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Thread Number: 41269
/ Tag: 80s/90s Vacuum Cleaners
I'm such a sucker... |
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| Post# 437707 1/24/2021 at 21:56 (1,180 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
So I had given my quasi-girlfriend my Hoover Quik Broom Supreme a little more than a year ago and she just called to say it had 'shattered' and was 'un-repairable' so she wanted to "borrow" another vacuum. Of course, we all know what that means. But sucker that I am, I offered her my least favorite Electrolux—the Discovery Plus. I never warmed to its onboard tool storage and it's just been sitting in my barn since 2016 but I just hate the idea of subjecting it to the abusive treatment to which she will likely subject it. If I could have convinced her to go for a canister, I would have given her my even more disliked Filter Queen but she was insistent on an upright. Whatever. This is the last vacuum I send her way. She breaks this one and she's on her own. She can just go to Wally World get hersef a piece of plasticrap. I may be a sucker but I don't like being taken advantage of.
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| Post# 437710 , Reply# 1 1/24/2021 at 23:15 (1,180 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA) | ||
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| Post# 437711 , Reply# 2 1/24/2021 at 23:51 (1,180 days old) by MadMan (Chicago, IL, USA) | ||
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| Post# 437726 , Reply# 4 1/25/2021 at 09:41 (1,179 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA) | ||
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I also typically have a disposable, normally cheap bagless , often a Bissell around. it's usually just a blockage or a belt and they're sitting out by the dumpster or on the sidewalk easy fix for my dirt four neighbors who move in to the apartments.Currently I don't have any throwaway machines so maybe I'm done with that or maybe it's just time for another piece of crap with an easy fix to turn up. I don't have any right now that I would give away easily. But even those freebie junk machines, considering the income in this area they are normally thrilled to have it.
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| Post# 437738 , Reply# 5 1/25/2021 at 14:50 (1,179 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
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| Post# 437741 , Reply# 7 1/25/2021 at 16:09 (1,179 days old) by Hoover300 (Kentucky) | ||
The Quik Broom | ||
| Post# 437753 , Reply# 8 1/25/2021 at 19:27 (1,179 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
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The Quik Broom was a Regina copy with the cloth bellows at the top. I agree it was no great loss but one thing I observed was her chronic laxness in emptying the dirt cup. And she wondered why it smelled hot when she ran it. This is why I do not have a good feeling about sending the Discovery over there. It does have the bag full indicator but it remains to be seen whether she pays attention to it. I'm definitely going to keep my eye out for a plasticrap vac to replace the Electrolux before she has much of a chance to destroy it.
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| Post# 438765 , Reply# 9 2/14/2021 at 21:11 (1,159 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
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I think I've made another Electrolux convert...
So now that the quasi girlfriend has had the Discovery Plus in her possession for a few weeks, she is singing its praises as the most powerful vacuum cleaner she has ever used. However, she does agree that the onboard tool storage is an awkward design at best but it does make it convenient for keeping things together when not in use. It's funny, my former house cleaner said nearly the same thing about the Discovery II, onboard tools notwithstanding. She was just in love with the thing.
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| Post# 438826 , Reply# 11 2/16/2021 at 16:25 (1,157 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
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Everyone—gay, straight or otherwise—is capable of doing things that others find strange but I don't go around judging whole groups of people on the behavior of a single individual. 'Nuff said on that subject.
What she did was to bang the nozzle against the floor in a misguided attempt to dislodge a clog. Why she didn't just reach in with her hand is beyond me. But be that as it may, I had gifted her the vacuum outright so it was hers to do with as she wished. I didn't see the shattered remains and it doesn't matter. I had detached myself from any outcome with that machine. I learned my lesson about that a few years ago when I loaned a previous girlfriend a Kirby Heritage, which she abandoned at her old apartment after she moved out when I had specifically request that she return it to me whenever she was done with it. She and I haven't spoken in quite some time but I have forgiven her nonetheless. I choose not to allow that incident to have any further power over me. I chose to let her use my least favorite Electrolux upright, which had literally not seen the light of day in almost five years. And as I said, if she abuses and destroys that one, she's on her own for a replacement, although I would request the remains be returned so I could have it for spare parts as I have three other similar machines for which it could serve as a parts donor. But beyond that, my own sanity is best served by remaining detached from the outcome. | ||
| Post# 439343 , Reply# 12 3/2/2021 at 10:14 (1,143 days old) by electrikbroomgu (Rome, NY) | ||
Hoover Quik Broom
Most of these Hoover Quik Brooms seem to have 3 things wrong with them as we find them or get them in for service. The dirt cup seal is always shot as the original was made of a foam like material that dries up. Power it up and dirt will shoot out from the seal area and the dirt cup will be loose. The second issue is the blind sided plastic fan that is a ticking time bomb. After time and use it will strip out and dangle on the end of the motor shaft. An easy way to tell is a high winding shrill motor and no suction. The third is worn motor sleeve bearings on both the fan end and cooling end. A noisy clackity motor usually means worn bearings. A good way to tell how much use one of these had is the wear in the nozzle. Some are so bad they flip flop back and forth when all it should do is turn from side to side.
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