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Thread Number: 33739
/ Tag: Recent Vacuum Cleaners from past 20 years
Childhood reunited :) |
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| Post# 366562 2/11/2017 at 14:38 (2,629 days old) by icee (Indiana) | ||
I can't believe I finally found one! A dirt devil vision swivel glide! Now I know, it's "just a dirt devil", but I couldn't care less! This is the exact kind of sweeper my mom had when I was growing up for years before she got a dyson dc07 (but now she has a kirby G4, that she got off her pretty cool son haha). But yes, I absolutely adore this machine. I have kirbys, fantoms, old hoovers, the lot. And I care for them all, they all have their special place. But this one has so much memories behind it, it's what started my sweeper obsession :). Yes, I normally prefer bagged sweepers, but come on. What's more special than your mom's sweeper from when you were a kid? And this one is in surprisingly good shape. Needs new filters, the ones on it now smell of quite old dirt. But the attatchments are there, nothing is broken, even the pedal button to release the head works just fine. I couldn't be more thrilled!
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| Post# 366566 , Reply# 1 2/11/2017 at 15:26 (2,629 days old) by dysonman1 (the county) | ||
I remember when those came out. Dirt Devil had a pretty cool commercial, a talking toy got sucked up and you could see him spinning around.
The first ones were TERRIBLE. They had a plastic (yes, plastic) "permafilter" that was smooth plastic, and restricted airflow almost from the first minute of cleaning. I was never so happy as when they went to the pleated filter. The pleated filter was far superior. Ultimately, Dirt Devil made them (under various names and sizes) for quite a while. Congrats on a childhood vac find. | ||
| Post# 366581 , Reply# 2 2/11/2017 at 19:04 (2,629 days old) by panasonicvac (Northern Utah) | ||
I have a green version, it was also a childhood machine because my uncle had one before and I used to hate it because it was VERY LOUD. Didn't really care about it until I saw another one at my thrift store and decided to try it out for old times sake. I was surprised by how powerful it really was so I bought it. Only thing it needs is some attachments which I can still get and a bumper which is hard to find. I thought the brushroll was very unique because it has 3 rows and each row is red, white, and blue.
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| Post# 366584 , Reply# 3 2/11/2017 at 19:25 (2,629 days old) by panasonicvac (Northern Utah) | ||
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| Post# 366604 , Reply# 5 2/12/2017 at 09:35 (2,629 days old) by icee (Indiana) | ||
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Dysonman1 | ||
| Post# 366608 , Reply# 6 2/12/2017 at 11:27 (2,628 days old) by crazykirbydude (Lexington, KY) | ||
I have the purple Perma-Filter version. I have since then turned it into a stripped down service vac. I got it completely trashed. I hate it how crap gets caked on the Perma-Filter. What is the thing even made out of?
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| Post# 366645 , Reply# 7 2/12/2017 at 18:26 (2,628 days old) by mieles7 (TX) | ||
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| Post# 366670 , Reply# 8 2/13/2017 at 06:44 (2,628 days old) by icee (Indiana) | ||
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On the subject of perma filters... | ||
| Post# 455396 , Reply# 9 8/2/2022 at 09:54 (632 days old) by panasonicvac (Northern Utah) | ||
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I just picked this up yesterday, it has the electronic performance indicator instead of the mechanical one. This still has in fact the original filter that dysonman1 was referring to.
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| Post# 455401 , Reply# 10 8/2/2022 at 11:20 (632 days old) by Blackheart (North Dakota) | ||
Show us. | ||
| Post# 455407 , Reply# 11 8/2/2022 at 12:04 (631 days old) by panasonicvac (Northern Utah) | ||
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| Post# 455424 , Reply# 12 8/2/2022 at 17:08 (631 days old) by Blackheart (North Dakota) | ||
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How bizarre! | ||
| Post# 455426 , Reply# 13 8/3/2022 at 00:43 (631 days old) by panasonicvac (Northern Utah) | ||
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| Post# 455480 , Reply# 14 8/5/2022 at 01:21 (629 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana) | ||
That filter reminds me of what Dyson did with their Ball series uprights.
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