Bisons?????

[twocvbloke]

"Kirby bags never again"

Except that it uses cheap pleated filters which you only have to buy when they clog up.....

 

[scvacuumguy]

It looks to me like a Eureka tank- the one that uses the DCF 10/14 filter. I'd give him an A for creativity, but the whole idea really chokes off the airflow on the Kirby. The airflow is what makes a Kirby a decent machine- so I'd imagine with the addition of that tank, the Kirby will have a hard time performing. It probably also packs that filter very quickly, considering those filters are used to the crap Eureka Optima and its sorry little amount of suction.

 

[twocvbloke]

Yep, I would rather use an F&G setup on a Kirby than his "invention", heck, even a Baird "cloth handkerchief" dirt meter would work better...

I tried making my own actually, out of our former DC-04's bin, but I discovered that a bagless bin is meant for Negative pressure, not the Positive pressure that a Dirty Fan vac produces, cos every seal blew dust out...

That's a thought, I wonder if the Bison bag setup is interchangeable with a Kirby's?

 

[scvacuumguy]

That would be interesting to find out. Unfortunately, I don't have a Bison. I'd love one though, hint hint...all I've got is money to spend on one as well.

 

[bisonian]

No ...

The bag assemblies for Bisons and Kirbys are not interchangeable. The fittings that hold the emptors on the machines are different.

 

[tolivac]

Not wanting to use disposable bags in the Kirby--Why doesn't Mr Keeler try to develop a Dump bag system for the Kirby--Like WHAT THEY USED TO USE.Would rather have a dump bag than Mr Keelers unit.

 

[twocvbloke]

Which is why I have shakeout AND disposable bag setups for my Kirbys Tradition and Heritage84, so I have the best of both worlds...

I'm guessing that the Bison bag setup works very much like the Kirby shake-out setup? Drop the nozzle down, give the motor a blast, shake the crap out of the bag (literally), dump it out onto newspaper, scrape the bag out, dump out and roll the news paper up and chuck it in the compost/rubbish...