Thread Number: 33270
/ Tag: Recent Vacuum Cleaners from past 20 years
A couple of Filter Queen questions |
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Post# 363072 , Reply# 1   12/4/2016 at 09:12 (2,671 days old) by FantomFan (Rochester, New York)   |   | |
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Post# 363123 , Reply# 2   12/5/2016 at 03:39 (2,670 days old) by Durango159 (State College, PA)   |   | |
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I used to sell Filter Queen.
The black carbon layered Medipur cone is good for 6 months. It is meant for not only boosting filtration but also blocking odors. The white cellulose cone is good up until basin is full-- 2.5 gallon capacity. If your basin is not full, but you noticed reduced power you can remove the motor unit, and just lightly flick the cone with your finger at different sections. This will knock some dust off of the other side. Once you feel need to completely dump canister then dispose of cone, clean and dry the gasket and insert a new cellulose cone. Just be careful in disturbing the white cellulose cone because if any dust gets on the inside then it will go to your premotor filter disc and clog that off. This filter is easily cleanable but you'll have more significant power loss when that filter is dirty. The black Medipur cone is not required but it is heavily recommended. Just remember that is good for 6 months. It goes inside of the white cones. A new Medipur cone is available with a new genuine 6 pack supply of cones from FilterQueen. As far as your second question, nothing like that is available from Filter Queen. Filter Queen has always had an exclusive tool to wand system for their products whether an older model like yours or the newer style wand section which came out in 2003. For what you are trying to do, you would have to rig a system yourself to either find some sort of adapter to put on hose end or create a hose by switching canister connection end or hose handle end. There are vacuum collectors out there that have done transformations to their Filter Queen hoses for such purposes. I am not one of them and don't have any further advice on how it would be done. Best of luck! |
Post# 364925 , Reply# 4   1/9/2017 at 13:54 (2,635 days old) by panasonicvac (Northern Utah)   |   | |
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Post# 365000 , Reply# 5   1/11/2017 at 09:17 (2,633 days old) by kirbyvertibles (Independence, KS)   |   | |
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Rob, do you know if they still make the thick black charcoal filter? When we bought ours new in 1997 our black 6 month filter was a LOT thicker and more porous than the charcoal paper ones today. This thing you could not tear in half and it came with a little blue tag (like a tag found in a pair of jeans with the size printed on)
I loved it but we only were able to replace it once then could not seem to find them but found the paperish ones of today. Also another filter that came with it was a pure white cloth cone ONLY to be used when purifying the air. I can't find that one either. My Dad burned up our 99a with using all day everyday as an air purifier. I had a new motor put in it and still use it. |