Flushing a Kirby G4 with water....Oh No.....

[sptyks]

This is the dumbest thing I've read in a while. I don't know whether to laugh or feel sorry for this guy: 


 


<span class="size14" style="font-size: 14px;">Kirby G4 not working.</span>
Original Message   Dec 13, 2012 5:18 pm  


<div class="size14" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; padding: 10px 10px 10px 32px; margin: 0px 10px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-color: #e9e9e9; background-color: #f6f4e5;">I have a Kirby G4 vacuum from about 1993 and I recently vacuumed over a smelly patch in my carpet that left the vacuum smelling terrible. I proceeded to take the vacuum outside and flushed water through the whole system ( Under the impression that it was perfectly sealed.) I turned it on and off about 4 times during the flush out and on the last turn on - It didn't . I know it sounds really stupid that I did that. But I had to get rid of the smell, I couldn't stand it > So I am trying to get the face plate off and it seems as if it was put on with JB WELD!! I CANNOT GET IT OFF! I was very surprised to see how much water the g4 could flush out of its system. And yes, the smell is gone. So why is the faceplate so hard to get off? And nothing looks wet in the body, so why is the vacuum not turning on? Thanks, The CleaningVacuum.</div>

 

[super-sweeper]

Gosh, that reminds me of a top-secret project here at KSSRC....You heard nothing! 

 

[marks_here]

Where do these people come from???

 

[sbakerde]

Wow.

Even duct tape can't fix stupid. SMH

 

[marks_here]

I have a license plate that says "STUPID SHOULD HURT"

 

[kirbysthebest]

So, I don't understand. Is it a group consensus. Doesn't everyone clean out their Kirbys this way?


HIJACK Alert:
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Additional stupidity.
I once heard of a woman that used her Kirby to pump out her Kids swimming pool. Then was P'd because they voided her warranty. Guess she could have still sent it in for a rebuild.

Yea-yea, and then there was the guy that put a glow stick in the microwave. Eventually they will do themselves in and we won't have to worry anymore.

 

[marks_here]

I mean some people think I'm peculiar because while wait for my mum to try something on I tore a rag several times near the ladies dressing room which caused a complete panic in there or taking a kiwi & rolling across the produce floor & yelling "MOUSE" which caused a scramble .... yep I guess that's normal washing out a Kirby G4

 

[tolivac]

About 40 yrs ago --Kirby dealer of Forestville,MD (Wash DC suburb)showed me a 500 series Kirby someone used to clean or try to clean the bottom of a swimming pool that still had some water in it and gravel on the bottom.The fan was almost gone,many dents in the fancase-and the bag bleached and torn from the pool water.He mentioned the user didn't get electrocuted-he and I were surprized they weren't.He kept the machine on display in his shop on WHAT NOT to use your Kirby for!He also put on an amusing Kirby demo---another use for Kirby powerplant--use it as a gyroscope!And he did the "blowing ball" trick as a magic trick to amuse a prospects kids.

 

[tolivac]

Then there is the woman that tried to use her Dyson vacuum like a Rainbow-she insisted the fill line on the Dyson bin was for the water level!

 

[sptyks]

Ha ha Rex. That Dyson fill line story made my day.


 

 

[super-sweeper]

I remember a story one member told here a while back! Whoever he was, he was a piano tuner, and went off to a client's house. he asked if they had a vacuum for him to use, and they brought him a Dirt-Devil Featherlite (That stereotypical filter-in-the-bin bagless model!). He turned it on, and noticed it had no suction. he turned around, and saw that not only was the filter SOAKED, but the bin still had water! He went on to say he could've been electrocuted, and that when some people see a clear bin, they think, "WET/DRY!!!!"! 


 


And then there was the case of the man and his dry Filter-Queen.....

 


Somebody needs to make another vac-shop horror stories thread! 

 

[kenkart]

One of the BEST stories!

Was the local Rainbow guy...who's dad was and still is a Rainbow dealer...anyhow..he needed some gas  for the lawnmower, so he took the old model D they used in the garage, and proceeded to tape a garden hose on to the hose, and siphoned the gas out of his mothers car.....the old D went BOOM and went up in the air like a rocket.....gas fumes and motor brushes do not mix!!!!

 

[kirby519]

I heard a story form a friend of mine who sold Kirbys for years. The boys in the family discovered that the kirby makes a good water pistol. They took the bag off the machine. Attached the hose to the intake and went out side with the vacuum. They were found or found out about that they were sucking up water and mud out of the puddles in the yard and dousing each other with the spray from the exaust. It's a wonder they lived to tell the story on several levels. Mom was hopping mad.

Another one was a friend of ours had sons into racing. Being the the vacuum they used in the garage wasn't as good as mom's. He took her Kirby Classic III and vacuumed out all the glass shards from removing/breaking out the windows in the car that would be used for demolition derby racing. Boy was she mad the next time she went to use the vacuum. She discovered the bag was full of safty glass from the car windows. She ripped him a new one.

 

[super-sweeper]

LOL I'm sure the Kirby lived to clean again after all that safety glass! 

 

[bikerray]

You mean my Kirby G4 isn't a bathtub toy ????

There was an Electrolux salesman around here that had just delivered a brand new Super J to this one woman. A couple of hours later he got a call from her that the Super J didn't work. He went back out there to find out her kids had sucked the water out of the toilet into the Super J. I think he gave her a new unit and told her not to let her kids near it.

 

[kirby519]

Super-sweeper

yes it did infact live on to clean that home and the new home that was built until the central vacuum system was up and running. Now one of the other son's has it to clean his house.

 

[anthony]

back in 1962

my mum was vacuuming the bedrooms with our Hoover Constelation .the phone rang mum ran downstairs to answre it leaving the connie running i stuck the hose down the toilet sucking all the water out [i was only five]needless to say mum was not pleased .When dad came in from work he dried the connie out as best he could he then put it in the airing cupboard for a couple of weeks .It was fine and is still going to this day