Vacuum Cleaner For Aircraft Cleaning?

[GeneralT001]

If you don't have a hangar what do you use to clean up the floor/carpet in the plane? I'm guessing a rechargeable vacuum cleaner?

If so, what brand/model do you recommend?

[Rick Junkin]

Here's what I use for both the cars and the airplane. I set it on a seat and go to town with it. LOTS of suction and capacity, and very easy to clean.

https://smile.amazon.com/Milwaukee-0880-20-18-Volt-Cordless-Vacuum/dp/B001AHMQ90/ref=sr_1_5?crid=I54HH5C6QCE9&keywords=milwaukee+vacuum&qid=1646928966&sprefix=milwaukee+vacu%2Caps%2C112&sr=8-5

You may be able to find it cheaper at your local Home Depot.

Cheers,
Rick

 

[A64Pilot]

I have one of those I’d like to sell, used in in the boat. don’t have any need for it mow, also have a Milwaukee circular saw, used once to cut some starboard that uses the same battery. There are a couple of very similar looking versions of these, an 18V and a 24V model, the 24 is much more powerful.

One thing that makes better than most is it’s also a very good wet vac, there are of course a series of Milwaukee tools that use the same battery.

Also another plan is to put a decent inverter in your vehicle and just run 110V appliances, I had one under the back seat of my truck that could run circular saws etc

Edited March 10, 2022 by A64Pilot

[thinwing]

i just picked op a dewalt wet vac..powered by their 20 v 4/5 amp batteries.Its much more compact in shape than the milwaukee and has 1/2 gal capacity.IT was good choice for me because I have a lot of dewalt power tools

[Fly Boomer]

My cordless tools are all Makita and, while I'm delighted most of the time, my wet-or-dry vac is not impressive.  Also, the battery cost as much as the vac.

[GeneralT001]

33 minutes ago, Fly Boomer said:

My cordless tools are all Makita and, while I'm delighted most of the time, my wet-or-dry vac is not impressive.  Also, the battery cost as much as the vac.

Yeah...thats something I just noticed...these cordless come without a battery? WTH?? Its like printers and ink all over again

[A64Pilot]

Pretty much all of these things come as “tool only” Reason is these bigger batteries are quite expensive and if you include a battery with every tool it’s priced too high to sell and of course you don’t need a battery for each.

Tske a look at a decent 2,000W pure sine wave inverter, I think they can be had for about $150 now and 2000W is enough to run any one thing that you can plug in to 120VAC. That’s 16 amps, normal outlet limit is 15 amps.

Then you could run an air compressor or vacuum or coffee pot or drill press or anything else you wanted to.

I started with DC tools on the boat and pretty quickly figured out that 120V tools were usually much cheaper and often lighter and higher quality. Just if you start running high amp loads like an air compressor or coffee pot for very long, you may want to keep the car motor running. 16 amps at 120v is 160 amps at 12V and a continuous 160 amp load on a battery is a pretty big load.

However the 24V Milwaukee is as powerful as a 120VAC vacuum, loud as Hell, but powerful. If anyone wants one I will let it go at a good price.

Cruisers use the Big 24V right angle Milwaukee drill with a special bit to power their winches, that drill will lift a full grown man up a mast, something that will wear you out if you do it by hand, so that's how I ended up with the Vacuum and the circular saw.

https://www.thecranker.com/the ultimate cranker complete web page.htm

Edited March 11, 2022 by A64Pilot

[Utah20Gflyer]

Most of the time I use a Ryobi cordless handheld vacuum.  It works good for a little clean up here or there.  When I wanted to get real serious I took a small generator and my large shop vac.  I only did that once though right after I bought the plane.  Handheld seems to do fine for regular clean up.