amtraksebo1997
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After 16 years, I finally got one... and only days after getting that Lift Off. I now have a late 2000s-early 2010s Dirt Devil Breeze bagless upright vacuum!
This is a machine that I've been wanting to get my hands on for a long time now, ever since I saw them un stores, at one of my old babysitters' houses, etc. To me, this machine is what I think of when someone says the term "bagless vacuum". It's just such a generic bagless design that I love so much!
As for how I got it, that's a bit of a doozie. Basically, I saw one day that my neighbors had this machine in their garage. I thought at the time that it was cool that he just so happened to have this dream machine of mine, but I thought I wouldn't be able to get my hands on it from him, and even if I did, it'd probably be in poor shape. Well, fast forward to a last week, and I saw it again. The day after that, it was at the curb. Not bearing the sight of seeing this machine get thrown into a dump and destroyed, I grabbed it and threw it into my mom's shed. She was pretty steamed at me for doing so, but eventually I moved it over to my dad's. I asked my neighbor why he threw it out, and he said that he just did it to clear up space, and that he wasn't aware of anything wrong with it.
Upon opening it up, it was gross and dusty... The head was packed with all kinds of debris and such, and the belt was snapped (suprising, I know). It had all of it's attachments except for the wand (the one on it right now is a Hoover wand from my stash of extra tools). In general, it was just gross. I speculate that it was being used as a dry-only Shop-Vac, hense why it was in the garage, but I could be wrong. 40 or so disinfecting wipes and a cleaning off with my Kirby G7 later, and it looks more or less new.
I just turned it on for the first time. The headlight works, the suction's good, and the motor sounds fine (aside from the small amount of arching, or whatever the term is, coming from the carbon brushes). All it seems to need is a new filter and belt (or should I say, belts), a matching wand, and possibly a new brushroll (the one that's in it doesn't spin the most freely, and I don't know if the end-caps come off).
Finally, as I was cleaning it out, I found how easy and simple it was to do so. All of the screws in it are the same size, all of the electrical components are in the base, and said base easily comes off with 4 screws. I guess I shouldn't be super suprised, considering this was a budget machine back in the day, but it's still appreciated nonetheless (especially for someone not as skilled in servicing vacuums like me).
Also, ignore the creature that may show up in some of the photos. I think our house is haunted by some class 6 entity, and it only shows up in pictures sometimes. We gotta call the Ghostbusters to flush it out! ;]






This is a machine that I've been wanting to get my hands on for a long time now, ever since I saw them un stores, at one of my old babysitters' houses, etc. To me, this machine is what I think of when someone says the term "bagless vacuum". It's just such a generic bagless design that I love so much!
As for how I got it, that's a bit of a doozie. Basically, I saw one day that my neighbors had this machine in their garage. I thought at the time that it was cool that he just so happened to have this dream machine of mine, but I thought I wouldn't be able to get my hands on it from him, and even if I did, it'd probably be in poor shape. Well, fast forward to a last week, and I saw it again. The day after that, it was at the curb. Not bearing the sight of seeing this machine get thrown into a dump and destroyed, I grabbed it and threw it into my mom's shed. She was pretty steamed at me for doing so, but eventually I moved it over to my dad's. I asked my neighbor why he threw it out, and he said that he just did it to clear up space, and that he wasn't aware of anything wrong with it.
Upon opening it up, it was gross and dusty... The head was packed with all kinds of debris and such, and the belt was snapped (suprising, I know). It had all of it's attachments except for the wand (the one on it right now is a Hoover wand from my stash of extra tools). In general, it was just gross. I speculate that it was being used as a dry-only Shop-Vac, hense why it was in the garage, but I could be wrong. 40 or so disinfecting wipes and a cleaning off with my Kirby G7 later, and it looks more or less new.
I just turned it on for the first time. The headlight works, the suction's good, and the motor sounds fine (aside from the small amount of arching, or whatever the term is, coming from the carbon brushes). All it seems to need is a new filter and belt (or should I say, belts), a matching wand, and possibly a new brushroll (the one that's in it doesn't spin the most freely, and I don't know if the end-caps come off).
Finally, as I was cleaning it out, I found how easy and simple it was to do so. All of the screws in it are the same size, all of the electrical components are in the base, and said base easily comes off with 4 screws. I guess I shouldn't be super suprised, considering this was a budget machine back in the day, but it's still appreciated nonetheless (especially for someone not as skilled in servicing vacuums like me).
Also, ignore the creature that may show up in some of the photos. I think our house is haunted by some class 6 entity, and it only shows up in pictures sometimes. We gotta call the Ghostbusters to flush it out! ;]





