Cool Diverter: Save Time Switching Your Insulation Vacuum Bags
Cool Machines constantly innovates to bring efficiency and safety to the insulation equipment they manufacture. The Cool Diverter is one of the most impressive ideas that is well received by our customers. It is a simple device that saves wear and tear on your equipment and gets your crew out of the attics faster. Here’s how!
The Cool Diverter Saves Time When Switching Bags
The CoolVac16 and CoolVac23 will fill a standard 72 cubic foot (6ft x 4ft) bag in about 12 minutes. The CoolVac37 and its Diesel counterpart will fill a standard bag in 6 minutes, max. If you are not using the diverter, you will be shutting down your machine to check the fill level of your bags and making the switch. Shutting down your equipment takes time. Removing the vacuum bag takes time. You can some time switching bags. It’s not a very fast process. If you are extracting a 2,000 sq ft house, you can expect to shut down your vacuum, remove and replace these bags almost a dozen times.
The Cool Diverter lets you place two vacuum bags in place. When one bag fills, you switch over to the other bag, instantaneously. Then, while the other bag fills, you have plenty of time to remove the other bag and put a new bag in place.
The Cool Diverter Protects Your Equipment
Shutting down a vacuum and then restarting it multiple times on a job will create wear and tear. Starters will wear out faster. Clutches will burn out more often. If your battery is weak to begin with, you may have trouble restarting your vacuum. You do not want these things to happen while working.
The Cool Diverter Also Works with Large Dumpster Bags
While the Cool Diverter makes your job more efficient with the 72 cubic foot bags, it is also helpful with dumpster size bags. These bags have multiple openings. We like to connect one hose to the front opening and one to the back opening. When used properly, these bags need to be filled from a couple of different openings. The front opening will pack up, leaving the back of the bag less full. Fiberglass and Rockwool tend to collect and pack without spreading throughout the bag.
The Cool Diverter’s Main Value is that it Protects Your Employees
While I am saving this for the last point, it is the most important one. In an attic that exceeds 100 degrees in the summer, it is very important to not waste time. Without a Cool Diverter, you will be shutting down every 6 minutes and waiting for a bag switch. Your extractors are sitting in the heat for longer than they need. We hear from our customers how valuable this accessory has been.
If you are interested in adding this accessory to your vacuum, we can help. Cool Machines offers two sizes, depending on the size of hose you are using, either 6 or 8 inches. If you don’t own a Cool Machine, you can still use it with your setup.
Recently, we took the CoolVac37 to remove pine straw from the flower beds around a house. We laid the hose on the ground and raked the straw into the hose. It pulverized the straw into a vacuum bag. 5 bales of straw were chopped into a bag that wasn’t very heavy to handle.
A landscaping company in New York contracts one of our customers to remove mulch. He takes his CoolVac25 Diesel out in the fall when there is a need for these kinds of removals.
Cool Machines CoolVac37 has a powerful 37 horsepower Briggs/Stratton Vanguard engine. It powers a belt-driven fan blade measuring 24″ in diameter by 4″ thick. The blade is 1/4″ thick AR500 steel. With these physics, you would expect this hog to be extremely noisy?
We visited TempBlocker in Wilmington, North Carolina to see the vacuum in action. The vacuum performed as expected. Two people were in the attic extracting at the same time. This vacuum had so much power that they never noticed a lag in performance. One benefit was having a vacuum of this magnitude that would not bother the neighbors.