Well done Beko - I'm sure you will be well happy with a Sebo X1. Good old fashioned German reliability, and built like the proverbial brick **** *****! Always good to get a bargain, and bags are a reasonable price for them as well!

They are very easy to push round, I find. I suppose Mr Hoovers94 is right when he says they don't feel like they are doing anything, but if that was the case then the bag would still be empty after your cleaning session. An upright doesn't need to be hard to push to do any good, as you prove. If the Sebo X series was no good, then I don't think it would have been in constant production for the last 23 years, virtually unchanged - its actually an older design than the Hoover Turbopower 2 that Mr Hoovers94 cherishes so much.

Yes Mr Hoovers94, so it appears. It also appears that you are finding out how fragile and brittle the parts of these vacs is - re the back wheel on your TM disintegrating. Good luck trying to find another one, they are as rare as TP2 brushrolls!

No matter how sturdy you think a TM is, I can guarantee it isn't as sturdy as a Sebo X series, as they are not made with that brittle plastic that Turbopower 1's and TM's were made with. The TP2 was a great improvement in the plastic quality over the 80's designed machines, it was also better quality than the Dyson DC01 that outsold it back in the day.

Yes, they may be more TP2's surviving, but with parts for them now nearly non existant, how much longer will they be around for? I still cant get over the fact that you cant get a brushroll for a TP2 any longer, but then again, no-one fixes anything any more in our throw away culture. its all about selling more new models now than fixing old ones. Anything that increases the profits of the fat cat companies like TTI and Dyson

Yes Alex, but you know the feeling - your wheels have broken on the Turbomaster, and they are obsolete now, so that machine is now pretty useless for want of a wheel. Not even Qualtex make them. Since the recession, so many companies have gone bust or had to scale back on what they produce to avoid going bust, so now we have great difficulty keeping old models on the road. Its sad, but makes it more fun trawling ebay for old parts to fit our machines. When you eventually find what you are looking for its very satisfying!

Think how you felt when you found a 1997 Purepower Autosense - it was like hitting the jackpot, a rare machine that no-one else has, and the seller posted it to you. Then I can imagine that sinking feeling when you opened the parcel and that flaming Royal Mail had damaged it in transit, and the subsequent trawl to then find a new chassis.

Its the feeling you get when you find a rare machine and win it that keeps us collecting more and always on the lookout on ebay for bargains. I spend hours on ebay looking through thousands of machines for that odd diamond in the rough, and when one comes up, its very exiting!

So, I say never throw out an old rare vac if you can at all help it, because one day, that elusive part might just crop up on ebay to fix it with. Put it into long term storage in the loft and always keep an eye out for the part it needs.

That's happened to me as well with the signing in business on ebay, and I have lost an item over it as there wasn't enough time left to sign in before the auction ending, so I now always re-sign in before I need to make a sniper bid in the last dying seconds of an auction.

You could try - but I don't think Espares will have any, nor will Buyspares, as I tried all my suppliers the other night when I was trawling for wheels for your TM. I had no luck, and I think the only way you will get any is if you buy another Turbomaster machine and break it for parts. Its like owning an old car, you have to go to the breakers yard to find parts off other old cars to fix your own.

Ah, nice to see another member has finally discovered that SEBO cleaners are a cut above! I discovered that too. I just love using my Sebo's. My Dysons are all now relegated to the back of the loft. I will still keep them though, as at the end of the day, they are still vacuum cleaners, and they were made in a time when Dysons were actually quite good.

My X4 is just a good old fashioned bagged upright, with no balls, and no cyclones, and by god its a good cleaner. There will come a day sadly when SEBO replace it - I just hope they don't replace it with something not as good. The X series is a timeless classic.