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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Martin_1962 on 12 January 2010, 23:52:56
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They clog up so easily, and need dismantling to clean.
I have done ours - works a LOT better now.
Should I offer the service?
Martin
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No issues with mine, 4 or 5 years old and all I do in empty the container.
(Dysan Animal)
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Might strip it and clean it soon, looks a bit dusty with the lack of use it gets. ::)
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SWMBO has got picture of me stripping our old one somewhere... Bits all over the floor ::) ::) ;D
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Ahh, that'll be because Dyson's such a great
engineer marketeer- like he says in his adverts. :-X
Kevin
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Ahh, that'll be because Dyson's such a great engineer marketeer- like he says in his adverts. :-X
Kevin
That swivel head ball thing, makes it sound like he just invented. Am sure my Gran had a hoover with a twist neck thing the same 40+ years ago, (was probably a hoover at that as well)
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The Dyson at my daughter uni house/squat blocked up easily when they tried to 'hoover' up a tree's worth of pine needles ..... no wonder the roller's drive belt gave up the ghost!!!
They hadn't a clue why it wasn't picking up!!!!! :-? :-? :-? ::) ;D ;D ;D
So much for a uni edumacation!!! :y :y ;D ;)
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I could never understand how Dyson got away with the advert quoting "no bag so no loss of suction" when it was the filters that blocked and they would't suck break all! >:(
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That swivel head ball thing, makes it sound like he just invented. Am sure my Gran had a hoover with a twist neck thing the same 40+ years ago, (was probably a hoover at that as well)
Same with cyclonic separation. He must have invented that too. Never seen one of them before... ;D
Kevin
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I remember him going on about how many hundreds of prototypes he had to make before he hit on a design that works. Great engineering methodology, that. If Brunel had done the same There'd be a trail of bits of bridge and caved-in tunnels between here and Bristol. ;D
Shame he didn't think to look on wikipedia really. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclonic_separation ;D
Kevin
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I remember him going on about how many hundreds of prototypes he had to make before he hit on a design that works. .......
What's wrong with 'cardboard engineering'? ::) ::) ::)
;D ;D ;D ;D
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I find an airline used in its orrifficceesssss clears it out fine with no need to strip it to bits...
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I find an airline used in its orrifficceesssss clears it out fine with no need to strip it to bits...
BA or Easyjet?
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I find an airline used in its orrifficceesssss clears it out fine with no need to strip it to bits...
BA or Easyjet?
;D ;D ;D ;D
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They clog up so easily, and need dismantling to clean.
I have done ours - works a LOT better now.
Should I offer the service?
Martin
Too expensive to post.
Also, lets face it, if people aren't prepared to strip theirs down every few months, they should go and buy a decent vacuum.
I use an airline on my heap of shit Dyson, saves a lot of the stripping, unless she's sucked up some water with it (don't ask, I don't know how she manages to get it wet!)
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Had a Dyson which proved unreliable so junked it and bought a Miele which has proved to be a much superior machine and remains utterly dependable 5 years after purchase. :y
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or get yourself a kirby :y
but you may need too rob a bank to pay for it :(
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The Dyson at my daughter uni house/squat blocked up easily when they tried to 'hoover' up a tree's worth of pine needles ..... no wonder the roller's drive belt gave up the ghost!!!
They hadn't a clue why it wasn't picking up!!!!! :-? :-? :-? ::) ;D ;D ;D
So much for a uni edumacation!!! :y :y ;D ;)
Same thing happened to our Dyson at Uni, usually it would fill up on one room ;D
Belt snapped, easy as pie to strip down and replace it. Also cleared itout at the same time.
Be difficult offering it as a service due to the size & weight of them, you could only do it locally.
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They clog up so easily, and need dismantling to clean.
I have done ours - works a LOT better now.
Should I offer the service?
Martin
what ever blows your skirt up Martin, as for cleaning dysons, i suspect better business on a BMW forum, i'm sure they all have them along with no practical sense what so ever.
Having said that, we have the above mentioned animal cyclone thing which replaced a previos dyson of some sort, light and manouverable for her, she likes it, which is totally fine by me... that Dyson bloke is smarter than you think :y
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or get yourself a kirby :y
but you may need too rob a bank to pay for it :(
I bought one, firking hated it, I know later models improved - but never again in my case.
Was rather impressed with a mates Bosch upright hoover a few years ago, might give them ago if the Dyson ever lets go.
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They clog up so easily, and need dismantling to clean.
I have done ours - works a LOT better now.
Should I offer the service?
Martin
what ever blows your skirt up Martin, as for cleaning dysons, i suspect better business on a BMW forum, i'm sure they all have them along with no practical sense what so ever.
Having said that, we have the above mentioned animal cyclone thing which replaced a previos dyson of some sort, light and manouverable for her, she likes it, which is totally fine by me... that Dyson bloke is smarter than you think :y
Yes, he probably aimed the design more at us makes rather than the females. or at least the early advertising.
