Fein Turbo I Wet/Dry Dust Extractor, Ultra-Quiet Vacuum - 5.8-Gallon Capacity, 151 CFM Suction, Anti-Static System, 13 ft Hose, 19 ft Cord, Includes Hose and Filter - 92035236090

High quality and not made in China

This is great vacuum for use in remodeling. (I guess the correct term is 'dust extractor") Great for use with sanders. It is powerful , at the same time it is light weight, easy to maneuver, has a very long and light weight hose. Very strong air flow, which works extremely well with keeping dust to near zero when used with a quality sander, such as Festool.I have a Festool 'dust extractor' as well. However, the Fein is at least as good, if not better, and cost about half. Yes it cost a lot more than a basic wet-dry vac. If a basic wet dry is what you are after, then this may not be for you. If however, you are looking for something to use with attaching to sanders, or your tracksaw, this will give you superior performance over a basic wet-dry.If you are on the fence on this one, go for it. You will not be disappointed.

Compact. Quiet. Sucks like an anteater on steroids.Bags could be less expensive, but each fill up takes quite awhile.Be careful what you sweep around. If you don't want a part ending up in the trash, pick it up before you sweep or this thing will pick it up.It's expensive, albeit, well worth the price. I do wish they would package the accessories with the machine and you just swallow a little harder when you buy the whole thing.

I purchased the Fein Turbo 1 after researching quiet shop vacs and shop dust collection systems online. It was one of the few that actually gave a decibel rating. My old shop vac ran at 97 decibels, which required ear protection. The Fein is rated at 67 decibels. My phone-based app reads it at 74 decibels, but that's still much better than 97! I don't even feel the need to wear ear protection with it.I find this smaller Fein shop vac to be every bit as powerful as my old, much larger shop vac. The supplied 1 1/4" vacuum hose chokes it down and makes it a bit quieter, but, to my surprise, I could attach a 2 1/4" hose end to it without an adapter. The inlet is designed to accept the Fein twist-lock fitting, but the larger hose fittings will friction fit just fine. I'm surprised Fein doesn't advertise that fact. Maybe it's because they have a pricey set of accessories they want to sell.If you are hoping to use this unit for liquid pick-up, it will only be efficient for very small spills. When the liquid reaches the shut-off contacts, you will have less than 2 gallons in the tank - far less than the 3.4 gallons advertised.The Turbo 1 uses a fleece bag to catch the vast majority of dust, etc., but it also has an automotive-type pleated paper filter above the bag. The bags are a little pricey but they are much cheaper than paper filters. I use my Turbo 1 with an Oneida Dust Deputy cyclone unit in my basement wood shop. The Dust Deputy catches 99% of the sawdust and the fleece bag catches the rest. Very little dust ever makes it to the paper filter.The Turbo 1 is compact and has an integrated bin on top to hold small accessories or tools. It has worked out great for my application.Update!I have used this Fein shop vac for over a year now, and it has held up very well. Using it in conjunction with my Oneida Dust Deputy, I have collected several 5-gallon buckets of sawdust in that time. The fleece bag eventually collects enough very fine dust that performance is affected, especially if you use it with a palm sander. The bag will last a very long time if you're only collecting larger sawdust from saws. The paper filter is still the original, and still looks pristine.I love the accessory electrical outlet feature. I can plug in any tool requiring 6 amps or less. When I start the tool, the vac comes on automatically. It stops 15 seconds after I turn the tool off.

I'm happy I made this purchase. I made a few modifications and I have one suggestion and one gripe.For the most part this unit is a real workhorse and very welcome in my shop or, as pictured here, on a project site. The vacuum is strong and the exhaust air is clean. The filtration system holds on to the fine particles and air is significantly cleaner than it was using my old ShopVac.The black square power supply automatically turns on the vacuum when you have a power tool plugged into it and turn on the tool. I use this feature all the time. Very handy.I would suggest to Fein that they offered a different switch mechanism for the HEPA dust hammer feature (over the black square plug used by the auto-on power supply feature. As-is, the hammer is automatically turned on every time you turn on the machine. With this feature on, it activates a sort of hammer system that bangs the HEPA filter out every 30 seconds or so. This is great if you're collecting fine dust particles because it keeps your HEPA filter cleaner longer. With this turned off and no other filtering, fine dust would gum up your HEPA filter pretty quickly.When the Fein Turbo II is coupled with a Dust Deputy like you see in my first photo, the HEPA hammer feature is not really needed. Most material gets caught in the Dust Deputy. A little breaks through to the filter bag inside the mail unit. Virtually nothing gets to the HEPA filter. I would turn that feature off by default if I could, but I can't. If anyone else uses the vacuum, I need to explain how to turn off the HEPA hammer feature or suffer the continual banging noise in the background.The room you see pictured had a recently demoed ceiling and I was reusing a lot of the 1/2' drywall as part of a new soundproofing project to add mass. The Rotozip I used to cut out the old drywall (vs pulling it down) created a lot of drywall dust. The FeinTurbo II had no trouble cleaning it up - though, unfortunately, the vacuum didn't attach in any way to the Rotozip itself.I was blowing through liner bags quickly before I bought the Dust Deputy (attached) in December 2020. This Dust Deputy unit is a must for me & keeps the cost of operating the Fein HEPA system a lot lower. I fashioned a platform from 3/8" ply to mount the two-bucket Dust Deputy system on top & the assembly works well. The odd shape of the Fein top made securing a custom platform for the Dust Deputy easy. The orange bungie in the back came with the Fein unit. I just pulled it up and over the plywood platform.The hoses you see attached come from two different units. The skinny one is the one that came with the Fein Turbo II. The fat one was cannibalized from my ShopVac. This brings me to my gripe.Fein Turbo II comes with a hose system that is in no way easily adaptable to its environment. The Fein hose and adapters work perfectly together, but try to attach the hose to my Ryobi site table saw, my Dewalt miter saw, my Bosch router and router table, or my Porter and Cable jointer, my DeWalt orbital sander, etc. and you'll find yourself returning to Amazon over and over again to find the right adapters. Even with the collection pictured in the second photo, I don't have a good solution for getting suction in front of my thickness planer and some of the smaller hand power tools. If the unit operated in a Fein vacuum (pun intended) it would get five stars - or if they had an adapter kit that allowed me to connect to the majority of my power tools, I'd advise buying it, then raise my review up to five stars.The 4-step adapter that Fein sells just doesn't get the job done. I think I might use it for my orbital sander, but that's it. If you look closely at the Fein/Dust Deputy assembly photo, you'll notice that I needed to remove couplings to make the 1 3/8" hose fit the Dust Deputy. I had to remove the coupling from the Fein 1 3/8" hose that went to into the vacuum port and essentially "stuff" the ShopVac hose over the hole. I had to "stuff" the Fein hose into the Dust Deputy adapter leading to the cyclone. While all of this works with a little patience and persistence, it's a MacGyver rig.I would like the Fein unit more if it was universally adaptable to all of my tools and shop equipment. At this price point, I can't understand why it didn't come with some universal adapters.Hopefully someone from Fein will see this and say "Hey... we have the kit for you <insert link here>," but in the mean time, you might might to pick up a roll of duct tape and a few adapters if you want this unit to work in a well diversified shop.

Happy with the performance. Sanding in the house and barely any dust. Go for the next size up, also you will want the accessories