[Salesi]

Does anyone have experience with the best material to use for a crash pad for a bee vacuum? I use a set of buckets with a screen at the bottom and have been using a cut up sponge which works but could be better. I need a one piece that allows air to flow through it. Anyone have any suggestions and where did you get your material. Thanks.

 

[Knisely]

How about a circle of foam (cut from a sheet of foam that would have been used to re-upholster a chair or stuff a pillow), cut to fit the bucket diameter (that's simple), and having it suspended above the bottom of the canister on a small rack (perhaps a circular rack of the kind that you might cool baked goods on) that permits air to be sucked through the entire diameter of the foam circle. Would that work?

 

[Tenbears]

2" thick furnace filter. The material is called filter floss. I got mine from a fellow who has an auto body shop, they use it as a particle filter for the paint booth.

 

[Flewster]

I use a piece of burlap crunched up in bottom.