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I’d take a few brush rolls if available, I have like 20 Thunders/Domestics/Destinys some are near mint and will outlast the existing rollers.

Just looks like a bad motor, dirt won’t kill these that fast. I’ve got at least a dozen of them. After a few years they get clogged with larger lint and if you don’t take em apart and take a pipe cleaner through the vanes they get filled with lint and efficiency decreases, then they die. If this...

Sonwil I tried to do some digging into what happened when Fantom closed. I did find a ton of patents that were sold off for some money to another company. The may have inherited rights going forward for due to the licensed patents from Dyson. Presumably if the refurbishment work was effective...

Found a 1979 one NOS at goodwill a few years ago, had it installed during my kitchen remodel 2 years ago

Yep the wax works These were super super easy to find here in Buffalo in the late 1990s early 2000s, so after I got a job and car I used to pick them up out of the garbage, or get them at thrift stores, clean and polish them with car wax then sell them for $50 to co workers and online. Fantoms...

Thunders were made right up until the end in 2001. I have one made probably weeks before they went bankrupt. They also rebuilt them right up until the end too.

Liquid carnauba car wax will shine a Fantom right up to like new condition. I've got tons of Thunders, they last virtually forever. I'm not sure what Sonwil actually means. 200 Sonwil drive (behind the Buffalo airport there are a bunch of warehouse buildings) was one of Fantom's US addresses...

Yeah it was around 1991 Sears here carried them. I remember the 9 amp ones being on clearance when the 11 amp ones arrived. I don't know if it was nationwide distribution or just because we were close to the whole operation.

Wow 9 amp ones are had to find. I've only seen one ever, they imported them through Buffalo where I live and I've seen tons of Fantoms over the years and own 20 or more. I garbage picked a Fantom version once, there are some minor variations, the Fantom one had a longer cyclone cone than normal...

My dad has an older one in the basement for when he isn't running the pellet stove, goes to 1625 watts.

My analogy of the tea kettle wasn't about the evaporation but rather to state there were noticeable minerals in water that wasn't even that hard, if you wash the HEPA filter in that or slosh the water around creating droplets I'd think one too could eventually leave enough deposits to hinder air...

I would think so I just bought a new electric tea kettle, there are already minerals collecting on the stainless and I have been using it for maybe a week, my water isn't even that hard.

Minerals in the water I bet it's not so much the dust as thenfilters mostly remain white but rather minerals from hard water that clog the filters. I wonder what would happen with filtered or distilled water.

Breadcrumbs, ketchup and onion but the real secret to an awesome meatloaf is mix in shredded mimolette cheese.

Trademarks If the trademarks are unused and not renewed for a certain period of time they revert to public domain. I don't think Fantom is anywhere near that yet.

Shrunken TV department is common, they said they wanted to shift the bulk of electronics sales to online a few quarters ago, makes sense TVs have low markup but with ever bigger screens take up lots of floor room. Oddly the Kmart has a massive amount of TVs a huge long aisle of TVs. Ours...

Shark should just rerelease the original designs I'm sure the necessary patents are up, the Thunder/Domestic is probably still the best performing cyclonic bagless released in North America.

I was just at a fairly well maintained Kmart, looks like they shifted most of the vac line to Kenmore branded vacs but they're the lower end of the ones they carry at Sears. Our Sears just expanded the vac department and also seems to be focusing more on Kenmore branded vacs.

I wouldn't say Fantom died quickly they were around for a good 12 years and killed themselves. They sold in droves though and I still regularly see them in thrift stores. When I worked in housewares in college I literally ordered pallets of Furys and they sold like hot cakes. Samsung still...

The Sears closest to me just expanded their Vac dept since we were last there. This must be on a store by store basis.