It's all too hard. I think it's easier to stick with the old Ryobi blower attachment on the Ryan powered lawn hornet that works quite well even if it's length can get in the way. Not sure I even want a vacuum.

Makes me wish I tried to get going the Ryan powered MTD blower vac I found and kept in the yard for years before throwing it away. It had a huge fat diameter blower shute.

Ahh, if only victa had kept producing the thumblatch catcher series, they would be in better shape today!