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Thread Number: 27348
/ Tag: Recent Vacuum Cleaners from past 20 years
Flushing a Kirby G4 with water....Oh No..... |
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| Post# 306602 11/18/2014 at 14:50 (3,439 days old) by sptyks (Skowhegan, Maine) | ||
 This is the dumbest thing I've read in a while. I don't know whether to laugh or feel sorry for this guy:
Kirby G4 not working. I have a Kirby G4 vacuum from about 1993 and I recently vacuumed over a smelly patch in my carpet that left the vacuum smelling terrible. I proceeded to take the vacuum outside and flushed water through the whole system ( Under the impression that it was perfectly sealed.) I turned it on and off about 4 times during the flush out and on the last turn on - It didn't :(. I know it sounds really stupid that I did that. But I had to get rid of the smell, I couldn't stand it >:P So I am trying to get the face plate off and it seems as if it was put on with JB WELD!! I CANNOT GET IT OFF! I was very surprised to see how much water the g4 could flush out of its system. And yes, the smell is gone. So why is the faceplate so hard to get off? And nothing looks wet in the body, so why is the vacuum not turning on? Thanks, The CleaningVacuum.
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| Post# 306606 , Reply# 1 11/18/2014 at 15:17 (3,439 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center) | ||
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| Post# 306607 , Reply# 2 11/18/2014 at 15:18 (3,439 days old) by Marks_here (_._) | ||
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| Post# 306617 , Reply# 3 11/18/2014 at 17:20 (3,439 days old) by sbakerde (Millsboro, DE ) | ||
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Wow. Even duct tape can't fix stupid. SMH | ||
| Post# 306620 , Reply# 4 11/18/2014 at 17:32 (3,439 days old) by Marks_here (_._) | ||
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| Post# 306705 , Reply# 6 11/19/2014 at 13:14 (3,438 days old) by Marks_here (_._) | ||
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I mean some people think I'm peculiar because while wait for my mum to try something on I tore a rag several times near the ladies dressing room which caused a complete panic in there or taking a kiwi & rolling across the produce floor & yelling "MOUSE" which caused a scramble .... yep I guess that's normal washing out a Kirby G4
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Post# 306783 , Reply# 8 11/20/2014 at 02:54 (3,438 days old) by tolivac  (Greenville,NC) |
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Then there is the woman that tried to use her Dyson vacuum like a Rainbow-she insisted the fill line on the Dyson bin was for the water level! | ||
| Post# 306874 , Reply# 9 11/20/2014 at 18:48 (3,437 days old) by sptyks (Skowhegan, Maine) | ||
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| Post# 306880 , Reply# 10 11/20/2014 at 20:14 (3,437 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center) | ||
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I remember a story one member told here a while back! Whoever he was, he was a piano tuner, and went off to a client's house. he asked if they had a vacuum for him to use, and they brought him a Dirt-Devil Featherlite (That stereotypical filter-in-the-bin bagless model!). He turned it on, and noticed it had no suction. he turned around, and saw that not only was the filter SOAKED, but the bin still had water! He went on to say he could've been electrocuted, and that when some people see a clear bin, they think, "WET/DRY!!!!"!
And then there was the case of the man and his dry Filter-Queen.....
Somebody needs to make another vac-shop horror stories thread! | ||
| Post# 307085 , Reply# 13 11/22/2014 at 17:13 (3,435 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center) | ||
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| Post# 307106 , Reply# 14 11/22/2014 at 20:59 (3,435 days old) by Bikerray (Middle Earth) | ||
You mean my Kirby G4 isn't a bathtub toy ????
There was an Electrolux salesman around here that had just delivered a brand new Super J to this one woman. A couple of hours later he got a call from her that the Super J didn't work. He went back out there to find out her kids had sucked the water out of the toilet into the Super J. I think he gave her a new unit and told her not to let her kids near it. | ||
| Post# 307142 , Reply# 15 11/23/2014 at 11:11 (3,434 days old) by kirby519 (Wisconsin) | ||
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Super-sweeper yes it did infact live on to clean that home and the new home that was built until the central vacuum system was up and running. Now one of the other son's has it to clean his house. | ||
| Post# 307166 , Reply# 16 11/23/2014 at 15:27 (3,434 days old) by anthony (leeds uk) | ||
back in 1962
my mum was vacuuming the bedrooms with our Hoover Constelation .the phone rang mum ran downstairs to answre it leaving the connie running i stuck the hose down the toilet sucking all the water out [i was only five]needless to say mum was not pleased .When dad came in from work he dried the connie out as best he could he then put it in the airing cupboard for a couple of weeks .It was fine and is still going to this day
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