Fein Dustex 25

The prefect workshop cleaner – Yes, I know it's just a vacuum cleaner. But wow, it is fit for purpose, and that purpose is to keep your garage/workshop/toolshed or any other hostile environment clean. Yes, I am on one those people that used to think a regular household vacuum cleaner will suffice and that spending $600 on what is essentially a big orange plastic bucket with a motor is somewhat excessive. Well after the 3rd time de-clogging and cleaning my household vacuum cleaner convinced me to look for something better and the Fein Dustex 25 is what I found.

This is a superb and tough workshop vacuum. It's quiet with plenty of power. It comes with brush and crevice attachments, plus a flexible rubber end piece that easily attaches to most workshop tools. The dust mitigation is exemplary especially for sanding.

There is a substantial filtering (large surface area) system within the chassis that needs to be washed from time to time, but it does not clog easily. I grinded an entire concrete garage floor with very little concrete dust escaping. The bags are a little expensive, but well worth it as they are designed to allow maximum suction but also provide an additional filter barrier.

A really neat feature is an electrical socket for the tool you are working with. This allows the vacuum to sychronise it's on off with the tool. So you don;t have to manually turn the cleaner on/off.

Great product.

Quite performance - solid build – I have been seeking a quality vacuum for dust and general shop vacuuming. Also wanted lowest possible emissions at most reasonable price. After trying a cheap $100 vac from the Good Guys I bought the Dustex 25 HEPA. This model comes with a HEPA filter certified to removing 99.984% of particles in 0.3 micron range. I use the machine with a bag as well and pre-filter through a cyclone to remove most of the dust so the bag and filter stay clean. The machine is reasonably lightweight, compact size and is very quite and powerful compared to other vacs that I have had. So powerful in fact that my first attempt using it with my home made bucket cyclone caused the bucket to collapse each time I used the machine. I have now built a solid 18m wooden box for the cyclone! The components have quality solid feel, especially the 4m 38mm hose and the rubber end connections. So far love it.