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Thread Number: 22284
Vax Turboforce V006 Trash Find! |
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| Post# 249813 , Reply# 1 9/11/2013 at 13:57 (3,880 days old) by ultraperformer (Derbyshire, UK, Europe) | ||
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| Post# 249818 , Reply# 2 9/11/2013 at 14:46 (3,880 days old) by jade_angel (Fort Collins, CO) | ||
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I have to wonder how in the universe someone lets a vacuum get that badly plugged. I think I'd notice something odd about the time the bin gets full, or it won't pull up any more fuzz. (And that looks like cat hair... If you've got cats, there's *always* fuzz!) | ||
| Post# 249821 , Reply# 3 9/11/2013 at 15:14 (3,880 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA) | ||
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| Post# 249822 , Reply# 4 9/11/2013 at 15:21 (3,880 days old) by adamthemieleman (North Yorkshire ) | ||
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We had one of these given to us. Kept making a burning smell. We thought it was the belt and we must have gone down several of them! We got rid of it in the end, it was unrepairable | ||
| Post# 249825 , Reply# 5 9/11/2013 at 15:26 (3,880 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa) | ||
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| Post# 249833 , Reply# 7 9/11/2013 at 16:39 (3,880 days old) by hi-loswitch98 () | ||
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One thing I love about the Turboforce is the ad on TV, it always sticks in my mind for some reason. I'd have probs given up on that wayyyyy before hand! | ||
| Post# 249854 , Reply# 9 9/11/2013 at 19:45 (3,879 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center) | ||
I do love those older Dirt-Devils, | ||
| Post# 249945 , Reply# 10 9/12/2013 at 01:46 (3,879 days old) by beko1987 (Stokenchurch, United Kingdom) | ||
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That dirt devil does look similar! Found a new set of filters and 2 belts for a fiver on amazon, as well as a new brushroll for £10 if the old one cant be saved! | ||
| Post# 249947 , Reply# 11 9/12/2013 at 03:29 (3,879 days old) by Ultimatevacman ( Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK) | ||
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| Post# 249974 , Reply# 13 9/12/2013 at 10:59 (3,879 days old) by dysondestijl (east midlands, UK) | ||
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Cool! I'd take any trash find I saw that I could get | ||
| Post# 249975 , Reply# 14 9/12/2013 at 11:05 (3,879 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA) | ||
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| Post# 249986 , Reply# 15 9/12/2013 at 13:22 (3,879 days old) by hi-loswitch98 () | ||
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That Dirt Devil on reply 8 is the Vax Swift in the UK. | ||
| Post# 249997 , Reply# 16 9/12/2013 at 15:25 (3,879 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2) | ||
Ugh looking at the way that clogged dirt makes me feel ill!
The Swift under the Vax branding was actually the second model from the original one that was sold under the Vax name. I remember it well as my neighbour had one (she now has an old Swift) as it was bright yellow and went under the name of "Vax Big Bubble," although I call it the "Big Bugg*r" LOL You could say it was the precursor idea to Hoover's Jazz upright in terms of the "fun" decals and colours. Also available in dark purple, (Vax VS-18) My neighbour owns a shop, so she took the old Swift and uses it there - I put her out of her misery and gave her my Electrolux Powerlite upright which is a great deal easier to push and has the manual height adjustment compared to DD/Vax's auto adjustment - at least the Turboforce has manual height adjustment. The Big Bubble/Swift are surprisingly tough vacuums though use the paper pleated cones and the hose at the front has a habit of snapping off, making it difficult to fit when required. Also that side partition stops the machine from going low to clean under low furniture. 
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| Post# 250012 , Reply# 17 9/12/2013 at 18:24 (3,878 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA) | ||
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| Post# 250218 , Reply# 18 9/14/2013 at 16:41 (3,877 days old) by dustin (Jackson, MI) | ||
We have the machines in the last picture as the Dirt Devil Breeze/Featherlite, and I can't say they are bad machines. I have owned one and repaired several, (none needing any more than a filter or belt), and when working properly, are very powerful. The Vax at the beginning of the post, we have that here as the Dirt Devil Vision Turbo, We had one at our church, and I wasn't overly impressed. It was definitely a screamer, it was heavy, and quite honestly didn't pick up overly well. If yours has the 3 row brushroll, it will probably eat belts too.
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| Post# 251028 , Reply# 20 9/23/2013 at 02:17 (3,868 days old) by parwaz786 ( ) | ||
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Wow! Awesome rebuyild, Just wondering, Whats your daily vacuum? Mines a DC14 red (Blitz it), if you were to sell that as refurbished you would get some good profit :D | ||
| Post# 251065 , Reply# 22 9/23/2013 at 11:39 (3,868 days old) by dysondestijl (east midlands, UK) | ||
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My friend has a vax turbo force with a snapped off wheel too! | ||
| Post# 251069 , Reply# 23 9/23/2013 at 11:51 (3,868 days old) by Ultimatevacman ( Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK) | ||
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