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The Dyson at my daughter uni house/squat blocked up easily when they tried to 'hoover' up a tree's worth of pine needles ..... no wonder the roller's drive belt gave up the ghost!!!
They hadn't a clue why it wasn't picking up!!!!! :-? :-? :-? ::) ;D ;D ;D
So much for a uni edumacation!!! :y :y ;D ;)
Tell me about it. I had a call from the students renting my place in Liverpool, they were complaing that the vacuum didnt work. I was very suprised that they even used it but I drove over to liverpool (70 mile round trip) just to find it needed emptying >:(
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I'm tempted to get a Tescos special electrolux special for £30 (almost same cost as an unreliable hose on a dyson), if it breaks in first year, warranty, if it breaks after, landfill, and buy another
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Dyson was that the company that took all of it's production overseas, closed the operation in the UK, made em redundant :'(
Stuff them :y
We have an Oreck, only thing we have had to replace in ten years has been the brush bar and about 3 belts.
Mick ;)
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I had many hoovers over the years, but then when Dyson came along I found it was the end of having useless machines.
Never looked back and have remained using Dyson, with little maintenance involved. Great machines!! :y :y
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Dyson was that the company that took all of it's production overseas, closed the operation in the UK, made em redundant :'(
Stuff them :y
We have an Oreck, only thing we have had to replace in ten years has been the brush bar and about 3 belts.
Mick ;)
Plus put up the price of the machines as well.
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Mrs Albs had a Dyson for a few years . said it was utter crap.Now has a Sebo, apparently its brilliant.Not all multicoloured and funky looking but does actually suck up the dirt. ;)
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Dyson was that the company that took all of it's production overseas, closed the operation in the UK, made em redundant :'(
Stuff them :y
We have an Oreck, only thing we have had to replace in ten years has been the brush bar and about 3 belts.
Mick ;)
DYSON is in fact the company that had £4m in grants off the Welsh Assembly and as soon as his company took of he closed the factory made 300 people redundant with very little severance wages and moved the entire shaboom to Poland, which is exactly what Cadbury are doing right now with the old Fry's factory, but cannot understand why Poland, all peoples of working age from Poland are over here. so how they goona get staff is beyond me, prehaps with a little luck all the poles here will move back and we can all get a decent job.
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which is exactly what Cadbury are doing right now with the old Fry's factory .......
and what they did with Hall's Mentholyptus cough sweets >:( >:( They closed the door on over a hundred years of production in the area and a bloody good job! >:(
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which is exactly what Cadbury are doing right now with the old Fry's factory .......
and what they did with Hall's Mentholyptus cough sweets >:( >:( They closed the door on over a hundred years of production in the area and a bloody good job! >:(
HP sauce is another one.
Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't that transfer to Holland.
Long standing brands like Cadburys (or Cadburys Schweppes now) are in the process of being bought by Kraft, and they want tosell the schweppes bit.
Mick
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HP sauce is another one.
Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't that transfer to Holland.
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I think that was Heinz's tomato ketchup going from Wigan Kitt Green to Holland. Those jobs weren't lost though and the workers just moved elsewhere within the factory ..... where I now work! :y :y :y
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I'm tempted to get a Tescos special electrolux special for £30 (almost same cost as an unreliable hose on a dyson), if it breaks in first year, warranty, if it breaks after, landfill, and buy another
she tried that idea but with a vax, useless rather thing. too heavy even for me, and stop pushing it around or use the atachments and the belt burns out in 5 secs flat, although no idea re elrctrolux personally the Mrs says people at work say it cant pull the skin off a pudding compared to a dyson.
Seems basic to me, if dyson stops sucking its bunged up, her long hair usually, and the transparent parts help to locate the bungage/filter/full up container etc, although the inards look mucky after a while. They are over priced but ime they do work, and parts are available ie if it "falls" down the stairs for instance.
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I bought a vaccum once
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HP sauce is another one.
Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't that transfer to Holland.
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I think that was Heinz's tomato ketchup going from Wigan Kitt Green to Holland. Those jobs weren't lost though and the workers just moved elsewhere within the factory ..... where I now work! :y :y :y
The factory where it was produced in Aston, Birmingham closed down because the production was moved to Holland. Job losses resulted, apparently.
Mick
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I'm tempted to get a Tescos special electrolux special for £30 (almost same cost as an unreliable hose on a dyson), if it breaks in first year, warranty, if it breaks after, landfill, and buy another
You're not a WEEE man then?
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I bought a vaccum once
Better off with a vacuum though ................ ::) ::) ::)
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This thread "sucks" unlike a Dyson ::)
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Not this one.... ::)
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Dyson was that the company that took all of it's production overseas, closed the operation in the UK, made em redundant :'(
Stuff them :y
We have an Oreck, only thing we have had to replace in ten years has been the brush bar and about 3 belts.
