Dirt Devil Broom Vac (thrift store find)

[gottahaveahoove]

Cassie,

I thought you ended up with it.
I once dated someone who had one, along with a Eureeeeka upright and a Miele. I should have known then. [this post was last edited: 1/27/2022-13:31]

 

[gottahaveahoove]

Those mini meets were fun.

Yesterday, in fact, was the anniversary of the last meet hosted here. All of the Christmas stuff was up. It all came down right after... like now.
They were fun times, well, mostly.

 

[jo]

I had one

Found on someone’s trash. I felt the switch could Have been a better design that could have been foot operated and while the telescopic handle was nice especially when one needs to take a vac in the car and has a tight space…I always felt there were some definite design flaws with it. 1. The brush roll is too far back so can’t clean that space on the steps between the step and the riser where crap gets pushed. I know there’s suction grooves on the bottom plate but without brushing and direct suction action it didn’t do the job. Secondly the brush roller only has one strip of bristles resulting in missed groomed areas and funny patterns on the pile of the carpet. Only way to get it to sweep the carpet more thoroughly is to go half speed strokes.

Next problem is if you vacuum too fast the whole front pulls up from the floor very easily resulting in no contact at all with the floor or carpet which is just useless and dumb. This is partially the fault of the handle spring and the light weight plastic materials used on the motor body. I eventually sent mine off to thrift because it really wasn’t all that good. Generally a perfect representation of Royal’s poor engineering of dirt devil machines. They’re right up there with the cheap Bissells IMO…America’s plasti crap. Sorry to poo poo this little machine. The concept of being a mini Kirby or mini Royal was nice but the follow through just downright sucks. Oh and using this thing with attachments….just as difficult to convert as a Kirby and one has to remove the belt. Ugh.

I guess I can see that it is fun to collect interesting concepts in machines if you have the room for them…even if they are poorly engineered and performing. It is a cute concept…but a frustrating performer.

Jon