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Which of the Dyson vacuums has been your favorite? |
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Post# 150648   9/6/2011 at 21:24 (4,586 days old) by hoover1 ()   |   | |
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My favorite would have to be my DC04, or my DC07. |
Post# 150651 , Reply# 1   9/6/2011 at 21:42 (4,586 days old) by kirbyloverdan (Egg Harbor Twp . NJ aka HOOVERLOVERDAN ❤️)   |   | |
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Post# 150654 , Reply# 2   9/6/2011 at 21:48 (4,586 days old) by vacman117 (Chicago, IL)   |   | |
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Post# 150658 , Reply# 3   9/6/2011 at 21:55 (4,586 days old) by floor-a-matic (somewhere)   |   | |
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DC23 TurbineHead |
Post# 150708 , Reply# 4   9/7/2011 at 07:29 (4,586 days old) by twocvbloke ()   |   | |
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This one, cos it makes me laugh, both the "design" to make it look like a kids toy, and the failure, of course... :P CLICK HERE TO GO TO twocvbloke's LINK |
Post# 150709 , Reply# 5   9/7/2011 at 07:42 (4,586 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa)   |   | |
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Post# 150733 , Reply# 6   9/7/2011 at 11:01 (4,586 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA)   |   | |
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Post# 150759 , Reply# 7   9/7/2011 at 14:34 (4,586 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa)   |   | |
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Hi sorry but thats a bit far fetched , In all my years working on vacuums and as a vecuum cleaner engineer I have never seen a motor catch fire like that , not unless something was added to it , petrol , turps .
The dc01 had a thermal cut out on it that would cut out the power the minute it starts giong bad , some smoke but thats it.
those machines also use a amatek motor wich is rather indistructable, the machine will fall appart way before the motor does.
Don't believe every thing you see on U tube , Just watch myth busters |
Post# 150775 , Reply# 9   9/7/2011 at 16:36 (4,585 days old) by Brandon_W_T ()   |   | |
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I LOVE the Motorhead DC23 and the DC28 airmuscle. I want one SO bad! |
Post# 150784 , Reply# 10   9/7/2011 at 17:11 (4,585 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa)   |   | |
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I was in charge of motor development & saftey testing at one of the company's I worked at , we would run a new motor to distruction , hundreds at a time , with and without thermal cutout , not once did I ever get a motor to thow out a flame like that , I got them to explode , implode , melt, smoke , lots of smoke but never catch fire.
I will say utube is full of guys who fix things to make thier vid look good, I am a huge dyson fan I love them , I sell and service them for a living , a customer came to me the other day to trade in her kirby as she said her son showed her a clip on u tube of how brilliant a dyson was compaired with a kirby.
In the clip you see the guy vacuum up cat fur with a kirby and then with a dyson , the kirby leaves almost all the fluff behind.
will that was easy to manipulate simply undo the belt on the kirby, their is no way a kirby was going to miss that amount of cat fur she bought a dyson any way as it was lighter but I told her to keep her kirby there is nothing wrong with it.
as a mater of interest why does every one compare a kirby to a dyson , they are in to totally differant brackets , like compairing a Rolls Royce to a Merc, both great cars but totally differant brackets |
Post# 150820 , Reply# 11   9/7/2011 at 21:06 (4,585 days old) by floor-a-matic (somewhere)   |   | |
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Either the Kirby had any of the following problem(s): Belt disengaged or not on No brush roll Very worn bristles Clogged bag tube Broken fan Otherwise, it'll beat any plastivac! |
Post# 150830 , Reply# 12   9/8/2011 at 00:38 (4,585 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa)   |   | |
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Thats my point , you can't trust u tube , by the way it was a sentria so I'm thinking it was a disingaged belt to make the vid look good.
Dysons are fantastic machines considering there cost. you don't need to fake an test to make one look good.
