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I DO have one - and yeah, it works!


Picked one up at a garage sale just because the idea of a motorized carpet sweeper was interesting to me - as well as the GE "automatic" clothes brush that I also got from this same garage sale. Both items in great condition.  GE must have had some marketing department - taking "manual" items and attaching an electrical cord to it, but I guess that was their racket.


It came with a bag - an SV-1 bag.  So, I took it home and tried it in my foyer, and I was actually surprised at how well it worked.  I've since found bags on eBay, although it took a while before anyone put them up for bid.  The bags are interesting to me as well.  They are designed to be re-useable.  They have an opening on the side where they can be dumped, fold the end over, and clamp it with two flexible tabs.


I had actually forgotten about this carpet sweeper until I was cleaning out a closet this past winter.  The timing was perfect.  Since we had more snow than usual, that meant shoveling and salting.  I was tracking a lot of salt in the house, and this little machine did a fine job of picking it up.


It's pretty good at picking up stuff from the door-mats too.


The brush is soft enough that it is safe on linoleum; and it does an okay-plus job on really low nap rugs (and doormats)as well.


There might have been two different models, as the eBay deal that I had included two bags of SV bags - the SV-1, and an SV-1A (I think) which were longer.


I don't think that I would have run out and bought one when they were originally available, but for two bucks at a garage sale, I'm glad that I picked it up.


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