I'd like to see pictures of the shop vac hooked up to the buchner funnel, but I imagine its too loud for the house and I doub't it would work in the winter with the increased viscosity.
I'm kind of out of idea's on making a new net, net.com's flavors (Big Spirit) are so good and clean, hard to compete with. Right now I'm a bit obsesssed with trying a vaperite madagascar vanilla tobacco net. Its outstanding. I'm finding working with vanilla challenging, you can't just toss a piece of beeen in your PG maceration, I think that it leads to coked up coils.