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Sanitaire SC889A

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Post# 296016 8/29/2014 at 20:15 (3,524 days old) by bagintheback (Flagstaff, Arizona)
Checkrate/Likes Has anyone had any experience with this model? The specs show the motor only operates at 69 decibels, which is wonderful compared to the traditional 79 decibel 7amp motor. It's not clear if this is accomplished by some sort of sound dampening material or the motor engineering itself. I've yet to try the new ST bags anyway, so I'm becoming a little tempted.... CLICK HERE TO GO TO bagintheback's LINK

Post# 296165 , Reply# 1 8/30/2014 at 20:28 (3,523 days old) by pr-21 (Middletown, OH)
Checkrate/Likes *I bought one...* Just for the motor. It is almost like a two speed low and high. Called a step down motor. I had this motor put in my Eureka Model 260 as shown in my profile. I let the vacuum shop have all but the motor in exchange for putting this motor in my 260. Nice st bag, it has a metal top, but is not shiny like chrome.... PR-21 Bud

Post# 296169 , Reply# 2 8/30/2014 at 21:33 (3,523 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada)
Checkrate/Likes I've been looking at the current line-up of Sanitaires in order to find a good one for my current work-place. It's my impression that Sanitaire no longer offers a model with a headlight. Why have they done away with headlights? Too many cracked lenses in commercial environments? Anybody know?

Post# 296171 , Reply# 3 8/30/2014 at 21:42 (3,523 days old) by DesertTortoise ()
Checkrate/Likes 1 You would be better off with a Sebo or Windsor upright. We have a new Sanitaire at work, but when it clogs or chokes on something like the overflow from a shredding session we end up sweet talking one of the custodial crew to come in and clean up what the Sanitaire can't with one of their Windsors. The Sanitaire was smearing the stuff around on the carpet. The Windsor left it spotless. "Nuff said.

Post# 296205 , Reply# 4 8/31/2014 at 02:29 (3,523 days old) by tolivac (Greenville,NC)
Checkrate/Likes Clogged Sanitaire from cleaning up after a shredding session-what are you shredding?-Paper shredder?

Post# 296227 , Reply# 5 8/31/2014 at 06:40 (3,522 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada)
Checkrate/Likes Sanitaires are better uprights than Windsors. We don't need an overly complicated bypass bag-first vac with two motors. Eureka. The very best in vacuum cleaners. 'Nuff said. :-)

Post# 296250 , Reply# 6 8/31/2014 at 11:05 (3,522 days old) by DesertTortoise ()
Checkrate/Likes Yep, we're digitizing huge amounts of old files and shredding the paper files afterwards. Two reasons. One, data on paper has to be transferred by hand to spread sheets if any kind of data analysis is going to be performed. But, if you copy paper docs and put them into certain formats, you can generate spreadsheets out of printed data tables and then perform the data analysis you wish. It also makes the data searchable and more easily available to users in our profession. We are creating a data library this way. We had three summer interns in a room with three cross-cut shredders going to town. Most of it went in plastic bags but a lot went on the floor which is covered by a low pile commercial carpet. The Sanitaire choked on the stuff, smeared it into the carpet and started to smell like it was burning. We sweet talked the lady who cleans our spaces and others in our building to come back and clean up the mess. She has a knackered looking Windsor Sensor S12, Windsor's least costly model. A few passes and all the mess the Sanitaire couldn't pick up were gone and the carpet was spotless again. Keep in mind I am not a fan of any upright. I prefer a canister vac and a good powered floor brush. But for cleaning vast stretches of office carpet I can see the utility of an upright. They load on the cleaning cart easily too. Low pile and/or commercial carpets is where Winsor and Sebo uprights excel. In deep pile carpeting the suck right into the carpet, which ought to be desirable, but the silly belt sensor always shuts them down misinterpreting the drag from deep pile carpet as a belt jam. If I could find a work around for the sensor I would be much more enthusiastic about them. But the Sanitaire is weak, weak, weak. I really do not understand why custodial crews buy them other than they are extremely inexpensive. Windsors and by extension Sebos clean so much better. Seeing the Sanitaire jam, smell like it was burning and seeing the shreds smeared into the carpet, followed by a few passes of this hammered looking Windsor cleaning the carpet thoroughly was enough of a lesson for me.

Post# 296258 , Reply# 7 8/31/2014 at 11:37 (3,522 days old) by DesertTortoise ()
Checkrate/Likes Prowl ebay for a clean Windsor at a good price like this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Windsor-Versamat... Even if you end up paying $300 for this vac it's a screaming deal. They sell new for more than double that. I got two Windsors this way both for about half price, one was new in box but the box was damaged, the other a floor demo with a full bag and a jam. An hour of cleaning and it looked no different than a brand new one. There seem to be an abundance of good deals on Windors on ebay if you are patient.

Post# 296271 , Reply# 8 8/31/2014 at 14:21 (3,522 days old) by eurekastar (Amarillo, Texas)
Checkrate/Likes I do own that model, and it is a GREAT vacuum. It was designed for use in hotels (and other venues) where quiet is essential. On low, it is amazing quiet but still cleans extremely well.

Post# 296325 , Reply# 9 9/1/2014 at 04:03 (3,522 days old) by tolivac (Greenville,NC)
Checkrate/Likes Direct air machines like Kirbys and Metal Royal uprights would have eaten the paper shreds with no problem.Good the Windsor works on that-thought it would have clogged.I clean up after my junkmail shredder with my Tornado-with its new hose---no problems.My NSS M1 loves paper scraps,too!!!And they are put into its giant paper bag for easy disposal in the dumps Baker Compactor.

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