Five Reasons why Kirbys are guy vacuums
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cb123
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Well, Hoover never had one named " Sentria " and that sounds a whole lot like a sexy lady's name from Guyana! Sorry, but that's just my hot diarrhea spurt on this cold subject.
human
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Yeah, and 'Avalir' sounds kind of like 'cavalier' without the 'C'.
Interesting about the weight of a Kirby vs. a Hoover. I never would have guessed.
When I bought my most recent G6 at Goodwill a few weeks back, it was really amusing to see how quickly the couple who were looking at it when I got there dismissed it as "too heavy" and moved on to look at some cheap, plastic Dirt Devils while I stepped in and nabbed the Kirby.
Interesting about the weight of a Kirby vs. a Hoover. I never would have guessed.
When I bought my most recent G6 at Goodwill a few weeks back, it was really amusing to see how quickly the couple who were looking at it when I got there dismissed it as "too heavy" and moved on to look at some cheap, plastic Dirt Devils while I stepped in and nabbed the Kirby.
cb123
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Great Kirby score! All because a fool and their money is soon parted on a filthy, cheap Dirt Devil, No Less!
cb123
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Great Kirby score! All because a fool and their money is soon parted on a filthy, cheap, Dirty Evil Devil, No Less!
cb123
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I think I like " Dirty Evil Devil " the best. What do you think?
oliveoiltinfoil
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Everyone is different, but I would say I speak for the majority when I say I want a vacuum which performs well but it easy to use, efficient and gets the job done with minimal fuss. It is quite sad that Kirbys are considered "mens" vacuums just because they are bulky, heavy, expensive and made of shiny metal. So does that mean a ladies vacuum is small, fragile and inferior ? No one has actually said that yet but that's what it insinuates to me anyway.
I didn't think sexism has yet found its way into the vacuum cleaning industry and I am certainly not a politically correct person, but surely vacuums should appeal to both men and women ? She likes her Numatic henry because it is powerful and easy to use, he likes it because it is tough and durable and didn't cost a fortune.
And I am sorry, but does that mean only men want something "substantial, made of metal and quality"? I know plenty of ladies who also want something well made and durable. Several decades ago when it was more of a woman's job to do the vacuuming, they used big, bulky, made of metal vacuums, only cost cutting and a bid to save weight means they are now plastic.
I didn't think sexism has yet found its way into the vacuum cleaning industry and I am certainly not a politically correct person, but surely vacuums should appeal to both men and women ? She likes her Numatic henry because it is powerful and easy to use, he likes it because it is tough and durable and didn't cost a fortune.
And I am sorry, but does that mean only men want something "substantial, made of metal and quality"? I know plenty of ladies who also want something well made and durable. Several decades ago when it was more of a woman's job to do the vacuuming, they used big, bulky, made of metal vacuums, only cost cutting and a bid to save weight means they are now plastic.
I remember the Hoover "Z"...was clearly designed to
be a "MAN'S VACUUM"...a real 'butch' thing. It was a flop. I have a brand new one....unveiled it at a mini meet once. It works quite well. However, I'd hate to have to use it everyday.
John
be a "MAN'S VACUUM"...a real 'butch' thing. It was a flop. I have a brand new one....unveiled it at a mini meet once. It works quite well. However, I'd hate to have to use it everyday.
John
cb123
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Wouldn't it be wonderful if Kirby made a cheap, plastic trash housing for its superior power plant, that would really make those who love Kirby more loyal wouldn't it? Why do you think there're still in business, because the make putrid crap?
dysonman1
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Kirby is still in business because they don't sell their machines to people shopping for a new vacuum. The salesmen talk their way into a home, and put on a high pressure demonstration. The only way for most people to buy a Kirby is to finance it. It's an expensive and unwise purchase.
Meeting the general public EVERY DAY at the Vacuum Cleaner Museum, I have Kirby cleaners in each display room. Thousands of people come to the Museum every year, and have for six years now. No woman, and I mean NO WOMAN, has ever said she loved her Kirby. The constant refrain of "It's so heavy" and "Hard to use" and "wish I never bought it" is heard daily.
IF the Kirby were sitting next to the Shark, Dyson, and other retail vacuums, the chances are slim people would buy it. While it is a well built and durable machine, it's not user friendly.
Meeting the general public EVERY DAY at the Vacuum Cleaner Museum, I have Kirby cleaners in each display room. Thousands of people come to the Museum every year, and have for six years now. No woman, and I mean NO WOMAN, has ever said she loved her Kirby. The constant refrain of "It's so heavy" and "Hard to use" and "wish I never bought it" is heard daily.
