Another project that has been waiting...
So I have a "Shop Vac" vacuum cleaner that I "scored" years ago while doing the handyman thing. And I also built a centrifugal filter from an old paint bucket, some will remember that post from about 3 years ago...
Anyways, they have always been a PITA to move about. The bucket falls over, the shop vac falls over, the pipes get kinked, all sorts of stuff. And they take up a whole lot of space as well. I have seen stuff on YouTube on woodworking channels about making vacuum stands. I just never got around to it.
But today I removed the wooden shelf-jobbie from my closet when I put the shelves in, and that's when I got the idea to use it for my vacuum trolley... The shelf jobbie cost me nothing, I picked it up off the street, and instead of returning it to the street I decided to give it another purpose.
I took it all apart, and removed the casters too. Then I cut 4 sections of scrap 2x4 to 2-foot lengths and used them to separate the bottom from the top shelf. Then I refitted the casters, and added a bread crate to the top. Done

Oh, I did use the inside shelf as a backing just to keep everything rigid.

Now the shop vac sits at the bottom, and sucks the air through the centrifugal filter. This means that the stuff I vacuum up gets stuck in the bucket, keeping the shop vac canister clean, and more importantly the filter clean too. So it keeps sucking hard...

It takes up half the floor space it used to, and nothing falls over now, and hoses don't get kinked as easily.
