Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

With over 200 reviews there's not much else to offer, but I made some modifications to mine that made it a bit more useful and addressed two of it's biggest cons. First, I got the three Shop Vac brand 14" extension wands, to extend the reach of the short hose and save me from bending over. I then mounted 3 sections of 1.5" PVC pipe cut into 9.5" sections on the bottom of the canister.This gave me a place to securely store the 3 wands and strengthened the base a bit, in case it gets dragged around in rough ground enough to eventually wear through the canister. To mount the PVC, I used six 1/4" carriage bolts and washers on the pipe side, with bonded sealing washers (metal washers bonded to thick rubber washers) and hex bolts inside the canister. The smooth round end of the carriage bolts inside the pipe acts to lock in the wands a few inches before the end, and they slide in and out easily but stay in securely. Next I took the little dusting brush that Amazon says is frequently purchased with the 3 extension wands. I wanted to keep this tool with the vac along with the included nozzles. Just as I went to screw in a pipe strap to hold the brush to the vac (a setup I didn't really care for), I noticed the the outlet/blower hole. The brush fits tight in there and solves another annoying thing about this vac. The air outlet tends to blow things around, particularly for a right hander. With the brush in there, it directs the air flow up and away from the material you're trying to vacuum, and diffused the air stream as well. All told I think the mods cost me around twenty bucks, and added just a little weight and height to the vac, but really increased the vac's usefulness and convenience, at least for me.