IF the Kirby were sitting next to the Shark, Dyson, and other retail vacuums, the chances are slim people would buy it. While it is a well built and durable machine, it's not user friendly.
cb123
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...Or you can just keep buying cheap plastic vacuums, which really aren't that cheap, over and over again, until finally, your out of that money we all so, soooo much love!
I Really,really DON'T like hose and tools on board uprights-the machines are bulky,awkward and handle heavy.The Hoses are often too short to be useful.And if the hose is long its elastic nature makes it hard to use-you are fighting it-and trying to hold the machine to keep it from tipping over or banging into you from the tension of the hose.And another final indiginity the tools fall off as you go leaving a trail of lost tools unless you PRECISELY clip them back on the machine.Canister for me-for those "Hose&Bag" jobs.I don't mind the separate hose on the Kirby-Its better designed than the hoses on other uprights.You can make the Kirby follow you with a simple tug on the hose just as with a canister vacuum.I keep the upright handle on the machine-keeps the bag stretched out for best performance and the handle makes it easier to move by hand if needed.Kirby really is still in business because they make a SUPERIOR machine-it will last long after the payments have been made.ALL DTD vacuums are typically sold with the monthly payment plans-not just Kirbys.And all DTD vacuums brands still last and perform long after the payments have been completed.Then its like having a nice vacuum for free!No having to buy bagless dreck every other year!You add up the cost of that--and after a few years that will pay for your Kirby or other higher quality DTD premium vacuum.When me and another man sold TriStars DTD-the payment plan was the most commonly used pay method.Another thing to say about the hose on the Kirby-its down low so the machine won't tip-but the BIG disadvange of the Kirby "canister" is whatever you pick up goes thru the fan at the highest motor speed.This could be bad if you pick up that large pebble off your cars floor or the quarter stuck in behind the couch cushion.Kirby should put a "trap" on the hose connector to prevent large objects from getting to the fan.Kinda like on the NSS M1.NSS did this with the hose attachment for Bronco motors.You could put a hose and bag on the Bronco WD vacuum motor and use it like a "hip" vacuum-powerful one at that-12A motor!
cb123
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The on-board attachments are designed about as well as the cheapo plastic trash they're pimping out, nowadays! For big time bucks no less!!! For five or six of them, you could buy two or three Kirbys, which could last two or three life times before you had to even replace the brushes. Or, you could do something stupid, like go to dysonman1 and buy a $600.00 piece of clap rattle trash a year! Please remember, the choice is yours my friend.
you tell my mum
her kirby is a mans vac and she would wrap it round your head and say now tell me again what is it ? My grandma cleaned a local cinema with a hoover comercial[one butch looking vacuum] and thought nothing of running up stairs carrying the thing of course both these women are form an older generation that were used to hard work and we also have to remember pushing a heavy vacuum was still a far cry from cleaning with brooms
her kirby is a mans vac and she would wrap it round your head and say now tell me again what is it ? My grandma cleaned a local cinema with a hoover comercial[one butch looking vacuum] and thought nothing of running up stairs carrying the thing of course both these women are form an older generation that were used to hard work and we also have to remember pushing a heavy vacuum was still a far cry from cleaning with brooms
cb123
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Well, we can't help that you have poor taste in your neck of the woods! But I can tell you this, where I'm from, the plastic scrappers scrap Dysons instead, and let me tell ya somethin', they don't make a whole lot of money at it either. They pretty much quite often have to collect aluminum cans on the side of the roads, to help make ends meet. And let me tell ya somethin' else, there's a lot of crosses which marks the spot where they got t-boned by a monster truck. Kinda makes you want to stay in school and get an education, because, MAN, a Dyson will put you under Boot hill faster than a plastic Vac can breakdown...And that's a fact, Jack!
You can look in the vac store dumpster out my way--LOTS of Dysons and other dirty,dusty,broken bagless vacs just waiting for the FL trash trucks crusher!!!One time listened at another vac shops compactor after pushing the button-the merry CRUNCH of bagless dreck being crushed!!!The mixed plastics in Dysons and other vacs,and even other products is not useful to plastics recyclers---so it goes to the landfill!Then crushed AGAIN by the landfill dozer compactor tractor.I see VERY FEW Kirbys and other metal vacs being "recycled" unless its to be used at another home!The trash company that services the dumpster at the vac shop here is of all things "Pa-ker" trash and recycling--and they use PacMor Bodies on International truck chassis.
cb123
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I couldn't have said any better myself, tolivac! That trash sounds pretty toxic and Not much good for anything else. Thank you for your enlighten words, but I'm pretty sure they will fall upon deaf and dumb ears....they drank the poison Dyson Kool-Aid -- don't you know.
durango159
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I'd prefer a Royal Power Tank for a Man's Vac!!
