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Ehhh, Sptyks... Your Kirby bias is showing... I wouldn't say a Kirby will necessarily still be running when a Miele will be in the junkyard. The amount of Kirbys I've gotten rid of at work that were far beyond repair is pretty high. Kirby parts aren't inexpensive. Are they less than most Miele...

Capture... Is about as fine as Arm & Hammer Carpet Fresh and products like it, just less coarse. The Oreck powder is actually just Capture wrapped up in their branding and therefore more expensive. Best way to use it would be with a vacuum that cleans well with HEPA bags. Bonus if it's...

I... Remember back in the day when Target sold this as a Sunbeam of many people complaining it caught on fire... I'm sure the quality is pretty horrible, interesting thing is the brushroll inside it looks like a rip off of the Hoover Activator. About the only nice thing about it is the...

Vapamore... They actually aren't all that foolish. If it's anything like what the warranty is like on the Steamers we sell here at work there's a nice little catch to that. To redeem that warranty you need to pack the entire machine up and ship it at your cost to them in AZ, along with a...

Gotta... Love the TTI mark up. For the price I still think the old Regina based XL Shield Power Scrubber is the better value. Not sure about performance, but surely more robust and reliable. I have no clue how that thing has managed to stay around for as long at it has, much less stick around...

They're... Pretty bad really. It's just a Hoover in an Oreck suit. We've had a countless amount of the Hoover model come in the shop since they came out. They use an expensive and uncommon flat synthetic belt thats prone to breaking as well...

The... Bissell machines of any kind tend to be a cheaply built mess these days. We've had just about every recent model in shortly after release for major issues, be it motor failure, tank/seal/gasket failure leaking water everywhere, issues with pumps. Basically you name it we've seen it, I...

Litter... Collection along with other grit is pretty normal for the Volt/Tacony lightweight machines. The issue comes from how the belt channel is set up. It doesn't really get sealed off all that well and allows heavier particles to bounce out of the air stream and into the case. If you remove...

Yep... Rugmaster and the Express are the same PN. Most of the Beam PNs are Eureka/Eurekalux sourced. The one you linked is a pretty meh IMO Eureka PN from most of their late 90s/mid 2000s canisters. It uses a large diameter brushroll with stiff bristles similar to what's in the Boss Smartvac...

Vibra Groomer Differences... The VGI is a spiral/helix shaped brushroll. It has four "slots" with two beater bars and two strips of brushes. You can swap in any combination you like so you can have all brushes or all beater bars if you want something almost like a rug badger. The VGII is a more...

I... Can't tell if the one in the first link has a pigtail or not. It most likely does, however I'm going to link an eBay seller that has one with a two prong pigtail for far less. This one is the cheapest I've been able to find...

It's... Just the much loved Eureka Express PN from the Express canister line up. The Eureka one is still the genuine article, the Dust Care is a cheap Chinese knock-off. The only good thing the Dust Care brings to the table is a a geared belt versus the traditional stretch belt in the Express...

Best... Pet hair tool/turbo brush I've run across that doesn't tangle and needs minimal cleaning with easy disassembly is the Kirby Zip brush. That thing is almost impossible to bog down, incredibly well balanced and free spinning even my ClearTrack with relatively low suction and airflow was...

Phillip... Are the Koblenz HEPA bags actually cloth? From what I've always seen online of them they appear to be paper, and I've stayed away thus far. As for the HEPA bags linked in this post I've been very impressed! I ordered my bags sometime after noon on Saturday the 4th, before I had even...

Thank you! I'm glad you posted about this. I've seen and heard of F&G HEPA bags but had never been able to track them down myself. I just placed an order for two packs and I'll report back here with how they perform. As for the Envirocare bags I've never been too impressed with them myself. We...

From... What we've been able to see at my place of work is that this is an early sign of motor/motor bearing failure. If you replace the HEPA so there is less resistance of air flow it may help to some degree. The DC24/25 and all Ball models since have horridly cheap and poorly built motors...

Still... Germany. Only machines that will be made in China at this point in time AFAK are the QuickStep S1/Swing H1, C1 Compact, and C2 Complete Limited Edition. All other machines are made in Germany. Although even the "Chinese" machines use parts made in Germany, they're about as Chinese as...

Exactly... The same. Maverick is the model replacing the Twist, same machine new name and color. Every Miele upright performs the same, Twist/Maverick lose the light and only have an AirClean filter, Salsa/Jazz have a light and a HEPA filter, Cat & Dog has the STB101 Mini Turbo tool and the...

Best... To just go with the "classic" Hoover SteamVac, still the most fool proof and reliable of the whole consumer market. We sell refurbished units at work and haven't seen any come back with an issue. Normally the only thing that does go bad is the turbine, and that tends to be after 10+...

Those... Machines with the single cyclonic logo are actually dual cyclonic machines. Fantom was bankrupt before Westinghouse ever started selling machines. The Crosswind machines looked drastically different to the one you posted a picture of, and had canister systems based closely on that of...