Learn the General Safety Rules for a Shop Vac

Series Summary

There are almost no drawbacks to having a workshop in your own home - except for having to clean up. But even cleaning your shop need not be a burden, especially if you have a portable shop vac. A portable shop vac will help you efficiently, effectively, and very quickly clean up your workshop. If you have never used a portable shop vac, it is not that difficult to learn how. If you would like to learn how to use a portable shop vac, you can learn for free from one of our experts.

In this free how to video series, learn from expert Jon Olson as he teaches how to properly use a shop vac. Jon will give you free safety tips for using a shop vac and will teach you how to ground a shop vac and why that is important. Find out how to use a shop vac with extension cords, how to identify the parts of a shop vac, how to assemble the tool holder on a shop vac, how to use the wet pickup operation of a shop vac, how to use the blower feature on a shop vac, how to use the auto shut-off feature on a shop vac, how to troubleshoot problems with a shop vac, how to store a shop vac, and how to maintain a shop vac.

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Jon on behalf of Expert Village. In this video clip I'll be talking about general safety. First of all you want to make sure and take a look at your users manual for your own shop vac. The one that I'm going to be using in my demonstration probably differs from the one that you have at home. You want to make sure that you never operate this unit when flammable materials or vapors are present because this is an electrical device it can potential produce a spark which can cause an explosion. Now before opening up the tank of the shop vac, you always want to make sure that it is unplugged first. Lastly, you always want to wear eye protection that is approved if for any reason they're is rock or debris that is blown across it can potentially get into your eyes and can result in serious injury. So you always want to make sure that you have a good pair of safety glasses."