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Thread Number: 17760
Compact C-8 Frustration |
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| Post# 192649 , Reply# 1 8/1/2012 at 05:46 (4,279 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield & London) | ||
At 6 foot 4 inches  | ||
| Post# 192657 , Reply# 3 8/1/2012 at 08:18 (4,279 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield & London) | ||
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Size isn't everything
Actually Kevin, you raise a very interesting point and you are correct in that your height is much closer to the market that cleaners aimed at than mine.
For me Convertables, DAMs and Concepts are all fine although DAM feels close to borderline. Old style Juniors (with a fork) and "coffee cans" are also fine, later style Juniors are on the other side of border line although I have used them many times. Our Lux models are acceptable too. Hoovers with the "classic white" floor tool are always a bit problematical for me in that, although the two wands look long enough (there was only one UK made model with a telescoping wand) the angle that the have to be held in to maintan the nozzle on the floor means I have to hold the handle with my arm almost straight down my side, which always feels wierd. Hoover models with a more angled nozzle connection have never been a problem and UK Lux cannisters have been fine as well. Al | ||
Post# 192658 , Reply# 4 8/1/2012 at 08:19 (4,279 days old) by Vinvac  (Dubuque IA) |
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Kevin,
There are many folks here that love Compact and the tools. I am one who doesn't. I am in agreement with you about the tools. I have never thought of them as being to long...but rather the angle is all wrong. Using a Compact is very hard on my back. The bare floor tool and carpet tool are my least favorite tools. Give me Eureka tools any day. I experience the same problem with Hoover tools. Using the bare floor tool, which is not a bad tool, but the angle is all wrong...you have to hold the wand almost straight up to use the tool... The new Tri-Star (Compact) is not bad...I actually repaired one for a church member a few weeks ago. It seemed like a very user friendly vacuum. Tools are very Electrolux like. Morgan | ||
| Post# 192664 , Reply# 5 8/1/2012 at 09:52 (4,279 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield & London) | ||
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Morgan
If I might ask, what height are you please? Actually I was not clear in what I wrote above - I meant the "classic white" carpet/rug nozzle not the floor nozzle. I should mention though that memory tells me that the telescoping wand is not as long and two single wands - the arrangement we are most familiar with here. On a point of comparison I dont recall any problems using our Parnall 10/10 (late 1950s/early 1960s) which has identical tools to your Eureka models of the same era. My Tristar is an older model identical in shape to the Compacts - I did not have any problem using that either (I only have a PN rug nozzle) - indeed I was always very impressed with its performance. Al | ||
| Post# 192871 , Reply# 7 8/2/2012 at 18:57 (4,277 days old) by vac-o-matic (Saint Louis, Mo.) | ||
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I hear ya! Kevin, years ago I had a red TriStar with the setup you speak of and I also found it to be a bit tall, and I'm 5'8". It always felt like the power nozzle went on into the next room way before I did! I sold it to a fireman friend of mine who was about 6'3", he thought it was great! | ||
| Post# 196233 , Reply# 8 8/19/2012 at 21:30 (4,260 days old) by compactc9guy (Bathurst NB) | ||
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| Post# 196241 , Reply# 9 8/19/2012 at 22:12 (4,260 days old) by eurekastar (Amarillo, Texas) | ||
 Kevin, it sounds like you have the older Eureka made power nozzle. It did require an adapter in order to work with Tristar/Compact wands. You might try one of two things. Switch to a newer style Tristar power nozzle that doesn't require the adapter. That will shorten the overall wand length. Or you might try buying new Eureka wands. But if you do that, you'll need to drill an extra hole in the upper wand in order to match the position of the lock button on the Tristar/Compact hose. Doing that will again shorten the overall wand length by also eliminating the need for that adapter. | ||
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