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Well I've done it again and acquired another impractical machine 🤣. I figured it would be a fun little addition.

Onepwr Yeah it's kind of a shame they were hovering around 200 for a while which is a pretty good deal but the design lives on under the commercial lineup with a 40v battery now. OH I guess those orecks as seen above are part of the commercial lineup

Not fond of it We've seen the Hoover name on the cordless orecks we've seen the royal name on an oreck too. It's weird but I can't say I'm surprised by it.

Some revisions My my such an old thread and man was I clueless at the time. The CS does not use a brushless motor it's a brushed motor made by Johnson Electric there were rumors that it would be brushless and I think it having the brushes near the front of the fan case only fueled this rumor...

Well... From what I've read the metal shielded ones are better for high speed environments due to the heat conductivity of the metal. Where rubber gaskets are better for keeping material out of the bearings like dirt or water. You can use either or in many cases, it seems. I tend to use rubber...

Oh! Well I'd just go with a Proteam FS6 then. I have one and it's airflow according to my readings are 123 cfm at the hose end for the 1.25 hose with the electric nozzle kit or about 149 CFM at the end of the standard non electric 1.5" hose. They do have hepa after filters as standard. So...

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Options You've got some options here. You can retrofit most backpacks with a power nozzle thanks to this adapter cord and the wessel werk retrofit hose, you can buy a premade retrofit kit, or buy a unit that includes the power nozzle setup Pigtail adapter cord $39.99 Wessel Werk Retrofit hose...

It's a shame I Like their robots more than many of the other ones. The full sized brushroll I feel will deliver a better cleaning than many of the competitors which use a narrow brushroll with two side brushes. In addition to that their navigation while imperfect seemed to do a good job. I do...

a thought So were you getting continuity through those ports? A fairly common failure for the brushroll not running was the micro switch in the heads which is meant to shut off the brushroll when the unit was upright. If you're new to taking the head apart know that there may be screws beneath...

Missing bag collar Hmm have you tried looking for an equivalent Philips part? I see they make hepa bags for the Oslo+ style and may import some when the paper ones run out. As for the airway it's straight suction

Just back from a trip where I met up with my friend Josh who had picked up the Dirt Devil and Airway for me. We traded my Soniclean for the airram. I took a trip out to a vac shop where the owner lets me go through his used vacs where the Kirby D50 (bags in the garage) the Hoover 33 and the...

Aha! Thanks for the confirmation! I'm even more curious about them now due to the unusual design.

Possible via holes Well wessel werk does make a head with cutouts in it so I mean you could just do something similar, if necessary. The est really isn't too powerful a machine so if you do find it necessary I'd start from the outside adding them one at a time.

Gravedigging! Sorry to revive such an old topic but one of these has recently come up for sale so I'll be sharing photos from the ad as well as a link to the ad, it's over in WI. It's an odd machine. With no visible model tag I only found out what it was due to the Type N bags in the photos...

Why? Why does Kirby seem to shy away from discussing their old prototypes. I think it would be rather interesting to see what they've tried over the years, and perhaps know why they decided not to further pursue them.

No answer Just curious have you tried the soft carpet plate for your felix? it adds some bleeder holes so that it can't clamp as much. Part number 2302SC As for the hyla, despite owning an est, I can't say for sure but the fact that it has no height adjustment or suction relief valve doesn't...

Well... We mostly have windsor versmatic pluses which have now been discontinued so they'll be replaced with versamatics when the pluses go. We also have Proteam backpacks but very few people use them. There's also the odd advance carpetreiver 28

I like them I had one of the bernina badged 6700s way back when and currently have a slightly newer model 6709Z which was a candidate for my daily driver before I settled on the proteam 1500xp. They're a simple machine which works well

Been there. Don't beat yourself up about it. You at least made an effort to pass them on. I've done that before too if something fails to sell it gets donated or tossed depending on what it is. Once you've decided to part with something you want it done with you don't want it sitting around...