Vacuums you find or found to be scary?

[thevacomaticiec]

Shop vac whit blower port due to not hearing well aftheri got my hearing aids and tubes in my ears i could soo well i wasscared of it was super loud to me .
You see , i was almost deaf in my left ear so the loud vacuu mscared the day lights out of me now its okay but bein 5 years old hearing that motor id ran.(first time hearing such a loud machine i was unsure .)

 

[anthony]

Goblin vacuum

As A child i was terrified of my grandparents Goblin upright vac [no idea of the model] .It was a powder blue colour with a cream body and handle .the bag was a huge blue thing with a red goblin on it grinning [absolutely terrifying to a small child seeing this red goblin coming towards you] .The machine also had a blue handle grip that always reminded me of a budgie

 

[jo]

Water heater, oil burner furnace, and our Electrolux model S

I feared the water heater in our basement and did not like being the last one to come up the basement stairs and surely NEVER would want to be down there with the light off.

My Grandmother had a huge giant green oil burning steam furnace and it scared the heck out of me. It was quite something compared to furnaces of today. It was replaced in the mid 70s with a small gas furnace that was all clean and nice and I was SO happy now to be in her basement.

We had an Electrolux model S and the switch started sparking and giving my Mother trouble...I was just a toddler, it was sure scary to have that sparking and flickering on and off while Mom was vacuuming before they got the switch replaced.

We had a Regina Electrikbroom and you could see in through the air vents where the motor was the sparks coming from the motor brushes. I did not like that either, scary.

I was taught to be scared of my Grandmother’s wringer attachment on the wringer washer that it would crush ones fingers so I generally stayed away from it but I was never frightened of it and I used to watch her use it from a distance without fear.

Jon

 

[kirby519]

@fan-of-fans

I wouldn't let taking in a vacuum to do tasks that the cleaning person isn't assigned to do stop me.

I took my Kirby with attachments to work with me on Sunday a few times when I worked in the cargo office for Midwest Express. Sundays were quite days. Coming from a cleaning service the office wasn't cleaned to my level of satisfaction by the company contracted to do it, or there were areas they were not contracted to do.

One night I worked the second sift and had the cleaner actually vacuum under the counter in the tracking office. He wasn't to thrilled about it but did it. One of my coworkers wanted to have a fit about it. To which I told him to back off I can hear the phone and access any information I needed from another computer. Second shift didn't seem to care how many potato chip crumbs or anything else piled up under the computer desk. The rest of us couldn't figure out why it never got vacuumed under until I was there that night.

 

[real1shep]

Rexair......

an adult took it off the tub while the motor was still spinning. I could see something spinning inside the metal screen housing. They looked like razors to my young eyes. I had visions of losing my fingers in there as a small boy.

Kevin

 

[air-waycharlie]

An interesting twist on this----I was never scared of my mother's vacuums which included Hoover, Electrolux and Kirby in my youth, I was scared of my mother.

 

[gottahaveahoove]

I can say.........................

childhood wasn't always sunshine, lollipops, etc. But, I loved my parents, and they loved my sister and me. There was never any fear of them, only respect. When they both died gruesome deaths, 17 years apart,in front of me, it was a great loss; a void that will never be filled.
But, I STILL have a model 28, the one that scared me as a child. Thankfully, very little scares me anymore.

 

[mikanic]

Oh my goodness!

I find vintage numatics with the faces messed up a bit scary, because yeah, can't describe it, just doesn't look to good. Whether there's no mouth, or one of the eyes are diagonal and so on. I also find the big Charles, the cream and brown one, a bit scary as well because the face is INSANELY creepy. When you combine a creepy Numatic with a motor in bad condition, it makes a nightmare, like for instance the numatic Charles and nv250 (I think) on videos by UltimateVacMan (I mean absolutely no offence to him, it's the cleaners).

I was scared of other vacuums as a kid, and thought of it still gets to me now, but they're not the correct types of cleaners to talk of on this thread because they aren't vintage enough XD



Going on a slight different topic, I'm disturbed by old vacuum cleaner commercials when the colour levels are low and the video is blurry. Like that of the Heike Makatsch commercial that featured a vacuum cleaner that looked TERRIFYING, had no floor nozzle, must have had a twin motor and made DISTURBING unpleasant suction sounds. This tells me how scared I could still be of unpleasant suction sounds like when I was a kid...