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Ryan

Yes, I agree there are some differences amongst the three uprights, but their designs are close enough to tell they are produced by the same company, with design changes to suit each company's requests for that brand. I suspect all of these vacuums are produced by Kingclean in China, it seems that's the company Euro-Pro sources to mainly these days.

Rob
 
Electrolux Oxygen 


 


I wonder if it is the voltage difference, These machine were available 8 or so years ag in SA , I still have customer buying bags for them as they run so well. We have had a few in, mainly for damaged cords and service, Never seen one with a Blown motor. We are one of the main Electrolux service centres IN our City. I have two , one was our downstairs vacuum for a few years and is now used in our shop. 


One other major difference was that the SA versions like most canisters here did not have the massive PN you guys have, we did have a PN but its small and easy to use. 
 
The worst vac ever sold over here in the UK has to be the Hoover "The One" made a few years back, they usually overheated and failed very quickly and the filtration was terrible, always blocking and losing suction. A very very poor vacuum indeed.

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In terms of the canister vacs, its a Hoover again - used one a while back of my grans, it was terrible, needed the filter cleaning after every room. dreadful, cheap plastic hoover that was a complete waste of money and effort.
The Hoover Alyx:

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The blown Oxygen motors I have seen from the ones brought into the former Vacuum Cleaner Hospital looked like they were overrevved-fans fly apart in the motors fancase.Happened several times.
 
For me

It would be the Fantom Fury!

I hope I don't upset anyone by saying that. I hated that thing with a purple pink passion. Why? Because the dust cup didn't fit very tightly at all and when you would vacuum, dust collected on the outside of the vacuum itself. There would be visible dust; enough so that I would need to clean the entire outside of the vacuum after using it! And I hated emptying it and I remember it being such a mess. This is WHY I have never owned a bagless vacuum again since 1999. I'm bagless has improved dramatically since then. I just can't get those years of owning it and hating it out of my mind so I can't bring myself to ever get another bagless vacuum (other than Rainbow).
 
while doing some cleaning this evening I thought about this thread, I would say the worst vacuum I have bought is one that I actually like. The Lux 1g 


 


It is the worst vacuum I have spent so much money on, It has a hose that is to big to stiff and to short to use properly, The hose handle does not have controls for the PN and if you want to upplug the PN to do some normal vacuuming you have o pull apart two dangling lead plugs. 


 


I did however replace te hose with a smaller diameter one that is longer and more modern and much easier to use. since then I love using it.


 


This pic is pre modification 

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On he 120V Oxygen motors-could not tell-no name on the blown motors-in one the motor was almost completly destroyed.Literally like an airplane engine run on a test stand until it blew!Bill the vac shop operator at that time gave up trying to fix those machines and told customers to get a refund instead.The destroyed motor was found that way in the vacuum-Bill had to remove the peices of it.Put them in a plastic bag and sent it to Electrolux.Don't know what the result was-and sadly Bill died.His vac shop long closed-spent many hours there with Bill-was fun!the present Greenville Sew&Vac doesn't like working on those Oxygen type machines,either.He is not a warrantee station for them.The blown motors would have been about 5 years ago.
 
Well, the Fantom Fury is not that bad of a bagless vacuum, plus it's made in Canada. The Windtunnel Twin Chamber, well it's the filter that clogs.
 
I nominate the Hoover Dial A Matic Power Drive. My mother bought one in 1972, and it was the WORST vacuum ive ever used. Before or since.
The suction was PITYFUL on the one side of the brush roll that HAS suction,,,the other side, NO suction whatsoever. So, you get NO vacuum at the baseboard on the one side,,and barely any on the other.
The tool suction, even on HIGH was again pityful,,would barely even pick up a feather.
The bag was very hard to change,,you ended up with dirt and dust falling out everywhere, unless you layed the entire machine down on its front, just to change the bag(who is going to do that?)and the "filtration" was VERY POOR. That machine spewed dust out of the exhaust like a freight train.
The entire machine was clunky, clumsy to use, and awkward,,,and also VERY heavy to lift.
Try cleaning a long, large carpeted stairway with one sometime. ROTSA RUCK!

Yes, the "Power Drive" did help in pushing pulling the beast, BUT, it was jerky, and awkward.
Very poor grooming of the carpet,,the brush roll did NOT deep clean, or DIG into the carpet at all. The machine was also noisy. There was no way to adjsut the brush roll. It was supposed to be "Automatically" adjusted to your carpet. HA!
Hope you dont have DEEP SHAG,,or DEEP PILE.

Ive always been under the impression that the regular, NON Power Drive Dial A Matic Hoovers were slightly better.

The WORST part about those vacs is only having suction on ONE side of the brush roll. And, pityful suction at that.

IF you wanna kill your back,, push and blow the dirt around your house,without actually picking UP any dirt or dust,,,get a Dial A Matic!

Lilly Munster would be so pleased!
 
