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Post# 248804   9/2/2013 at 15:58 (3,887 days old) by vegassucks ()        

Makes me want a Lindhaus, some believe their brush roll is so superior that the suction is more than adequate?

WHO IS LINDHAUS?

Location - Overview of Padova
Lindhaus is located in Padova, Italy. It is about 30 miles west of Venice, along a technology corridor that stretches between Milan and Venice. This area has been called "little Japan" by business writers for its world class quality, progressive manufacturing and superb engineering.
Rotafil
Rotafil is the parent company to Lindhaus. Rotafil manufactures about 800,000 commercial duty universal frame motors per year. 200,000 of these motors are manufactured for European OEMs that send their product to the North American market.
Rotafil started in 1960 as a precision machine shop. Within a short time after starting the business, the shop began to specialize in making parts for electric motor winding machines. This specialization led to full time motor manufacturing.
Even today, Rotafil manufactures its own winding machines and automated equipment. As a leader in modern methods of manufacturing motors, Rotafil has pioneered the use of computer integrated winding and testing equipment.
The founder and family patriarch, Vincenzo Massaro is dedicated to continually improving the manufacturing capabilities, product performance and product quality by ongoing research and development of new generations of motor manufacturing equipment. It is his vocation, hobby and perhaps obsession to build the best universal frame motors in the world.
By far, the vast majority of Rotafil sales come from non vacuum cleaner business. The motors are built for high end dish washing machines, electric chain saws and commercial equipment such as bread mixers and door openers. No motors are sold to American manufacturers of vacuum cleaners as the service factors and cost of our motors is beyond their requirements.


All R and D test equipment and production testing is done by state of the art computer operated equipment. While assembling motors does take experienced and caring hands, computers track all performance and quality parameters.
Lindhaus vacuum manufacturing is also located in Padova, Italy adjacent to Rotafil. This new building has increased our capacity four fold. All employees are uniformed and many have customized their workstations in order to work more efficiently. There are many employees with 20 to 30 years of service and some second generation employees. Wages are on par with union workers in the United States. Benefits and vacation time surpass their American counterparts.
Lindhaus
The Lindhaus vacuum cleaner division was started in the mid-80's with one goal: engineer and build the best domestic and commercial vacuum cleaners in the world. This was a logical new division for Rotafil as they had saturated the market for high-end vacuum motors and brush nozzle motors. Also, many of the partnerships that they had forged with their motor customers involved application of motors to all plastic appliances and vacuum cleaners.


The oldest son Michele Massaro (the chief motor engineer) was sent back to school to learn plastics and electronics engineering. Vacuum cleaners were brought in from all over the world to decipher what were usable ideas and what should be avoided on this new generation of machines.
As with their motor manufacturing philosophy, the latest in manufacturing equipment and tooling was purchased to support the new designs. The actual plastics tooling was purchased from the same firms that tool for Mercedes and Ferrari.
Manufacturing started slowly with the demanding European domestic market as the first target. Shortly after entering this market, major worldwide commercial manufacturers took notice and contracted with Lindhaus for variants of the domestic machines for private branding.
Today, Lindhaus is still dealing with these same worldwide commercial manufacturers and others, but we have now designed new commercial specific machines for their applications. The client list reads like the "Who's Who" of world commercial cleaning manufacturers.
While Lindhaus is a powerhouse in the commercial arena, they have continued to design and pursue the household vacuum cleaner market in the United States and Europe with the same commercial technology learned in the preceding years. This program has been very successful.


Lindhaus USA
In 1992, Lindhaus opened a warehouse/office facility in Minneapolis, Minnesota to distribute domestic, commercial and health care vacuum cleaners to the North American market.
Due to the rapid growth of the company, it became necessary for Lindhaus USA to obtain a larger facility. In 1997, Lindhaus more than quadrupled the size of its warehouse and office space and in 2000 expanded once again.
The goals of Lindhaus USA are simple:
Bring to the North American public, vacuum cleaners that are technologically years ahead of the current machines being sold in this market.
Establish the Lindhaus name as the high quality trademark in the home and healthcare industry.
Develop a strong, solid base of quality-minded independent dealers that will raise the expectations of


Post# 248806 , Reply# 1   9/2/2013 at 16:02 (3,887 days old) by beko1987 (Stokenchurch, United Kingdom)        

Having used a Lindhaus UK machine in a comemercial environment, with lots of deep pile carpet, I agree, their fugging brilliant! If I ever see one for easy money I'll get one!

