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| Post# 284016 , Reply# 1 6/10/2014 at 20:06 (3,598 days old) by TASE (Colorado) | ||
Crappy bin with a Eureka filter screams quality.
Theses things require you to clean the filter nearly every time you use the vacuum... It's a pointless and stupid design. I don't see why a $1.25 bag is so hard for people to buy that they would spend $50? $100? What is he asking now-a-days? This has been a thing on Vacuumland for a long time. It's a bad invention. | ||
| Post# 284024 , Reply# 2 6/10/2014 at 20:37 (3,598 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center) | ||
if you're willing to spend $99 on 2 pieces of PVC and a Eureka Optima bin, knock yourself out!
The 'Keeler Krap' as they're called is terrible. That design was never meant to be under positive pressure. ALL the dirt you vacuum will be forced into that tiny filter! Before this, Keeler sold a self-propelled kit in the 1980s. It was a Hoover power-drive stuck on a Kirby! There's a video on YouTube of Keeler going on and on about that bagless conversion kit! It's even filmed in a poorly green-screened warehouse to boot! There was an old thread here on vacuumland years ago that Keeler made, called 'CUSTOMERS LOVE THE KEELER BAGLESS KIT' or something like that. I doubt the Kirby experts we are would buy the junk he tried to sell! | ||
| Post# 284034 , Reply# 5 6/10/2014 at 22:39 (3,598 days old) by DesiredName (Utah) | ||
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| Post# 284046 , Reply# 7 6/11/2014 at 03:43 (3,598 days old) by Turbo500 (West Yorkshire, UK) | ||
Mr. Keeler signed up to VL once and started shouting the odd's about his bagless Kirby unit, making out like it was the greatest invention since...well, since the vacuum cleaner!
He was completely unprepared to deal with any kind of criticism or to be challenged on his product. When he was, he became quite defensive and, at times, nasty. He couldn't offer any information to defend his product when he was questioned about it, refused to acknowledge anyone who disgreed with him that it was the most amazing invention ever (in reality, it's not really an invention. It's just a TTI bagless unti mounted on the end of a Kirby) and fobbed all of those who did challenge him as idiots. Quite frankly, I'd have had more respect for the man if he'd put his hands up and said "yes, it has design flaws, it's not perfect but it's designed to save on buying bags and that's what it does". Like others have said, it's a nasty, clogging, high maintence filter in a plastic tube. It's not even cyclonic, all the dirt just sits in it and sticks to the filter, requiring constant maintenance. Whilst it would be useless to actually use it in the home, it would make for a great demo tool. | ||
| Post# 284065 , Reply# 11 6/11/2014 at 11:06 (3,598 days old) by marks_here (_._) | ||
In that video he never says where to clean any of it. I'm sure as heck not going to take a brush to the filter in my nice clean kitchen...lol plus how does one try to clean under the coffee table. With this he forgot to mention that you will have to hire furniture movers to move the furniture while you vacuum??? Seems like more hidden issues that come with this that were not disclosed. Just my thoughts...Mark D.
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| Post# 284080 , Reply# 12 6/11/2014 at 15:20 (3,598 days old) by anthony (leeds uk) | ||
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