ProTeam Wet/Dry Vacuum Cart...
$24.99
Product details
ProTeam catalogs part 107178 as its Qwik Lock fine dust cartridge, the filter fitted to the ProGuard LI 3 cordless and the ProGuard 4 portable wet/dry units. The name is the important part: this is the dry-side cartridge for fine debris, and ProTeam publishes separate wet/dry and HEPA cartridges under their own numbers.
Fine dust is what finishes a cartridge like this one. Drywall sanding, ash and plaster pack into the pleats rather than resting on the surface, and once packed they will not tap or shake free. The machine keeps running while airflow at the nozzle falls away, and the motor note climbs as it pulls against media that has closed up.
Check the cartridge before concluding the vacuum has a fault somewhere else. Pull it and hold it up to a light: pleats that are grey the whole way down, or that stay grey after a rinse and a full dry, are done. A cartridge that has been through a wet pickup it was not built for often shows mineral residue in the pleats, which behaves like a permanent partial clog and is not worth trying to rinse out.
Let a rinsed cartridge dry completely and store it somewhere it can breathe rather than sealed in a bag. Moisture held against the media between jobs invites the same restriction as refitting it damp, and on a portable unit that gets thrown in a van between sites, that is the easiest failure to avoid.
- Part: 107178, Qwik Lock fine dust cartridge filter
- Fits: ProTeam ProGuard LI 3 cordless and ProGuard 4 portable
- Use: dry fine debris, with separate ProTeam cartridges listed for wet pickup
- Symptom: falling airflow with pleats greyed through, or residue that will not rinse away
