscrew the lid to drink.

WELL, I JUST GOT MY 6" JOINTER WITH ENCLOSED BASE. I GOT IT ALL ASSEMBLED AND JUST COULDN'T WAIT TO TRY IT OUT. THE JOINTER WORKED GREAT, BUT I HAD CHIPS IN A FOUR FOOT RADIUS THAT I NOW HAD TO CLEAN UP. WHAT A BUMMER, 5 MINUTES USING THE TOOL AND 30 MINUTES TO CLEAN UP THE MESS!

I HAVE A 12" BENCH PLANNER TOO AND AFTER ADDING THE DUST COLLECTION TO IT-IT IS NOW A DREAM TO USE! IN VIEW OF THIS, I RUSHED OUT TO GET A DUST COLLECTION FITTING.

THIS FITTING IS JUST FINE. MAKE SURE IT FITS YOUR CHUTE OPENING-CHANCES ARE IT WILL. DRILL SOME HOLES IN IT TO FASTEN TO YOUR ENCLOSURE AND YOU ARE ALL SET.

BUT BEFORE YOU DO ALL THIS, STUDY YOUR JOINTER AND LOOK FOR ALL THE OPENINGS. AFTER I RAN MY JOINTER, I FOUND CHIPS STILL CAME OUT THE OTHERSIDE. GUESS I WILL JUST HAVE TO MOVE A TRASH CAN ON THAT SIDE TO COLLECT THE CHIPS. THIS FITTING DOES KEEP ME FROM EMPTYING WHAT COMES OUT THE CHUTE!

These splice sections fit the 4" Woodstock International hose perfectly. The hose will not lose much vacuum if they are just slipped on, but affixing the hoses with wire clamps will make it more permanent.

There are two schools of thought for that proposition: if you just slip your hoses on the fittings, it will slip appart if you stumble over the hose while bumbling about your shop; if your hose is out of the lanes of traffic, clamp them to avoid having to crawl behind that stack of plywood to reattach them. If your tightly clamped hose is strung accross the floor, it will trip you, especially if you can't see the floor because you're proudly hauling that newly completed vanity cabinet in for your adoring wife's inspection.

Work Safely and Happy Dust Collecting!

Alex

If you make messes big enough to need a 4 1/4 inch hose for cleanup, you probably learned your trade in the Army. These clamps will keep your cleaning gear neatly bolted to the wall or ceiling, as needed.

Ok, I wanted a large widemouth thermos that kept hot food hot for as long as a one quart narrow mouth coffee thermos. Heat loss in thermos is from the stopper so bigger stopper, faster heat loss. Widemouth thermoses have bigger stopper, duh. Zojirushi is only company that gave numerical heat loss for widemouth thermos. Another site gave heat loss figures for a one quart Nissan narrow mouth coffee thermos (quality product also) and they are very simular performers. Both around 120-130 degreesF after 24 hour when starting with preheated thermos and filling it with boiling liquid and not removing any liquid in those 24 hours.

When I got it, first use I put it to was in thermos cooking. This works great for camping with minimal cooking fuel. Basically you put some rice, chopped vegetables, whatever in pan about the size of thermos, dont want food to be over third pan size and no huge chunks, want everything chopped small so it will cook thoroughly. Then fill pan close to top with water and bring it to rolling boil on stove, shut off stove and quickly pour contents of pan into preheated thermos leaving a little space at top. Close thermos, shake, and lay thermos on its side so food doesnt bunch up. The food will cook in the thermos if thermos holds heat for long enough period. Do this at night and in morning cooked food. One caveat, some food like rice expands greatly as it cooks. Dont use too much for size of thermos- no more than say quarter to third pound dry rice for this thermos if you are only cooking rice. If you experiment with thermos cooking start with small amounts of food and lot water until you get a feel for correct proportions of type food you are cooking. I mainly just wanted to try the Zojirushi so my first attempt was just cup and half of lentils and rest hot water. They were cooked when I opened it after 8 hour, but I was curious so closed it again and left it full 24 hour. The lentils were still hot and edible. I didnt use thermometer, but think the Zojirushi people were honest in their claims of heat retention. Probably around 120 degrees after 24 hour. The Zojirushi performed like a champ in my opinion.

I am not sure what about Zojirushi thermos/stopper is so efficient. The stopper does seem to create a slight vacuum on food inside the thermos. I would assume this helps insulate.

As to using for hot liquid where you are pouring off say cup coffee now and again throughout the day, it works to certain extent, but contents cool much faster because when you pour out hot liquid, that space the liquid occupied in thermos is replaced with cool room temp air. This then cools remaining liquid somewhat. When used this way, those last cups of coffee arent piping hot by any means. Maybe only real way to keep piping hot coffee for use throughout the day is to have three or four efficient small pint thermoses and use up one at a time.

Oh by way this 1.5 liter is identical to 1.3 liter in all ways except size. I would expect the 1.3 widemouth to perform simularly.

This is a very high quality Vacuum bottle. Just yesterday morning (7:00)I made it 3/4 full with hot coffee. By 9:00 that evening the coffee was still sipping hot. I drank 3 cups from it during the day. By 7:00 this morning (24 hours later) The coffee was still tepid (lukewarm). The unit has a wide opening for those who want to manually brew their coffee with a filter holder. It also has a very unique pour mechanism that keeps the liquid in a vacuum. To open the spout a red button is pushed allowing the opening to slide back.
The unit is very durable with a strong handle that pushes flat against the side for storage and pulls out to pick up for pouring. It also comes with a shoulder strap. I plan to buy a larger Vacuum bottle by Zojirushi in the future.