superj
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What was the strangest thing you found stuck in a modern vacuum
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bvac6
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Strangest thing..
When I worked maintenance at a Holiday Inn, they had a fleet of a dozen sanitaires of varying age and models. I kept them all in great running order and the last time I checked they still have most of them. Anyway, I have removed the following from a lot of vacs (not just those) the nastiest thing was a condom and more often than not the wrappers from such, nail clippers, jacks (the metal toy thingys), book of matches (what was left of it) straws, sugar packets, change, and lastly my absolute favorite a Barbie head. No joke, it was stuck inside a Clarke wide path machine.
When I worked maintenance at a Holiday Inn, they had a fleet of a dozen sanitaires of varying age and models. I kept them all in great running order and the last time I checked they still have most of them. Anyway, I have removed the following from a lot of vacs (not just those) the nastiest thing was a condom and more often than not the wrappers from such, nail clippers, jacks (the metal toy thingys), book of matches (what was left of it) straws, sugar packets, change, and lastly my absolute favorite a Barbie head. No joke, it was stuck inside a Clarke wide path machine.
kirbykid
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lol
sbakerde
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I so got this one
A few years ago I removed a pair of panties from and Oreck. Poor guy came in hollering his vacuum was broken and still under warranty. The look on his face was priceless when I pulled panties out of the intake right in front of him.
A few years ago I removed a pair of panties from and Oreck. Poor guy came in hollering his vacuum was broken and still under warranty. The look on his face was priceless when I pulled panties out of the intake right in front of him.
mr_mom
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i have a neighbor who is very rough on vacuums they went threw a oreck in three months so she went out and got a hoover empower and she had it for six years and she was useing the house and she sucked up her sons hampster and he was a skinny little thing and he went in and i got called up to see what was wrong with it she always called me up to fix it and the little guy got stuck at the end of hose before going up in the chamber so now shes on a dyson i wonder how long that one will last
See my entry in the other thread about this.Lately,guess folks have been picking up strange things in their vacuums again.
dysondestijl
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Sbakerde: OMG I once found a pair of panties in a Miele too!
strongenough78
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In my friends Dirt Devil, I found a combination of things. After trying to vacuum one night while I was babysitting his daughter, I noticed the motor was revving awfully high, like when you put your hand over the end of the hose sealing off the opening, and nothing was getting picked up. So I cleaned out the filter thinking it was clogged. Put it back together and still no suction. I took off the collection tank and turned it on. It sounded better, less strained and had plenty of suction at the base where the tank sits. So I knew it was working right but something was clogging it. I took off the tube and found the nastiest ball of hair and lint. I grabbed it and pulled to find tangled in the mess a couple of large plastic lids off of the squeezy juice bottles his daughter drinks, a couple of q tips, a large ball of shredded newspaper with more lint and hair and a couple of candy wrappers. I was surprised it gathered anything at all the past 2 weeks as I was the only one vacuuming and it wasn't running like this prior to that day. And I never use a vacuum to pick up such large objects like that. Needless to say after I made sure the rest of the hose was clear as well as the port the hose attached to, since there was more mess in there, the vacuum ran much better.
jodan3399
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A large tube sock, and a smaller spool of thread, the sock in a Hoover Empower, the spool of thread in an Elite. Tons of small legos, change, stuff like that. When I find a clogged Hoover usually it's of substantial stuff I will say that.
Found a beautiful like new bagless Windtunnel once someone literally killed by sucking up what must have been a whole box of powdered laundry detergent.
Best one was an older Panasonic I curbed though, I normally set them outside until I can empty them out and check them over for creepy crawlies. I unloaded it, set it down, and a little field mouse crawled out of the front.. it sat up and literally glared at me, then scurried off into the garden. I don't think he liked the bumpy 2 mile ride in the back of the truck. LOL
Found a beautiful like new bagless Windtunnel once someone literally killed by sucking up what must have been a whole box of powdered laundry detergent.
Best one was an older Panasonic I curbed though, I normally set them outside until I can empty them out and check them over for creepy crawlies. I unloaded it, set it down, and a little field mouse crawled out of the front.. it sat up and literally glared at me, then scurried off into the garden. I don't think he liked the bumpy 2 mile ride in the back of the truck. LOL
New vac pickups-Mouse in a Saintaire,Hamburger in a Carpet Pro-both came from restuarants.The poor mouse was chopped in half---part in the bag-other part in the fancase.Kirby G4 added to my collection trade in towards a TriStar-clog in its MiniEmptor caused by debris catching on a long dead baby snake!The snake was quite intact was not chopped up by the fan or roller brush.Could it have crawled in there when the vac wasn't on?
fan-of-fans
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I got a Kenmore Progressive Direct Drive bagged from Habitat. I knew when I tried it there it was clogged because it was really loud and the performance light was on. Yet it had a brand new bag in it.
