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ah, that is really enlightening


I agree, I would never trust these PC boards. No Miele will ever enter my home unless for a quick resale. (Not a Miele fan anyway, but that is another long story not to be displayed in this very thread).


But these plastic caps being "hard to pull off" - that must be a hooey. These screw-on caps came off just like this, I could use my pinky on that.


No matter what: There are 3 points I was worried about:

1. Electrical "ends" having the opportunity to flop around randomly (which is given with yellow caps but not with a screwed-down or riveted-down block connector that cannot move away from its position)

2. stranded wires (no entering block connectors here without proper bundling of the copper strands, be it by some "Aderendhülsen" (as called here, some small metal tubes that you permanently clamp down on those wire fibres) or be it by some proper soldering (which is no longer allowed here, but which would be fine for me)

3. these dreadful round black plastic grommets to keep the cable from being pulled out, I simply do not trust them being able to substitute a good and substantial "cable hose clamp" screwed down to the housing (they are just a little bar screwed down with 2 screws just like a mini vice).


I must add that in the very unit I am talking about, the yellow caps could swing freely, there weren't even small hooks to hold down the individual wires. This worried me a lot. The vac was in average condition, not good, not bad. It just didn't feel right.

I somehow felt I was supposed to trust my life to the woes of these caps of felt point pens (and that hasn't changed despite your very precise explanation).


Have seen the clamp-downs, they looked ok to me. Seen the connector-blocks, same. But having seen these?

God, this Eureka would rattle if you shook it! That is NOT normal to me, very sorry.


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