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Interesting I would have said maybe give a tristar a whirl, but it looks like you have a partriot or something like that in your collection already. Maybe give a used filter queen a whirl, they can be picked up for cheap. Interesting

Wasn't a test It wasn't a test, or that one vacuum was better than the next. I did have a new bag in the Miele and it really wasn't picking up all that much that was new as it initially picked up a lot in the beginning when I moved into this apartment. The floors were not properly vacuumed...

This is what it picked up I was using the Miele S2 with 228 powerhead before the filter queen. After vacuuming 3 times over 3 days, a small bedroom and 12 x 12 living room carpet, this is what the old brown model Filter queen picked up and what the Miele seems to have missed. The dust pile...

Pick up a used one I have two filter queens the brown model and a triple crown. I picked them up a week ago from a lady for 100 cdn for the pair, which included tons of unused attachments, cones, manuals etc. She was selling on behalf of her parents. Both machines were well maintained and...

Good Deals There should be all kinds of good deals in your local marketplace. In the last three weeks I bought the following here in Edmonton and these prices are Canadian dollars. These prices included people delivering them to me. 1. Tristar EXL, excellent condition, all the tools, 50...

Webmaster My initial questions of are these V.A.C. bags and are they of good quality has long been answered. Is it possible to close or lock this post as it has gone off topic.

Vaclab You have some good points, I personally would leave the cloth bag in mine, not that I think it would add anything for extra filtration to the hepa, but just as a safety precaution and my piece of mind. I wanted to order some of the hepa bags, but the cheapest shipping to Canada is 32...

rivstg1 I don't think he is outsmarting anyone. The hepa bags are designed to be used within the cloth bag for support and seal. If you wish to put your faith into that 2mm cardboard ring will hold up under rigorous use, then feel free to give it a try. According to his logic it will produce...

You fiddled with the rubber ring 3 times to get the cardboard seal of the hepa bag to line up. I don't have a 100 percent faith that little cardboard seal will hold on a 3/4 filled bag every time. After you fill up 10 bags and tell is none have collapsed I will have more trust in your setup...

Wow Soooo shiny

Has anyone tried these from webrestaurant store. Are they the V.A.C. brand. They are cheap enough, but ship is 30 usd to Canada which if I order enough would be worth it. Just would like to know if anyone has tried them...

Vac Lab Videos I watched his videos... Kirby Orignal Paper = 11,559. Clean Fairy hepa type, 1400 at 0.3. So even generic hepa type are better than paper. Though not as good as Original Kirby or Miele bags.

KirbyLux77 I never said that the Clean Fairy or other generic hepa type bags were equal to Miele or Kirby original hepa bags...they are not. The question was are they a gimmick and my response was they are better than the paper bags, which they are. The original Kenmore paperbags always leak...

Here in Canada, thru Amazon I can get 20 hepa type bags for the Kenmore for 24 Cdn dollars. These bags are cheaper than the paper ones. I have never seen dust on the bags or in the chamber even when almost full. As with the paper bags they would always leak dust and the chamber and motor...

Which brand of belt do you find lasts the longest with you sanitaire and how long on a low pile carpet does it roughly last?