Back in the eighties I had an absolutely gawdawful Eureka plastic canister vacuum. Every time you turned it on, it smelled like wet dog, which was interesting, since I didn't own a dog at the time. The disposable bag had to be slid onto a small metal framework at the front of the vacuum where the hose came out, and you never could get bags that would easily slide into the bag holder for it, despite buying the bags labeled for that model. Suction was minimal: It was one of those backbreakers where you ended up stuffing dust bunnies into the floor nozzle to get the thing to pick them up! I wish I could remember the model name, but it was a shade of light faux metallic green body. There was always something more pressing to spend my money on at the time than a replacement vacuum, so it only got replaced when I plugged it in one day and a spark and flame shot out of the attached cord. And yeah, I think I got it at a warehouse store. Horrible work of Satan!
 
The worst

That awful Hoover bagless Tempo . Used one at someones house and the owners did not take care of at all .when i went to turn it on ,it blew black dust out yuck ! And was clogged . I like bagless vacuums but not that one .
 
i put forward......

the argos value range vacuums, or the bush vacuums in argos. i had the cylinder and upright bagless ones, and the upright was noisy, clumsy and hard to push. the cylinder was fragile, handle snapped, filter leaked, and cord rewind didn't work! i learned to avoid any cheap vacuum!!!! electrolux gazelles (similar to the eureka maxima)arent the best either!
thedysonman
 
my worst vac...

Back when I lived in an apartment and didn't have room to collect vacuums, I had a purple Dirt Devil bagged Swivel Glide. Absolutely the worst vacuum I have ever used. It was incredibly loud, the swivel casters were more of an annoyance than a help, it used VERY small bags, the cord was in a stupid location, and the brushroll was so close to the front bumper that it literally spewed dust onto the outside of the vacuum. The biggest issue, however, was that it clogged CONSTANTLY. Even with a brand new bag, within a few uses the hose inlet to the bag and the inlet at the brushroll would clog, requiring COMPLETE disassembly of the machine. I then had to take a coat hanger and dig it all out! Disgusting! I had to do that numerous times. I ended up taking it to my parents' house and swapping it with my Dirt Devil roommate. It's sad that the roommate did a better job than the full-size upright.
 
Worst Vacuum

Not sure if I have to mention any names here. But I would say any Vac that's on the low end. Like all the Garbage that the ~Box stores~ sell, for say $39.95 to say whatever, Gimmick Vacuums etc......etc......
 
Well this vacuum wasn't real bad, but of all the vacuums I've used this one was my least favorite. It was a Dirt Devil Vision. When I was babysitting my friends daughter, I would also help out around the house, dishes, vacuuming etc. And his vacuum seemed to always have trouble picking things up. He told me that the filter usually needs to be cleaned out after a few uses. Well, it seemed like I would have to clean it before, during and after I was cleaning. And then I discovered the brushroll belt needed to be replaced, it was stretched out pretty bad and even had a spot where it was worn down from sliding around the motor pulley. So I did him a favor and bought 2 new belts. At $2.99 I wasn't complaining about the cost but he did pay me back. I vacuumed before and after replacing the belt and noticed a huge difference. It picked up a huge amount of dirt that was still in the carpet. However the filter clogged that much faster. But I vacuumed that carpet until the only thing I would pick up was carpet fibers. I'd take out the filter and bang the pleated filter on a pole until no more dirt came out and used my Kirby a couple of times for the sponge filter. I lived just a few apartments down. But under the pleated cartridge was a mesh screen, and that too would get jammed up with dirt and dust. I must say though that after the filters were cleaned out, it did work very well. The suction was strong it just didn't last very long. I told him he needs to just buy a new cartridge cause it's probably getting clogged with the microscopic dust. He finally did but I never used it again since he moved in with his girlfriend. It's a good vacuum, but it needs a better filtering system.
 
Well, mine is the purple Kenmore Progressive bagless upright. My parents bought it in 2009. I hated that thing, filter was clogging too much and it was expensive. The machine was also prone to clogging, and it had the filters changed twice. By the time they got changed yet again, the machine sounded worse.

I'm never buying Kenmore again, and I'm better sticking to bagged vacuums. I do like my Powerforce, it took over my Windtunnel as the main vacuum when its bag door latches broke off.
 
HI i am Danny from Hamilton ontario the most Contorvesial punky Scadolles.
Mailwhere and icky vacuumcleaner is the fantom furry limeted upright.
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So, this is my first time posting here, but I came across this, and I just wanted to say that the two most deplorable vacuum cleaners I've ever had 1 was a Eureka Canister bought at a big box store, and the second was a Bissell bagless canister that died last week.
 
Bissell ProHeat has poor suction & pump gives up.

Next is a XXX Duo Power, it has not 1 but 2 dirt containers; the larger one collects coarse dirt & the smaller one (where the mesh screen & pleated filter are) collects the small stuff, clogging the filter pores quickly. The large container is in front; & the smaller one in the rear.

You have to remove the large one at the front; but at least the smaller one can be removed seperately (from the rear)
 

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