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Thread Number: 39327
/ Tag: Recent Vacuum Cleaners from past 20 years
Strangest or worst clog found in vacuum |
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| Post# 417239 12/14/2019 at 08:21 (1,588 days old) by fan-of-fans (USA) | ||
What is the worst clog or strangest cause of one you've found in a vacuum cleaner?
For me it was a Kenmore Progressive Direct Drive upright. I got it at Habitat for $10. It had a brand new HEPA bag in it, and ran fine when I tested it, but it had a very high pitched sound. I knew there must be a clog, but for the price and its otherwise very good condition, I took it home. It turned out the hose had a huge clog that went on for several inches. It took a long time to get it out, since 1 it is a stretch hose and 2 the stuff was really packed. What I finally found was somebody had sucked up a cigarette pen which was causing the clog. There were also bits of crayons and small toys that had gotten stuck. It was a big amount of stuff clogged in there. My guess is the bag was new because they replaced it to see if that would clear the issue, and when it didn't, they donated it. | ||
| Post# 417240 , Reply# 1 12/14/2019 at 08:49 (1,588 days old) by Hoover300 (Kentucky) | ||
I have 2. One was a barn find Powerforce bagless that had a wet 4 inch dog fur clog down the white hose. Took me almost an hour and punctured the hose while doing so. Worked great after though. The other is one of those clean air Hoover Preferreds. The swivel hose can't be removed from the body, and there was a 2-3 incher made of fur right above the swivel arm in the stretch hose. That sure was fun.
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| Post# 417243 , Reply# 2 12/14/2019 at 10:08 (1,588 days old) by dysonman1 (the county) | ||
My favorite is about the lady with the Filter Queen who said it stopped sucking up the fluff. And she wanted her money back. When the largest pair of big girl panties were extracted from the hose, she claimed that they were not hers. "No, they do look a little too small for you". She grabbed her Filter Queen and drug it across the parking lot.
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| Post# 417260 , Reply# 4 12/14/2019 at 18:54 (1,587 days old) by MadMan (Chicago, IL, USA) | ||
A trash find Eureka AirSpeed... I kid you not, about 50 hairpins stuck in the first bend right near the nozzle. Pretty obvious why they threw it out.
Then my friend's office vac, some kind of modern Hoover, I forget. It was plugged with only dust, no appreciable amount of hair or other solids. But the ENTIRE nozzle up to, and touching, the brushroll, and maybe 4 or 5 inches up into the hose was just one BIG dust bunny. Honestly, my best guess is that they repeatedly vacuumed wet carpet first, then dry second, caking up the dust. Just a guess though. | ||
| Post# 417262 , Reply# 5 12/14/2019 at 20:17 (1,587 days old) by vacuumman (California) | ||
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I once found a Dyson upright where somebody sucked up a Crayola marker using the hose. Fortunately, it had not formed a true clog yet, but if anybody used the hose after that, the results wouldn't have been pretty. | ||
| Post# 417263 , Reply# 6 12/14/2019 at 20:52 (1,587 days old) by fan-of-fans (USA) | ||
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One thing I've noticed in most of these replies, is uprights with stretch hoses. To me this causes the issue with all of the crannies in these ribbed hoses. In my case with the Progressive it's much worse because the hose has about 4 bends plus the elbow where it connects to the back of the vacuum. The one at the clip that is meant to keep the machine from falling over when you use the hose is especially sharp.
I also forgot, the machine actually had a second clog. The brushroll had a dryer sheet caught in it in front of the hose opening. So there were not one but two clogs. Surprising all of that happened given for a machine that was about 10 years old it is in quite good shape (very few scratches and all attachments were actually on it, etc). | ||
Post# 417274 , Reply# 8 12/15/2019 at 00:59 (1,587 days old) by tolivac  (Greenville,NC) |
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At the vac shop-first was a CarpetPro that was in a restaurant-the machine TRUIED to ingest a WHOLE hamburger!The worst mess ever!!Next another from a restaurant-was a Sanitaire that had half of a mouse in the fan chamber-other half clogging the bag intake. | ||
| Post# 417278 , Reply# 10 12/15/2019 at 03:04 (1,587 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana) | ||
Eureka Corvette Vac. Open the front plate and the entire thing is packed completely solid from the brushroll to the inside handle with loose carpet fibers. Automotive carpet. They actually started expanding and poofing out of the opening as soon as I took the cover off. It had such a strong suction motor I guess it just kept scooping them up but they were just packing inside the vacuum. It got so full that the belt caught some of them on fire, then broke, and then the person tossed it into Goodwill and I bought it.
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Post# 417280 , Reply# 11 12/15/2019 at 06:34 (1,587 days old) by tolivac (Greenville,NC) |
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Figure the mouse was mangled and chopped in half by the brushroll and fan.What a way for a mouse to go!Both the burger vacuum and mouse vacuum STANK!!!!!Those food places should have used a Bissel push type sweeper or a broom. | ||
| Post# 417288 , Reply# 12 12/15/2019 at 14:11 (1,586 days old) by MadMan (Chicago, IL, USA) | ||
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Not exactly a vacuum, but the half a mouse story reminds me of a customer's car once. No / very little airflow from the heater vents, blower fan making loud noise. A whole dead squirrel was in the middle fan blade - throwing it off balance and blocking the airflow! Funny that those types of fans are called 'squirrel cage' fans lol. Didn't even stink, it'd been dead for so long.
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| Post# 417311 , Reply# 13 12/16/2019 at 15:58 (1,585 days old) by vexorgtr (Sheffield, Ohio) | ||
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Carpet fiber When we first moved here, we were using a Hoover Tempo Widepath. My Uncle in law was helping with the move, and in not checking the vac at any point, filled the bag to the brim, and then packed the hose full of carpet fibers. It was hard packed, and took a plumbers snake to fix. | ||
| Post# 417451 , Reply# 17 12/20/2019 at 05:22 (1,582 days old) by vacuumdevil (Vacuum Hell ) | ||
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| Post# 417549 , Reply# 18 12/24/2019 at 11:55 (1,577 days old) by crazykirbydude (Lexington, KY) | ||
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Post# 417568 , Reply# 20 12/25/2019 at 00:59 (1,577 days old) by tolivac (Greenville,NC) |
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Suppose that mouse didn't like his "ride" in the Shop Vac! | ||
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