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Thread Number: 39800
/ Tag: 80s/90s Vacuum Cleaners
Fantastic Fantom Thunder |
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| Post# 422568 , Reply# 1 4/1/2020 at 11:51 (1,478 days old) by crazykirbydude (Lexington, KY) | ||
I don't like my Fantom Fury. It's a horrible cleaner. I conducted an experiment once, which consisted of grinding fine dirt into my carpet and vacuuming with the Fantom until it looked clean. The Fantom picked up about two cups. Then, I took a cheapo Walmart Bissell PowerForce and vacuum the same spot. The Bissell managed to pull an additional cup of dirt from my carpet. Keep in mind that this is a $50 plastic bagless vacuum, not a high end vacuum. I think the Fantoms are neat collection pieces, but terribly impractical as a vacuum cleaner.
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| Post# 422591 , Reply# 2 4/1/2020 at 16:16 (1,478 days old) by Lesinutah (Utah) | ||
Lol
The Sunbeam didn't have huge sales. The airways and lewyts took those. Yet I recall reading it was one of the most powerful vacuums.
I seen on a thread the Sunbeam pulled 103 CFM. There are very few that do this today. Yet the vacuum is 50-60 years old. Kirby has high CFM. They didn't suffer from lack of publicity. The one thing Kirby has is the DTD salespeople are questionable. The Fantom bought out Iona vacuum which was Regina. The Regina vacuums were quite good. O have a handvac Iona dirt raider. I did a side by side with my royal power force and my riccar. It performed better than both. If we're talking early 90s and you say the Fantom is plasticrap. I'd laugh because hoovers, bissell's, most other vacuums had slot more heavy plastic on them. I don't think there the best vacuums but for the time period they were finicky but there still around and still work. Nobody should be brought down about what vacuum they like. We are here to help and encourage others. Bashing anyone who posts anything on a vacuum you don't like is wrong. Let's encourage people anydd maybe non members or people dropping in see a positive board. Let's be kind and respectful. You don't have to like the vacuum it just shows a little class when we respect people. Les | ||
| Post# 422594 , Reply# 3 4/1/2020 at 16:55 (1,478 days old) by DesiredName (Utah) | ||
The Thunder is much better than the Fury. I have had both. I also have a British DC01. Which is similar to the Thunder. The Thunder has a two stage motor which is really nice. In my opinion the Thunder is the best quality cyclonic bagless upright ever made. Do your headlights still work? Sometimes the wire splits where it enters the motor housing.
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| Post# 422595 , Reply# 4 4/1/2020 at 17:20 (1,478 days old) by DesiredName (Utah) | ||
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| Post# 422600 , Reply# 5 4/1/2020 at 18:09 (1,478 days old) by AnnM (Chapel Hill) | ||
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Fantom Thunder The headlights work great!
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| Post# 422633 , Reply# 7 4/2/2020 at 09:12 (1,477 days old) by RainbowD4C (Saint Joseph, Michigan ) | ||
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| Post# 422668 , Reply# 8 4/3/2020 at 05:03 (1,477 days old) by man114 (Buffalo NY) | ||
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The Thunder, particularly the 11 amp (aka domestic) was an excellent machine. The rest of them didn’t quite compare. I have many of them and still regularly find them. | ||
| Post# 422677 , Reply# 9 4/3/2020 at 10:06 (1,476 days old) by Oreck_XL (Brooklyn, New York 11211) | ||
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| Post# 422701 , Reply# 10 4/3/2020 at 18:52 (1,476 days old) by myles_v (Fredericksburg, VA) | ||
The Scamway machine was produced after lying to James Dyson and using the dual cyclone technology without permission. The CMS 1000 was released around the same time as the Vectron by SJ Johnson (which was essentially a commercial Fantom Thunder). It is currently sold as the Workhorse by a company called WMJ Refurbishing. I do believe that the original CMS-1000 and Cleartrak machines were manufactured by Bissell.
Also, while it may have been the first dual cyclonic bagless upright in the US, it certainly was not the first upright to not use disposable bags. It was produced illegitimately, and resulted in Amway being sued by Dyson. It is one of many stains in Amway's horribly soiled history as a multilevel marketing scheme. The CMS-1000/Cleartrak/Workhorse is a nifty machine for collecting, but praising it for being the first bagless machine in the US is untrue and feels immoral. CLICK HERE TO GO TO myles_v's LINK | ||
| Post# 422736 , Reply# 11 4/4/2020 at 06:39 (1,475 days old) by Oreck_XL (Brooklyn, New York 11211) | ||
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| Post# 422799 , Reply# 12 4/5/2020 at 01:37 (1,475 days old) by myles_v (Fredericksburg, VA) | ||
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