Sanitaire S645 Upright

Well the color and style are gorgeous! Looks like a really nice vac!

I don't know what motor yours sounds like but I did commercial cleaning about a year ago. Sanitaire has a new motor that they outfitted on some of the SC886 machines that I encountered in the field. Same motor was on some SC899 Widetrack machines. The sound of that motor had a really strange tone that had my ears ringing. It wasn't as loud as it was just poor toned. I used to check with the office on occasion to see if I could exchange with any older style traditional motor sounding ones that are so much easier to run!!

The traditional style Sanitaire motor sound and also they're economy line motor found on most of the red line plastic hood machines is very pleasant. I found the plastic hood machines did just as good a job at cleaning if not better than the metal hooded SC886. I like that the plastic hood models lower amp motor models could handle rubber bottomed mats significantly better, actually cleaning them rather than trying to eat them. My favorite vacuum to come across in the commercial field though was a Hoover Guardsman upright. It didn't have as much suck as some of the Sanitaires but it removed fine lint and other dirt far better off of rubber bottomed mats along with still doing a great job on regular commercial carpet. The Sanitaires always sounded like they had great agitation and were beating the rug and I was always monitoring the belts. But the Hoover definitely grabbed lint and actually pet hair that I came across a few times, better than the Sanitaires. I didn't have any dust clouds with the Guardsman Commercial units like I did with the Sanitaire Shake out bags either.

Anyway for sorry for getting off track. Enjoy your new gorgeous looking Sanitaire. I haven't tried a VGI styled brush like that before that is all bristle. The ones I've used have always had a beater bar and bristle combo on those auger style ones. The SC886 machines as I'm sure you're aware have VGII brush rolls.


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Post# 349012 3/29/2016 at 20:31 (2,942 days old) by dariusii (Utah)
Checkrate/Likes I gotta tell ya...this S645 does better at carpet cleaning/grooming than my Kirby G7D. Granted I replaced the standard metal "beater bar" brushroll with the more 'classy' all alumium brush roll (found on the higher 670 models)...which leaves a less "trailer park death match" result...and a more gentrified Londoner's "4 o' clock High tea" experience. This machine absolutely owns the carpets...but loses in anything hard floor or above floor. That's OK -- I'm a Vacuum nerd (which means I own lots of vacuums). Anything arises that needs needs hard or above floor attention...I'll simply whip-out the likes of my Eureka Mighty Mite (Circa 1989) or my Kenmore Canister (Lime Green 2014) amongst others. Please enjoy the pictures...and make comments! Thanks -- DRG CLICK HERE TO GO TO dariusii's LINK Photos... < > Photo 1 of 7 View Full Size

Post# 349028 , Reply# 1 3/29/2016 at 22:33 (2,942 days old) by Durango159 (State College, PA)
Checkrate/Likes *Trouble with your link!* Well the color and style are gorgeous! Looks like a really nice vac! I don't know what motor yours sounds like but I did commercial cleaning about a year ago. Sanitaire has a new motor that they outfitted on some of the SC886 machines that I encountered in the field. Same motor was on some SC899 Widetrack machines. The sound of that motor had a really strange tone that had my ears ringing. It wasn't as loud as it was just poor toned. I used to check with the office on occasion to see if I could exchange with any older style traditional motor sounding ones that are so much easier to run!! The traditional style Sanitaire motor sound and also they're economy line motor found on most of the red line plastic hood machines is very pleasant. I found the plastic hood machines did just as good a job at cleaning if not better than the metal hooded SC886. I like that the plastic hood models lower amp motor models could handle rubber bottomed mats significantly better, actually cleaning them rather than trying to eat them. My favorite vacuum to come across in the commercial field though was a Hoover Guardsman upright. It didn't have as much suck as some of the Sanitaires but it removed fine lint and other dirt far better off of rubber bottomed mats along with still doing a great job on regular commercial carpet. The Sanitaires always sounded like they had great agitation and were beating the rug and I was always monitoring the belts. But the Hoover definitely grabbed lint and actually pet hair that I came across a few times, better than the Sanitaires. I didn't have any dust clouds with the Guardsman Commercial units like I did with the Sanitaire Shake out bags either. Anyway for sorry for getting off track. Enjoy your new gorgeous looking Sanitaire. I haven't tried a VGI styled brush like that before that is all bristle. The ones I've used have always had a beater bar and bristle combo on those auger style ones. The SC886 machines as I'm sure you're aware have VGII brush rolls.