Singer Lazer Storm

[blackheart]

Does anyone else remember these? I remember seeing the ad on TV YEARS ago and them doing a bunch of absurd students, like a ping pong ball in a clear PVC tube vs a Kirby G3. Pulling a Fridge with something that resembled dryer hose, and lifting a large fridge/freezer with a suction cup.

I was fortunate enough to find a NOS model on ebay recently, and of course I just had to test it and see how it does. It's a very interesting setup. It powers the turbo head by channeling the exhaust air into a turbine rather than using the intake air. It's brush is soft and runs pretty slowly at about 630 rpm. Still this machine for it's size did have decent power, certainly not enough to really replace a full sized vacuum, unlike what the ad likes to show us/

 

[panasonicvac]

I think I remember that ad. But I always thought it was called the Smart Space Power Vac.

 

[blackheart]

I have never seen it under that name until now. Oreck seems to have re-used the design for a cordless vacuum, but unlike the corded models the head on those is electric vs the exhaust air turbine on these.

 

[panasonicvac]

They did indeed. And it's funny now they've compared it to an actual Oreck in that informercial. I'd gladly take the XL21 over it. Even I'd also take that Hoover Breathe Easy and Kirby G3 over it as well.

 

[blackheart]

oh definitely. Just about everything they compared it to is better....except for that stick shark thing.
This was also sold under "Wind Storm"