« Reply #10 on: April 15, 2012, 03:47 AM »
If you have bought six 5 packs of ct22 bags you could have paid for a long life bag and been done with it. That being said, $205.00 is an absolute embarrasment on Festools part. Not to bash my favorite tool company ever, but the longlife bag should come stock on all their vacs at that price point. The paper bags arent practical if youre any everyday pro. When faced with how much i would spend on paper bags for the rest of the vacs life, i couldnt afford not to buy the longlife bag, Eric
In my case 5 packs of CT22 bags would be about 3 years worth of bags, and i use my vac every day professionally, i just empty the bags 3-4 times before they wear out. I do this next to the hose of my DC system so i get no dust.
Has anyone used the same long life bag for at least 3 years daily? I am not certain yet of the real advantage of these bags, they are just a more rugged and easy to empty version of the paper ones, but they clog just the same and i suppose need a good beating as well to get a good part of the fine dust out of the fibers. I am not sure that using the same bag for a couple years is better than having 25 fresh bags over the same period, either for the machine and yourself.
No harm to the OP intended, but it made me smile to read in the first line of a review the words 'opened the package earlier today" , thats' more of a content description, make sure you post back about your experience once you filled it at least 25 times when you reach the ROI!

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