Half the stuff posted on utube pitting one machine againts another is more trickery than any thing else. |
Post# 150832 , Reply# 13   9/8/2011 at 00:49 (4,585 days old) by bimmer740 (Long Island, New York)   |   | |
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I dont own a Dyson and it has been a while since I have used one, but the last time I used a Dyson the DC17 was the newest model and I thought that it cleaned much better than any of the previous Dysons available in the US. Even though its all plastic it did seem to be well constructed and the suction was pretty good. I'm a Kirby or Electrolux Upright kind of guy, I dont care for on board tools/hoses, but using the hose on the DC17 and the previous models was much easier than I thought it would be as I didnt have to "fight" with the hose to use it. It certainly was much easier to use the hose on the Dyson than compared to something like a S/P Windtunnel and it has a reach that was probably 3 times greater than the Windtunnel. I know their is a large different in price between the Hoover S/P and the Dyson but the tools on the Dyson were far superior to the crapy Hoover tools, so I guess you do get what you pay for.
I've noticed from Dyson's website that they no longer offer the electric powered motor head canister in the US. It seems the only canister with a "power nozzle" is the turbo nozzle machines. The majority of canisters marketed in the US have an electric power nozzle and its been that way for the past 30+ years. I was wondering if anyone has any inside information as to why Dyson would no longer sell their electric power nozzle here especially when the US seems like the perfect market for an electrified power nozzle. |
Post# 150844 , Reply# 14   9/8/2011 at 05:11 (4,585 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa)   |   | |
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Post# 151051 , Reply# 17   9/9/2011 at 15:33 (4,584 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa)   |   | |
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thats because the turbo master and power are direct air vacuums , like Kirby , Sanitaire , Royal .
I love the turbo master , my mom had one but they and the turbo power were a bit like the early eighties Japanese cars the engine would last forever but the body would fall appart in weeks.
Some were I have a pic of me in a workshop with about 30 turbopower& turbo master vacuums standing in rows waiting for back casings. I remember when I first started to repair vacuums in the mid nineties it my dad and I would go down to hoover and fill up the back of our station wagon with those back casings each week.
I do love the turbo master and power , I have a turbomaster in my collection complete and at least another 10 needeng back casings , dito with the turbo power, I'm looking for a nice red one now
Give your dyson a service with new brush belt and filter and I bet it will put your turbo power to shame |
Post# 151091 , Reply# 19   9/10/2011 at 05:07 (4,583 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa)   |   | |
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I agree the older direct air vacuums are better in certain ways , the trouble is that they blow much of what they have picked up straight back into the room you have just vacuumed ,
what model dc07 do you have a standard one orone with brush control, interestingly the USA versions have much better pick up than the UK versions due to a wider opening on the soul plate and a stiffer brisstled brush |
Post# 151092 , Reply# 20   9/10/2011 at 05:11 (4,583 days old) by HOOVERMANMICK ()   |   | |
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here it his the hoover freedom thats beats the the rest with a 750 watt motor CLICK HERE TO GO TO HOOVERMANMICK's LINK |
Post# 151093 , Reply# 21   9/10/2011 at 05:20 (4,583 days old) by HOOVERMANMICK ()   |   | |
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standed dont like the brush control ones your power supply is it 240 volts CLICK HERE TO GO TO HOOVERMANMICK's LINK |
Post# 151094 , Reply# 22   9/10/2011 at 05:25 (4,583 days old) by HOOVERMANMICK ()   |   | |
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heres my other friend CLICK HERE TO GO TO HOOVERMANMICK's LINK |
Post# 151095 , Reply# 23   9/10/2011 at 05:32 (4,583 days old) by HOOVERMANMICK ()   |   | |
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heres the hoover freedom CLICK HERE TO GO TO HOOVERMANMICK's LINK |
Post# 151096 , Reply# 24   9/10/2011 at 05:36 (4,583 days old) by HOOVERMANMICK ()   |   | |
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hoover freedom s CLICK HERE TO GO TO HOOVERMANMICK's LINK |
Post# 151111 , Reply# 25   9/10/2011 at 08:30 (4,583 days old) by SuctionSelector (Leeds, England)   |   | |
