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Thread Number: 39538
/ Tag: Recent Vacuum Cleaners from past 20 years
How to put on an Oreck lifetime belt |
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| Post# 419441 2/2/2020 at 20:59 (1,537 days old) by Mieles5380leo (Virginia) | ||
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| Post# 419450 , Reply# 2 2/3/2020 at 08:49 (1,537 days old) by rugsucker (Elizabethton TN) | ||
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"lifetime"--"forever"--?! Sounds like the greatest vac ever!Why would it need anything? | ||
Post# 419457 , Reply# 4 2/3/2020 at 15:00 (1,536 days old) by gottahaveahoove  (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640) |
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A number | ||
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Post# 419485 , Reply# 5 2/4/2020 at 01:43 (1,536 days old) by tolivac (Greenville,NC) |
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And remember the TTI idiots discontinued the Royal Metal uprights! | ||
| Post# 419488 , Reply# 6 2/4/2020 at 04:30 (1,536 days old) by vacuumdevil (Vacuum Hell ) | ||
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| Post# 419505 , Reply# 7 2/4/2020 at 15:58 (1,535 days old) by Mieles5380leo (Virginia) | ||
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Thank you guys so much for your help. I ended up just stretching the roller into place with the belt on it. I don’t like doing that because it can warp the housing but I didn’t want to heat it up unless I absolutely had to. This machine wasn’t abused, I actually work at a vac&sew store and it was a friend of mines in for a repair because the bag collar came off and this the outer and inner bag. It was also in for a tune up while I was at it and our policy is to change the belts on all Oreck tune ups. The original lifetime belt in it seemed to be fine but I just went ahead and replaced it while it was in for service. It’s all clean and put back together now (since it came in dusty and dirty and everything had come apart in it.) It is a TTI model however so I’ve noticed the build quality on it was quite poor in comparison to my platinum pilot that was made pre-TTI.
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| Post# 419529 , Reply# 8 2/5/2020 at 08:40 (1,535 days old) by Oreck_XL (Brooklyn, New York 11211) | ||
You're right about build quality suffering. I've noticed the plastics they use now are thinner gauge, the cords thinner and newer Orecks have circuit boards. Not a fan at all of the Magnesium series. I really couldn't say I think Oreck is brand to be sought anymore. The old man David Oreck is onto other business ventures - selling high end LUXURY candles. He prostituted his controlled interest in the company and that's when everything went to pot.
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| Post# 419533 , Reply# 9 2/5/2020 at 11:11 (1,535 days old) by Vac-o-matic (Saint Louis, Mo.) | ||
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Can we get an Amen? | ||
| Post# 419687 , Reply# 10 2/8/2020 at 07:59 (1,532 days old) by Mieles5380leo (Virginia) | ||
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| Post# 419688 , Reply# 11 2/8/2020 at 08:01 (1,532 days old) by Mieles5380leo (Virginia) | ||
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Honestly if I could put Oreck back to the way they were 10 years ago I would. I really miss the days when David Oreck was ruling things. They may not have been everyone’s favorite vac but at least there were over 300 Oreck stores nationwide that stood behind that specific brand. They were also built better, if anything did break, you could just replace it and have it up and running again. They weren’t “throw away” vacs which was David Oreck’s intention, to make them last.
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Post# 419807 , Reply# 12 2/10/2020 at 15:30 (1,529 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640) |
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What's happening atTTI | ||
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