Post# 248820 , Reply# 2   9/2/2013 at 18:13 (3,887 days old) by bagintheback (Flagstaff, Arizona)        

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Reading this inspired me to get out my Lindhaus PN and try it on my new plush carpeting. Paired with my Electrolux, this is one fantastic power nozzle. It really grooms the fibers while being very gentle. In comparison, the PN6 I normally use seems to aggressively dig while mostly sweeping, but with the Lindhaus, you can feel it beat the carpet inches away!  The Lindhaus also has a large center air path with chevron brushes, so it is designed with efficiency in mind.

 

I'm now curious to see how their uprights perform. Does anyone own a Healthcare or Valzer? 


Post# 248913 , Reply# 3   9/3/2013 at 07:59 (3,887 days old) by Blackheart (North Dakota)        
Did someone say lindhaus?

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They are pretty good vacuums overall i often compare them to Sebo they perform a little better than their sebo counterparts but are not as durable.

The healthcare pro is a nice machine pretty quiet not too heavy good height adjustment but it's stretch hose really cuts down airflow something about the interior of it really restricts flow so i replaced mine with the older style hose whcich increased the airflow.
The strength of lindhaus is their power nozzles I once did a power nozzle test where my Lindhaus PB-14 performed the best.
The activa line has poor airflow but the spiral shaped brush still allows it to pull up a decent amount of sand.

My experience with the Aria is very limited but when hooked to the baird meter it pulled a 6.5 which makes it the most powerful powerhead canister i've measured yet. I have heard that they are not very user friendly, mostly due to the non swiveling hose but perform very well.


Post# 249052 , Reply# 4   9/4/2013 at 12:25 (3,885 days old) by dressur ()        

I like the R2D2 looking unit I talked with Lindhaus and they said that machine was discontinued, but the new one looks like a great machine I like the motor that is in the power head I was reading somewhere. that they are totally rebuildable. So are the suction motors I was told... not sure but that story was interesting. I would love to have a Lindhaus.

Post# 249053 , Reply# 5   9/4/2013 at 12:32 (3,885 days old) by Blackheart (North Dakota)        
R2D2

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You must mean the HF-6 it looks like a very sturdy machine but it's not nearly as powerful as the Aria it pulled a 2 or 2.5 on the meter compared to the Aria's 6.5

Post# 352566 , Reply# 6   5/21/2016 at 09:26 (2,896 days old) by n0oxy (Saint Louis Missouri, United States)        
aria and hf6

When I got my hf6, I was told it was more powerful than the aria, I think they may have introduced a new model of the hf6 though. I also have the pb 14 pro power nozzle, it's a very good power nozzle, probably as good as the Sebo or Wessel Werk power nozzles.

Post# 352602 , Reply# 7   5/21/2016 at 18:33 (2,895 days old) by Blackheart (North Dakota)        
HF6

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I'm not even sure when i took that measurement. I've owned 1 HF6 and it was a filthy machine which was clogged and needed bearings. It had looked like they used it without a bag. The pre motor filter crumbled at my touch. There was a layer of foam after the motor which was clogged to hell. So if i took the reading off that machine I'd say it wasn't a good indication of it's abilities. I did learn though this Thursday that Lindhaus balances it's motors using notches that are cut into the fans as well as a washer, if they are ever brought out of alignment the motor vibrates horribly. Which explains why i had more issues after replacing it's bearings.

They do still produce the HF6 i just saw a new model with an aria like hose and a power nozzle at a dealer. I wonder if they stayed with the 2 stage motor or moved to a single stage.


Post# 352784 , Reply# 8   5/25/2016 at 16:16 (2,891 days old) by n0oxy (Saint Louis Missouri, United States)        
hf6

I'm not sure about what motor is used, it has a bit of the higher pitch sound, so it would not surprise me if it was just one stage. Mine actually came with a straight hose, but it is able to take an electric hose to work with a power nozzle, I've tried to find the electric hose on line but so far no luck.


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