Turned out someone had sucked up a cigarette pen and it caused the hose to be clogged all the way down to the intake. There was also a dryer sheet stuck inside the brush roll over the intake. Plus little toys and bits of crayon along with other small items in the hose.
Fortunately the machine was in like new condition otherwise and didn't stink or anything. That hose was really clogged badly though. Every time I thought it was clear, more stuff kept falling out.
Turned out someone had sucked up a cigarette pen and it caused the hose to be clogged all the way down to the intake. There was also a dryer sheet stuck inside the brush roll over the intake. Plus little toys and bits of crayon along with other small items in the hose.
Fortunately the machine was in like new condition otherwise and didn't stink or anything. That hose was really clogged badly though. Every time I thought it was clear, more stuff kept falling out.
kirboover
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How About This One
I once pulled a $20 bill out of a strip club vacuum. It was stuck in the fan, surprisingly not torn up.
I once pulled a $20 bill out of a strip club vacuum. It was stuck in the fan, surprisingly not torn up.
madman
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@kirboover - LUCKY! That's like the equivalent of finding drug money in a car - which I sadly never have.
For me, I haven't seen many unusual things. A big handful of hairpins would be about the strangest thing. Other than that, just massive dustbunnies.
For me, I haven't seen many unusual things. A big handful of hairpins would be about the strangest thing. Other than that, just massive dustbunnies.
electroluxxxx
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I have had a mouse skeleton lodged in the power head of an E-series Rainbow along with a condom in a D4 (shoebox) PN, a tampon in the hose of an E2 gold with a hair pin holding it back. It goes on and on.
human
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I vacuumed up quite a few roaches (not the insectoid variety) out of the ashtrays of cars when I worked at a car wash in high school, but they never got stuck in the nozzle. I picked up a Kirby Gsix at a thrift shop a few years ago that had a AA battery wedged up in the floor nozzle, effectively immobilizing the brush roll. I'm pretty sure that was what got it donated. I recently vacuumed up a tissue with my Kirby Legend II and it got wrapped around the belt shaft and caught fire from the friction. It smoked up my bedroom a bit but didn't do any damage.
fan-of-fans
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Tissue Fire
Good thing you were using an all metal machine! If it had been a plastic one it would have likely caught the whole vacuum on fire, or at least melted it.
Good thing you were using an all metal machine! If it had been a plastic one it would have likely caught the whole vacuum on fire, or at least melted it.
ridgidwd0670
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I found a mouse stuck inside a Rainbow D4 4 quart water basin that I serviced for a customer. No wonder why the vac smelled like mice!
Then I found a TriStar A101 (MG1) with the bag full all the way to the hose handle. The PN had its brush roller fully wrapped with hair & carpet fiber strands, which caused the motor overload button to reset. It didn't have any other accessories; just the hose, wands & PN
The next find was a Shop Vac 6 gallon vac that had dirty water still inside the vac drum. It smelled like a septic tank!
Then I had a Electrolux Epic 6000 that had its hose (genuine newer style coiled vinyl PVC) clogged with toothpics & a Vis-A-Vis marker. It had all accessories including the SideKick 1 (both the 1692 PN & SideKick brush rollers had jammed bearings & wrapped with hair & a 'rag style' throw rug on the 1692 PN
Next came a Hoover Elite (Soft & Light) full of rocks; the fan was split in half
Then I found a TriStar A101 (MG1) with the bag full all the way to the hose handle. The PN had its brush roller fully wrapped with hair & carpet fiber strands, which caused the motor overload button to reset. It didn't have any other accessories; just the hose, wands & PN
The next find was a Shop Vac 6 gallon vac that had dirty water still inside the vac drum. It smelled like a septic tank!
Then I had a Electrolux Epic 6000 that had its hose (genuine newer style coiled vinyl PVC) clogged with toothpics & a Vis-A-Vis marker. It had all accessories including the SideKick 1 (both the 1692 PN & SideKick brush rollers had jammed bearings & wrapped with hair & a 'rag style' throw rug on the 1692 PN
Next came a Hoover Elite (Soft & Light) full of rocks; the fan was split in half
ultralux88
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A small size bottle of cherry flavored personal lube. Was caught in the elbow on the back of a non self propelled Hoover WT, right where the hose attaches and then it makes a sharp bend into the bag. I’ve found disgusting things, like used feminine product applicators (ONLY THE APPLICATOR TUBE) or sometimes even a tampon still in the wrapper, which isn’t nasty really. Found food goop, and then all the usual large debris we all have pulled out of a vacuum. But when you work in the business, you literally do see it all!!