I've only tried one once but I think a machine truly for a man is the Royal Power Tank!! It meets many of your categories above of lots of parts, lots of metal. The Royal also has lots of power, adjustable power, fingertip controls, a long hose and being a canister it's awesome for the car, cleaning under beds and other things.
Even as strong men, things don't have to weigh tons just to be liked. They just have to feel solid, and be well constructed. They have to perform well and with ease without a lot of configuration. We want the biggest tool to get the job done faster.
Below is a link to a good one in a gorgeous Navy blue with decent power nozzle!
http://www.vacuumland.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?9606
I've only tried one once but I think a machine truly for a man is the Royal Power Tank!! It meets many of your categories above of lots of parts, lots of metal. The Royal also has lots of power, adjustable power, fingertip controls, a long hose and being a canister it's awesome for the car, cleaning under beds and other things.
Even as strong men, things don't have to weigh tons just to be liked. They just have to feel solid, and be well constructed. They have to perform well and with ease without a lot of configuration. We want the biggest tool to get the job done faster.
Below is a link to a good one in a gorgeous Navy blue with decent power nozzle!
http://www.vacuumland.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?9606
marks_here
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I really like
My new Avalir!! Yes I bought one..lol BUT not at door-to-door prices..nononononono way in hell was I paying door-to-door prices & getting insulted by some punk kids!
My new Avalir!! Yes I bought one..lol BUT not at door-to-door prices..nononononono way in hell was I paying door-to-door prices & getting insulted by some punk kids!
Oh yes,forgot about the Royal Power Tanks-have a few of these beasts-GREAT machines.I knew one user of these-SHE was not a man of course but loved hers for commercial cleaning.I feel TTI was so very stupid in discontining these machines in favor of a crummy plastic model!Another good Royal "Man-Vac" would be a Royal Prince hand vac-not only good for car upolstery cleaning-but furniture in the man cave--or pool table tops!Another great one discontinued by the dummies at TTI!
kirbyloverdan
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Rex
TTi did NOT discontinue Royal power tanks Royal did that before TTi took over !!!
Dan
TTi did NOT discontinue Royal power tanks Royal did that before TTi took over !!!
Dan
human
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Back when I lived in an apartment complex, I would see plastic vacs out by the dumpsters every week. I rescued a few of them, replaced bags and belts and either sold them, donated them or gave them away. One Dirt Devil Featherlite I rescued is still in use at my church. But in 10 years at that complex, I only saw one metal vac--my first Kirby G6--by the dumpsters. And that's what set me down this strange and twisted road of accumulating vacuum cleaners.
cb123
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Thanks Jeschbac, I do give it the good college try! But even still, I'm most probably just peeing in the wind. Just simply because some of these people's wallets are thicker than their skulls.
I would like to see the Royal Power tanks and Prince hand vacs revived!!!Some of the vac shop customers ask about these machines and want them.
durango159
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I have a Prince
I just found this at my Goodwill not long ago. Already got it cleaned up. It is powerful and quiet. Came with original box, tools, belts, bags and paperwork! It was originally bought for around $85!
I just found this at my Goodwill not long ago. Already got it cleaned up. It is powerful and quiet. Came with original box, tools, belts, bags and paperwork! It was originally bought for around $85!
Kirbys are VERY
Well made, and they clean carpet very well,but my Aunt bought one in 76, a Omega, now she admitted it cleaned her carpet well, but I don't think I ever heard as much old fashioned NC CUSSING as I did over that Kirby, GD SOB was used often, in 84 she bought a Electrolux Silverado that my Cousin is still using, I have never seen a woman that could put the hose and attachments on without getting mad!!If my aunt wanted to dust or clean out her car, she had to get my Cousin to put the hose on.I can remember that all these years later..."NOEL, come put the hose on this GDSOB!!?
Well made, and they clean carpet very well,but my Aunt bought one in 76, a Omega, now she admitted it cleaned her carpet well, but I don't think I ever heard as much old fashioned NC CUSSING as I did over that Kirby, GD SOB was used often, in 84 she bought a Electrolux Silverado that my Cousin is still using, I have never seen a woman that could put the hose and attachments on without getting mad!!If my aunt wanted to dust or clean out her car, she had to get my Cousin to put the hose on.I can remember that all these years later..."NOEL, come put the hose on this GDSOB!!?
