A new cardboard vacuum cleaner.....

[kirbymodel2c]

Hi, I've just come across this... A cardboard vacuum cleaner.
Will you be rushing to buy one??

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/40822/vax-ex-cardboard-vacuum-cleaner

James)

 

[massagemiracle]

"Not"!

 

[twocvbloke]

Yeah, they wouldn't last too long in a damp house (which a lot of houses are these days with people not able to afford repairs thanks to the government & their extortionate taxes), I'm all in favour of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, but, they're just using that for a marketing gimmick, it won't work...

 

[gsheen]

cardboard

I wonder if they make a wet& dry model

 

[twocvbloke]

It'd be funny if they did do a W&D, the thing would just implode on itself....

 

[vacbear58]

The thing is ...

Its not a new concept at all. There has been at least one US cleaner with a cardboard body mentioned in the Vintage forum, and I have a Goblin, not sure if 1940s or 1950s, and that too has a cardboard body as I was somewhat surprised to find. What alerted me to the fact was how light it was.

Seeing its marked as a Vax I wonder will it be a Hoover in the US?

Al

 

[twocvbloke]

I think it would definitely be marketed (if they do market it) as a Hoover over int he states, being a TTI brand...

 

[gsheen]

I heard it was a theasus by an engineer doing his undergrad at VAX


 


I wonder how it will pass saftey tests. I don't see it standing up to the stringent UL tests, If the motor burns out it could set the whole machine on fire

 

[twocvbloke]

Well, they say they put fire retardants into the cardboard to prevent fires, but, I still don't think it would take off...

 

[rickenbacker]

I've seen this a lot online and was gunna post about it myself lol. It seems like a poor idea for a company like vax really doesn't it? They're not built in the best of ways anyway, I don't think that a cardboard construction is gunna help. It's as if it's a parody of it's self! lol

I miss the older VAX wet drys *Sigh*

 

[gsheen]

Those are the best ones , I see to many problems with this cardboard machine. I think its pure marketing . It is getting the vax name out there

 

[twocvbloke]

When I think of the name "Vax", I see a big orange wet & dry cannister vac, made for proper wet carpet cleaning in the home, but when I look at Vax products these days, all I see is plastic junk, even the Quick-lite I have is a pile of number two, poor design, poor quality and poor engineering, and the reason, because the brand was sold to a chinese company who just couldn't care less about their products... :&#92

And if this cardboard Vax is made, you can bet your bottom that it won't last longer than a week, if that...

 

[rob_89]

Have to agree, I think this is more about good publicity for Vax. The cleaner was a final year industrial design student project, though I notice he completed a placement with Vax, so they may have set the brief. Cardboard is often used for sketch models when designing something such as a vacuum, so perhaps that is partly where the inspiration came from?

The Pocketlint article mentions a possible production run, if it does make it, it will be interesting to see how much the concept is refined first. I'd consider buying one for a sensible price!

Rob

 

[gsheen]

Vax wet& dry's

I love those old vax et & dry vacuums , I have an orange oand black one and a grey model.


They just won't die

 

[kirbysthebest]

I bet it would fit right in with my Paper Mache dishwasher.

 

[kenkart]

I hate to tell you!!

But I have a cardboard Montgomery Ward from the late 40s that is as good as ever, after all these years!

 

[twocvbloke]

From the 1940's eh? Back when engineers actually took pride in their work? Unlike today...

 

[kirbymodel2c]

Well...

Well I think Bounty Kitchen towel (Now called Plenty here in the UK)should make a wet and dry vac. It should clean up wet spills well!! lol;o)

James)

 

[twocvbloke]

Well it's boun' tee....

(Northerner joke there for you!!!)