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Post# 151118 , Reply# 26   9/10/2011 at 09:50 (4,583 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa)   |   | |
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Post# 152589 , Reply# 27   9/22/2011 at 21:27 (4,570 days old) by MysteryManBob (New Port Richey,FL)   |   | |
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Post# 155863 , Reply# 29   10/18/2011 at 05:04 (4,545 days old) by MikeKLondon ()   |   | |
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Mine went in the bin after only 6 weeks what a pile of junk |
Post# 155874 , Reply# 30   10/18/2011 at 08:35 (4,545 days old) by sleepdoc (St. Louis, MO)   |   | |
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Post# 155976 , Reply# 34   10/19/2011 at 01:03 (4,544 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa)   |   | |
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Weather it keeps the dirt fluffy or not is not the point , you don.t have to spend a fortune on bags, in My house we used to fill a milele vac bag twice a week. Lots of animals
I have a vacuum shop here in SA and we sell dysons And other makes and are the Dyson accredited service agents for SA. the reason why the cyclones get clogged is that people overfill them. My oldest dyson a dc07 has never once had a clogged cyclone yet I get about3 a week in for just that. customers are lazy they make it so easy to empty the cyclone and yet they still wait till its overloaded.
I worked as a vacuum design engineer and even the company I worked for ( probably the biggest appliance company in the world ) admitted that the dyson was way better than there products.( internally of course)
I have spent most of my life working on designing and testing vacuums and nothing I have ever seen comes close to the all round convenience of a dyson. There are some that clean better but they use bags and those bags loose ther suction after each room you vacuum. So they only clean better in one room if that!
Here in SA like everywere else in the world the people who knock dyson and other bag less vacuums the most are the vacuum repair agents, wonder why , OH YESS thats why they loose revenue from selling bags
Bags are the bread and butter of a vacuum shop , repairs take time new sales are ok but you can make more money off bags in a day than sales of new vacuums there is no trying to sell the customer a vacuum , its just I need bags for a ...... and bam money made. Its good revenue for me too , especially miele bags but I won't bad mouth a machine just because it doesn't use bags , allot of the bagless vacuums out there are pretty alright to aslong as you clean the filters.
Its a trade off but its your choice
washing filters or spending money on bags as far as I am concerned the one is as bad as the other. |
Post# 156273 , Reply# 36   10/21/2011 at 14:35 (4,542 days old) by SuctionSelector (Leeds, England)   |   | |
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Post# 156288 , Reply# 37   10/21/2011 at 16:40 (4,541 days old) by baglessball ()   |   | |
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What's your FB? |
Post# 156337 , Reply# 39   10/22/2011 at 07:02 (4,541 days old) by kenkart ()   |   | |
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Dysons at the Goodwill Outlet, 5 bucks a piece, I bought them, cleaned them up and gave them to Ron Jones, They aggravate me , but then about any upright does! |
Post# 156391 , Reply# 40   10/22/2011 at 12:11 (4,541 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa)   |   | |
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I can't wait for the dc41 to arrive here. I have a dc23 and we are suposed to sell them in our store but I never have, the turbine head is not very reliable we repair and replace them allot. I love my dc27 really nice and MY new dc15 australian model. really nice colors. Much more powerfull than the uk versions I've had
I took this pic in our showroom
please excuse the writing across the pic its going on our up and coming website and was already edited |
Post# 156393 , Reply# 41   10/22/2011 at 12:14 (4,541 days old) by baglessball ()   |   | |
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It somehow doesn't look as bulky in those colours? |
Post# 156400 , Reply# 42   10/22/2011 at 12:21 (4,541 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa)   |   | |
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Post# 156994 , Reply# 44   10/26/2011 at 13:19 (4,537 days old) by parwaz786 ( )   |   | |
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by the way the dc04 i bought was brand new £160 what a bargain! its quiet, grooms well and lifts carpet its awesome! hose suction is very good too |