Forever Vacuum Bags?

[djtaylor]

Pillow case as a bag???

Gary,
That shows just how cheep some people are. I could see using one disposable bag over and over again, but a pillow case? That's just stupid.
When I worked for the local Oreck franchise I was told by one of the managers of a store that we were supposed to re-use the cones in the old Filter Queens in the work shops. So, for the first year that I worked for that company I would carefully remove the cones from the FQs(there were 5 stores owned by the same family) use a natural hair paint brush to dust off as much of the fine dust as I could, then put it back into the dust bin(after the bin had been emptied.). I was getting three uses out of each cone. Then the boss caught me do that, I told him what I was told. He thought that was funny, then told me to NEVER re-use the cones. As cheep as the 'after market' cones were, it was just a waste of my time to re-use them.
LOL
Justin

 

[vac_whisperer]

a cheaper alternative

Tomoorow, im going to try my own forever bag I will buid maybe both of thee:

1: Cut a leg off of an old pair of jeans or sweat pants and sew some paper towl to the inside. Then, instead of a bag slide, fold the top a couple of times and attach a bunch of those black paper clips to it.

Or, a better-filtering solution, which would probably be easier as well:

2: Cut the top of of a redualr paper vac bag. Fold the top a couple times and attach a few of those black paper clips.

Im going to have to doctor a couple of Kirby and oreck bags like this, 'cause those Kirby and Oreck bags ain't cheap.

VW

 

[vac_whisperer]

oops,

sorry for that "tomorrow" typo. ^blush^

VW

 

[twocvbloke]

Beaten you to it on Number 1...

(though I didn't use any paper towels as a lining)

 

[twocvbloke]

And a later revision to the mod, using a Kirby filltube and generic bag:

 

[vac_whisperer]

Thats interesting! How'd you do it? Tomorrow im going to doctor some bags!

VW

 

[twocvbloke]

Well, the bag was made from a trouser leg (my big butt split them!!!), and I just attached it with zip ties in the right place, and the Kirby bag conversion, I just used a normal Hoover Junior bellows thing and just stuck the filltube in there, and secured it with a zip tie, and that was it, easy as pie...

Oh, and I folded down and secured the top of the Kirby bag cos it was a little on the tall side...

 

[dandagreer]

Wow

I was strolling through the archives and read through this thread which inspired a search on reusable Kirby bags. I came across this blogger who came up with her own. Pretty creative I must say!

http://makingdowiththenotsonew.blogspot.com/2009/01/make-your-own-reusable-fabric-vacuum.html