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Very interesting, I would've liked these more than the hard case models.

Their central vac power units are assembled in Canada by Trovac Industries who are the makers of CycloVac and several brands they eventually bought out like Beam, Cana-Vac, Hayden, etc. Speaking of Hayden, the Simplicity Summit/Riccar 2400 uses the exact same Panasonic power nozzle as the...

Twin fan, double stage, I don't see a difference in what you call them. Personally, I'm a big fan of twin fan motors and I'd rather use a machine that has one. I usually find them to be quieter, more pleasant sounding and reliable. Sometimes even more powerful as well but that'd depend on what...

I got all my Rainbows for super cheap, one of which was given to me. I never found any of mine difficult to maneuver. Like you, canisters aren't my favorite either. However, in some situations like my grandfather's cabin for example, having a canister is WAY better suited than an upright...

Rainbow's motto is wet dust can't fly, this is true when it comes to emptying out the water basin. Rainbows are the cleanest bagless machines I've used. Some bagless machines you can get away with not having to empty out every time you use them, but this is what I like about Rainbow. Rainbows...

They are, however the Titan doesn't use a twin fan motor as the CleanMax line.

Both the 7850 and 8900 were great machines, one of my personal favorites as well. You can still get similar machines to those today under their commercial brand called CleanMax. Or there's a company that makes clones of those machines called Cirrus.

More than one person I can think of have always owned bagless vacuums at least from what I recall. They're examples of what I should NOT own, coming from someone who has mild allergies. While bagless machines don't need any bags, you're forgetting they have filters that do eventually need to be...

I'd keep your eye on eBay, occasionally I'd see them pop up from time to time. Or check with your local Riccar dealer for any trade-ins they'd get.

I used to work for vacuum shops. The R40 in my opinion are overrated. The predecessor models that came before them (known as RAD) were better machines reliability wise. The R40 has some user improvements over the RAD but made them more complicated underneath the hood circuitry wise. I later...

I used to really like Tacony, nowadays it's harder for me to recommend their products. I'll give them credit, they actually brought back the Riccar Vibrance uprights. How often do you see that from a company?

Lots of high quality machines are still basically the same.

Certainly news to me. I'll keep my eye on this thread for any updates.

Since today is flag day, thought I'd show something that I forgot about. SEBO, although a German company, once sold these textile microfilters of the American flag for their FELIX/DART models which I thought was very cool. I've also seen one with the British flag as well. Wish they were still...

Welcome back and thank you for making MD central vac units. I had one of the SilentMaster models before, other than not adding any inlets on the third floor up and out in the shed, it was the perfect vacuum for the cabin. You're exactly on point. At least that's what makes more sense to me...