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Paper bag fitting I see in your photos, that there appears to be a bit of wire holding the paper bag in place, on the bag support tube. The original fixture would have been a helical spring 'bracelet', which you rolled down to release the paper bag. When the new bag was in position, you would...

Hoover Junior Oooh, probably made at the Cambuslang Hoover factory, in Scotland! The rating plate will have the British Standard Kite mark, which denotes that it complies with the electrical tests of that time period. I think that model appeared about 1962, or later. Is it a plastic hood...

Dyson DC07 The Dyson DC07 might have had two different types of motors; it certainly had modified fine-particle cyclones. The first generation of DC07 had vortex finders on the small cyclones, which had aerofoils similar in design to aircraft propellers. These machines had that ear-splitting...

"...Why? Because the freezing kills the bacteria....&#34 Nonsense. Some bacteria might be killed, the rest will go into suspended animation. Think of the bacteria caught in ice at the South Pole, from hundreds of thousands of years ago. And it's also the reason why you don't want to put ice in...

robot vacuum to which a HOSE and ATTACHMENTS can be attached Ah yes, that would be the Dyson DC06 - which, incidentally, never went into production because it would have cost at least a couple of thousand Pounds Sterling. A shame, because I rather liked that idea too.

"What is in background of photo 2 above...?" It is a single tub, HOOVER wringer washer.

White Vortex / Red Vortex The white V2000 model went on sale at Easter 1999, I know because I bought one. The original version had a black foam exhaust filter which let through the dust. The red V2001 model was launched around September 1999, with a white, pleated S-Class filter. I ordered an...

Conquest ... uses the "Activator" agitator. Similar to the activator fitted to UK Hoover Turbopowers and Turbomasters. The Quadraflex agitator was quite different. It had brush strips in close proximity to the beater bars.

I have a vague memory of these Vax uprights being subject to a product recall. I think there was something about electrical safety.

"were made in 88. They were replaced by the Turbolite.&# Not quite. The 'activator' U1104 Juniors were on still on sale in 1990. The Turbolite was an American import into the UK. It competed with the Turbopower Softbag. The true replacement for the Junior was the horrendously atrocious...

"Why did the beater bar go out of fashion?" The 'agitator' with the metal beater bars, apparently flattened the pile on some carpets. The Turbopower 'activator' was supposed to reactivate flattened carpet pile. Remember also that the agitator body was metal (i.e. expensive). The activator, in...

A word of warning... I had a U1104. I experienced long-lasting drive belts, but at the expense of the belt pulley wearing down quite quickly. With the older round belt machines, the belts wore down quickly, but the belt pulleys lasted well. I also found that the plastic fan didn't quite...

Reply# 43 Photo 1 of 20, appears to reveal... a Phillips screw!?! What happened to the Torx screws?

"any vacuum can pick up icing sugar flour and talcum pow Yes, and pass it right through the cyclone system to coat the final filter - the filter which is not user maintainable, nor replaceable. Remember, Dyson previously stated that different cyclone designs captured different sized particles...

"don't burn wood or coal" Actually, with the high energy prices, it appears there is a shift towards wood-burning stoves. Whether or not they are good for you is another matter...

"no one's gonna pick up liquids" You wrongly assumed it was liquids. I said "accidental spillages", which can pertain to a dropped bag of icing sugar, flour, talcum powder et al. Oh, and vacuum cleaners can indeed suck up water: witness the Vax 121, Hoover Aquamaster, Electrolux Masterlux...

My point is... ...that Dyson presumes that everyone uses their cleaner to suck up ordinary household "dust" only. Which is, of course, a somewhat short-sighted outlook. We all know that people use their machines to clear up after diy, building work, accidental spillages, etc. Dyson should be...

Imagine this scenario... Mr & Mrs Smythe own a country house, with wood-burning stoves / fireplaces. They also own the Dyson Cinetic (upright or cylinder, it doesn't matter which). In the course of daily use, the fireplaces accumulate ash. Maintenance of which requires disposal of the ash...

I think Electrolux had a cyclonic machine years before the Dyson, probably only a single cyclone machine. And there were also those cyclonic interceptor modules for the industrial BVC machines, et al. Dyson took the inventive step of marrying a low efficiency cyclone and a high efficiency...

There must be something very wrong... ...with those performance ratings. I honestly don't think that Dyson, Miele et al are poor performers. It's more likely the ratings are skewed depending on who is testing them. Hence the perfectly reasonable calls for independent test centres to do the...