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Thread Number: 30758
/ Tag: Recent Vacuum Cleaners from past 20 years
Amway CleratTrak |
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| Post# 340606 , Reply# 1 1/3/2016 at 23:34 (3,035 days old) by DesiredName (Utah) | ||
Good quality vacs! They have an early design of the dual cyclone, with no cyclone shroud. It was a copy of James Dysons dual cyclone setup. I don't think it worked quite as efficiently as his though. I like the look of the Cleartrack. Very 80s looking. Is she going to get another? You can still find them online!
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| Post# 340608 , Reply# 2 1/4/2016 at 03:28 (3,035 days old) by Amway_ClearTrak (Honolulu, Hawaii) | ||
My time to shine!
The Amway ClearTrak is a great cleaner. Either though Amway stole the design from Dyson, it is still really good. Hopefully you kept you ClearTrak. If you did you can go to this website. www.cleartrak.com... . They still make parts for the ClearTrak and CMS-1000. If you want to get a new motor it is gonna cost around $100 for the motor. You can also get a refurbished ClearTrak or their Workhorse vacuum. (WMJ refurbishing now owns the rights to the ClearTrak and has rebranded it into the Workhorse). Now, with my experience with it I have to say it is a great vacuum. I like the height adjustment and it can deep clean pretty well. The filters aren't too bad until they start to have dust on them. Usually you don't see dust go into the filter area until the dust in the collection bin gets almost to the halfway mark. I hope this was helpful to you! ;)
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| Post# 340702 , Reply# 3 1/5/2016 at 10:53 (3,034 days old) by FantomFan (Rochester, New York) | ||
They are OK
As long as you keep the filters below the Cyclone clean, they are fairly good cleaners. Carpet cleaning performance won't beat a Kirby or Royal but it still cleans fairly well. I like that the cyclone assembly is very easy to take apart and clean. Suction power isn't great, as are Fantoms but it's enough for most cleaning jobs. They are fairly robust as well with a thick cord and sturdy plastic. The handle is awkward though and should be longer. I bought mine NOS on ebay last year and have used it probably about a dozen times.
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| Post# 340703 , Reply# 4 1/5/2016 at 10:58 (3,034 days old) by dysonman1 (the county) | ||
I have both the ClearTrak and CMS1000 models. The lack of the shroud is a huge problem, as it lets threads and fluff into the high efficiency cyclone. Amway STOLE the design before Dyson had a chance to invent the shroud. The seven amp GS-built Dirt Devil motor provides adequate suction, but nothing like the airflow and suction of a Dyson. For their time, they were groundbreaking. They were made obsolete in 1993 with the launch of the DC01 Dyson - a far better "amway" than scamway ever had. The fact that scamway got Bissell to make the CMS and ClearTrak for them (while Dyson patents were still valid) says a lot about the design.
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| Post# 340721 , Reply# 5 1/5/2016 at 13:24 (3,034 days old) by Amway_ClearTrak (Honolulu, Hawaii) | ||
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They did not use 7 amp motors.
All Amway vacuums used 3 HP 8 amp motors. The motors in the Amway ClearTrak used an 8 amp lamb motor built from Ametek. I think the motor in the CMS-1000 was an Ametek too but I'm not sure. But from all the Amway vacuums that I checked, they all had 8 amp motors. Why are you saying they used 7 amp ones?
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Post# 340766 , Reply# 6 1/6/2016 at 03:05 (3,033 days old) by tolivac  (Greenville,NC) |
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8A 3Hp????How do they get this figure?an 8A 120V universal motor would only be slightly over 1Hp.A 3Hp universal brush motor would need a 20A outlet to run it.IE Milwaukee or B&D core drill press motors.These were TRUE 3hp motors! | ||
| Post# 340792 , Reply# 9 1/6/2016 at 12:30 (3,033 days old) by Amway_ClearTrak (Honolulu, Hawaii) | ||
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| Post# 340859 , Reply# 10 1/7/2016 at 10:53 (3,032 days old) by dysonman1 (the county) | ||
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The CMS1000 used a Dirt Devil motor (the DD that used type C bags), which was rated at 7 amps. When the CMS was a new cleaner, we had a scamway dealer near us who sold a bunch of them. The motors all failed quickly due to the clogging filter. The Scamway doesn't work properly since it doesn't have a shroud, a VERY necessary part to the entire system. Scamway Corporation couldn't steal that part from James since he hadn't invented it yet when the design of the cleaner was stolen from him. I replaced all those motors with 7 amp GS-built Dirt Devil motors because the DD motors were exactly the same (even to the part number) of the motor I tool out. Bissell (who made the Scamway machine) used GS motors in their shampooers and cleaners at that time in history.
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| Post# 340903 , Reply# 11 1/7/2016 at 23:05 (3,031 days old) by Amway_ClearTrak (Honolulu, Hawaii) | ||
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Shroud Shroud Shroud.....
Yes I know it's all important. "a VERY necessary part to the entire system" . I could literally put some fine mesh wiring over the cyclones holes and call it a "shroud". But seriously when the collection bin is empty, no dirt goes into the filter. When it starts to get halfway almost to the fill mark, thats when the dirt starts to go in the filter. But I rarely see hair or large fluff go into the filter tray. The manuals were pretty detailed to about the filters. That's why there are still a tone of Amway vacuums out there. The ones that are broken are just people who are too lazy to change the filters. Or they just completely abuse the vacuum.
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| Post# 340921 , Reply# 12 1/8/2016 at 10:02 (3,031 days old) by Kirbysthebest (Midwest) | ||
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"The ones that are broken are just people who are too lazy to change the filters. Or they just completely abuse the vacuum. "
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| Post# 341346 , Reply# 13 1/14/2016 at 19:41 (3,024 days old) by s_matt37 (Utah) | ||
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Most people are pretty lazy with filters.... | ||
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