Thread Number: 35315
/ Tag: Recent Vacuum Cleaners from past 20 years
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Post# 379957   10/18/2017 at 18:41 (2,381 days old) by Hank (Cali)   |   | |
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I have no idea what they were thinking when they designed this and sold it as a commercial vacuum
Was at my local vac shop today and asked the owner about it, I thought at first it was a hoover ZVac, he said he has had it for 4 months and other than cleaning it up has no idea what to sell it for, and had it sitting in a corner behind all his other used machines. He got it from a kirby distributor, was traded in towards a Kirby so he buys alot of the trade-ins. (Also had a HYLA water vacuum that he had just sold before I got there today. First impressions of this thing are that it is both heavier and seems to be flimsier than a dyson, for a 2000$ vacuum I couldn't believe it. The dustbin stays vertical when in use too as it swivels with the machine so its never to the side... To me this feels like a $150 vacuum if it were sold new at any big box store... Looked into it some, guess the owner of the company used to be a part of filterqueen and this machine uses a cone style filter. |
Post# 380002 , Reply# 1   10/19/2017 at 14:22 (2,380 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA)   |   | |
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Post# 380003 , Reply# 2   10/19/2017 at 14:26 (2,380 days old) by kirbylux77 (London, Ontario, Canada)   |   | |
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If I am remembering correctly, Healthmor, Filter Queen's manufacturer, sued FVS Inc, Filtropur's manufacturer, for patent infringement over the paper cone the Filtropur uses in the dirt cup. One thing I do like about Filtropur, though, is at least they use a HEPA filter on the exhaust, something I hope Filter Queen catches onto eventually.
Definitely a oddball machine, for sure. Rob |
Post# 380318 , Reply# 3   10/26/2017 at 22:20 (2,373 days old) by broomvac (N/A)   |   | |
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