Mick ;)
DYSON is in fact the company that had £4m in grants off the Welsh Assembly and as soon as his company took of he closed the factory made 300 people redundant with very little severance wages and moved the entire shaboom to Poland, which is exactly what Cadbury are doing right now with the old Fry's factory, but cannot understand why Poland, all peoples of working age from Poland are over here. so how they goona get staff is beyond me, prehaps with a little luck all the poles here will move back and we can all get a decent job.
Errr, its not as cut and dry as all that. They wanted to expand their manufacturing in Wiltshire, but local do-gooders blocked it. Then were up in arms when it was announced production was shifting overseas (far east I thought?). The stupid 'not in my back yard' do-gooders can't have it both ways. Idiots.
As it happens, Dyson employ more people in Wiltshire now (admin, r&d, etc) than before they moved production away, as they can fit more people into old site
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I'm tempted to get a Tescos special electrolux special for £30 (almost same cost as an unreliable hose on a dyson), if it breaks in first year, warranty, if it breaks after, landfill, and buy another
You're not a WEEE man then?
Have enough of that shite at work - due to office move, arranged for some old kit to be disposed, and arranged area in office to store it until collected by recyclers. The area is now a free-for-all for the entire site, and muggins has to sort it >:(. I now have an 18m2 area, piled about chest height, to sort and arrange collection.
Some of the stuff is a criminal waste - perfectly servicable desktops and laptops (mostly later p4s, but better than what a lot of people in the building are using), LCDs, working mobiles (mostly basic, but not that old), printers, scanners, all-in-ones, unused ink/toner etc.
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I had many hoovers over the years, but then when Dyson came along I found it was the end of having useless machines.
Never looked back and have remained using Dyson, with little maintenance involved. Great machines!! :y :y
I hate ours. The hoses last about a year (£20), the mains cords about 18m (£12), the handle frequently replaced (the machine has a fundamental design flaw), and it clogs easily.
Oh, and my old vac won the fight with the vegetable rack, unlike the dyson, though that may count as abuse....
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I'm tempted to get a Tescos special electrolux special for £30 (almost same cost as an unreliable hose on a dyson), if it breaks in first year, warranty, if it breaks after, landfill, and buy another
You're not a WEEE man then?
Have enough of that shite at work - due to office move, arranged for some old kit to be disposed, and arranged area in office to store it until collected by recyclers. The area is now a free-for-all for the entire site, and muggins has to sort it >:(. I now have an 18m2 area, piled about chest height, to sort and arrange collection.
Some of the stuff is a criminal waste - perfectly servicable desktops and laptops (mostly later p4s, but better than what a lot of people in the building are using), LCDs, working mobiles (mostly basic, but not that old), printers, scanners, all-in-ones, unused ink/toner etc.
Ebay time then :y
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I'm tempted to get a Tescos special electrolux special for £30 (almost same cost as an unreliable hose on a dyson), if it breaks in first year, warranty, if it breaks after, landfill, and buy another
You're not a WEEE man then?
Have enough of that shite at work - due to office move, arranged for some old kit to be disposed, and arranged area in office to store it until collected by recyclers. The area is now a free-for-all for the entire site, and muggins has to sort it >:(. I now have an 18m2 area, piled about chest height, to sort and arrange collection.
Some of the stuff is a criminal waste - perfectly servicable desktops and laptops (mostly later p4s, but better than what a lot of people in the building are using), LCDs, working mobiles (mostly basic, but not that old), printers, scanners, all-in-ones, unused ink/toner etc.
Ebay time then :y
Err, thats stealing. Not my stuff to sell.
I have raided some ram for my desktop (works one) though :-[
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I hate ours. The hoses last about a year (£20), the mains cords about 18m (£12), the handle frequently replaced (the machine has a fundamental design flaw), and it clogs easily.
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You must be using it wrong! ;) ;) Our's has been fine for the last 3 or 4 yrs. :y :y :y
I agree that they're not the most substantial of machine though.
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I hate ours. The hoses last about a year (£20), the mains cords about 18m (£12), the handle frequently replaced (the machine has a fundamental design flaw), and it clogs easily.
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You must be using it wrong! ;) ;) Our's has been fine for the last 3 or 4 yrs. :y :y :y
I agree that they're not the most substantial of machine though.
ours it probably about 12yrs old. The replacement parts (even genuine) are poor
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Triggers broom/TB,s Dyson. :D ::)
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Triggers broom/TB,s Dyson. :D ::)
trying to think if anything is original...
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On a Dyson that old,very much doubt it. ;)
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I bought a DC01 around 16 years ago & that lasted me 12 years, before the motor packed in.
Have a DC03 now & it's very good, but when this packs up i won't buy another. I'm sick of giving my money to peolpe with narrow eyes.
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On our second Dyson - more sensible colours this time!
I have just stripped and washed the main parts but the beater doesn't pick up at present so may need to replace beater.
Accessiblity for un-blocking is excellent.
Bought a cheap Electrolux (£70) for my mum and it is extremely noisy and sucks very little up.