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Hi all, just wanted to see how'd I'd go at starting a thread...

I've seen spread over a few posts in the past, pics and stories of newly acquired cleaners that supposedly 'no longer work'... When really they were just soooo full of gunk it's any wonder they didn't catch on fire!!

Would love to see pics of the horrid mess you've found, for example when the bag is so full the hose starts to fill up... Or the brushroll won't turn because it's so jammed with hair etc.

People make a good mess of decent machines due to poor maintenance and then insist on blaming the machine... Nothig makes me crazier!

Also photos or stories of the interesting things you've found in them?...

Post as many pics as you can folks!

Cheers Steve...
 
well...

I have a couple of stories! When I got my Electrolux olympia one (I got it at a garage sale for $3 !!!) the bag was so full that it was as hard as a basket ball(and they gave me a package of bags with it!)LOL... One time somebody gave me a Eureka Maxima (cheap,plastic,bagless) and they said it "acted wierd" and if i didnt want it it was going in the dumpster... well, I brought it home, plugged it in and it ran, but NO suction at all. the cup was empty but the filter was so clogged you couldnt tell it was pleated... I cleaned it out and it works great now!
 
Gosh Steve, I just this weekend fixed up a year2000 bagged Eureka 4870 for an actor friend with a wife and new baby boy. "it stopped sucking and the brush won't turn".

Simple matter of 4 largish garden rocks blocking the hose and a snapped belt. Geez, you could see two of the rocks inside the clear intake tubes - not an actor to hand a powertool to, I'd say.

The belt is a Fiberglas-reinforced thin flat textured plastic-y band that I hope I can get from Ellisons Vac Shop or at least he'll be able to order one. It rides over a metal tension pulley that one flips off the tension to disengage the brush, leaving the belt slack but resting against the motor shaft. Because at some point this vacuum was near or sat in water, the shaft was caked with rust which ground through the belt at rest. A simple file job with the motor running fixed that.

The large yellow wheel switches full vacuum between either the detachable hose or the brush head, both of which have their own clear plastic removable up tubes to the bag. Clever and easy maintenance...unless one is an actor, I guess. :-)

Actually a darn nice powerful and hushed quiet vacuum - I was pleasantly surprised. Well worth finding bags & belts for.

Dave

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A Filter Queen I bought from a yard sale-the handle neck was full of Christmas Tree needles,same with the hose connector on the machine-and the machine was PACKED with the needles.and to top it off---NO FILTER cone in the machine-the motor filter under the cone guard was caked with dust and pine tree debris.Replaced the filters and vacuumed the macchine out with my NSS M1-then it was fine-the powernozzle was clogged with pineneedles too.
At one vacuum shop out my way-was shown a Kirby G6 that had a bag that was as hard as a rock-still picked up though-the machines owner was ill so she had the kids and grandkids do the vacuuming-fine -but they weren't shown to replace the paper inner Kirby bag.The paper bag was BURST and the cloth bag was stuffed-cleaned it out and replaced the paper bag and it was fine.The vac shop operator even paid me for helping her fix that Kirby.Then there are the vacuums clogged with things we can't mention?
 
bought a eureka plastic handle, bag on the back cheap-o at thrift shop. it was clogged with blue aquarium gravel. vac was blue and white so at least it matched.

cleaned it out, new belt and it does a good job on carpets.
 
Oh the stories I could tell... I have a friend with a late model Kenmore Progressive upright with intelipower.long hose wraps around the back in a circle? Lots of chance for plug there, like monthly!! I tell her, its a vacuum, not a mower! I know her kids are doing the cleaning, hair clip? Check, rubber ball, check, you name it. The fun never ends. David.
 
Just this morning I was at a house in Hinsdale replacing a central vacuum unit -- the nanny was there at the same time using a Dyson DC17 which sounded like it was clogged every time she put the handle upright, but worked fine in the operating position. The Dyson happened to be stored in the same basement closet where the central vacuum was, so once she put it back I took a look -- a pencil and a bunch of carpet fuzz caught in the U-bend. She didn't know anything was wrong with it. Between that and their central vacuum which burned out in three years, I'd say it's a good idea to not let the nanny vacuum any more. Lol
 
I've been searching for two days now for the pictures I took of a burst bag Kirby that arrived with a hard bolus in its belly. I posted the pictures of the emergency 'bag-ectomy' I performed but can't locate that either.

I utilized vintage surgical instruments for the extraction...

Dave
 
Thanks Steve but this is not the one I meant. It was an earlier Kirby post of a found Kirby where I staged the bag opening and cleaning like an autopsy in a series of step-by-step pictures featuring forceps, probes and retractor clamps to hold the bag open while the mess inside was removed and dissected.

I'll keep looking...
 
Note the little orange you see on the brushroll is a price tag for 24.99 from a vac shop. They must have had it serviced the last time it didnt suck.

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The vac works great now. The aftermath. This is what was in the dirt tube and some of what was in the belt chamber. The bag was completly empty. I cant imagine why it woulnd suck anymore?

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