Who needs Which?

They eat a hell of a lot of juice though, that's why I only use mine for the occassional State visit, innit.

Fritz Von Avin a J Edgar

Tony
Good choice. Interesting storey: my brother-in-law is a copper who a few years ago was looking into a fraud on a trading estate in London. He investigated all the premises and one of them was a repairer of vacuum cleaners. The whole room was full of Electrolux, Panasonic and Dyson machines.
He asked about the machines around the room:

The comment from one of the service blokes was “if everyone bought Sebo’s we’d go bust”

Martin

My wife has just shown me the spare bags we bought for it. Hey, they come with their own little plastic sealing caps!

Tony

Tony

My parents use a Sebo cylinder machine which I found to be hopeless and far too noisy. However I understand the Sebo uprights are great - perhaps that what you have?

In my opinion the dogs b@**ocks of cylinder hoovers are made by Miele.

Used one for nearly 10 years and it still works like a dream.

Dyson, to my mind, is 10% interesting design wrapped up in 90% marketing and hype - bit like Bose.

D

Our Sebo is a cylinder type, and is, to us, pretty quiet.
We looked at Miele, but came to the conclusion they have gone the same way as some other great makes: Name bought, quality reduced, profits increased short term, assets stripped. Shame, as some relatives have had their's for a very long time.


Tony

Don't you just love the adverts where a salesman comes to the house and empties a truckload of rubbish all over the carpet and proceeds to remove it as though with a magic wand.
Similarly the wipe across the totally begrimed oven top.
But best is the advert for razors where the one smooth stroke down the cheek removes all the stubble and leaves a billiard ball appearance. How do they do it? I've been trying for fifty years.

I once owned a (?) Polish vacuum cleaner when I lived in Dublin. It came with attachments for which I never found a use. There was one for spray painting but most of the rest seemed designed for furniture unavailable.

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But best is the advert for razors where the one smooth stroke down the cheek removes all the stubble and leaves a billiard ball appearance. How do they do it? I've been trying for fifty years.

As a kid watching those adverts I figured out that as thick foam was used the area in question is concealed so the featured cheek was most likely smooth and shaven before the footage was shot.

(When I was a little older I wondered (for a few minutes) why the liquid used in sanitary pad adverts was always blue. Then I figured that any other colour - green, yellow, brown, black - or red - was probably not suitable...)

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There was one for spray painting

I think you're having us on Adam.

My Dyson sucks.

John.

John,
Late 1950's, early 1960's Electrolux cylinder models[ you could have any colour you liked as long as it was red] had a Paint spraying attachment,it was a low air pressure spray that attached to the hose on the exhaust air[blow] end of the m/c when used with a bit of practice the results were not to bad. I remember my Father useing ours to respray his old Ford "Pop"
oldie.

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There was one for spray painting

I think you're having us on Adam.

My Dyson sucks.

John.

I remember we had an old electrolux cylinder with a paintspray attachment. (Obviously you had to stick the pipe in the correct end of the cleaner.) We never actually used it of course. This was in the days when most cleaners were built to last for about 100 years or so.

My folks bought a Seimens vacuum (off a door-to-door salesman!!!) in 1961. In 1995 in our student house, it was still going strong. All that had been done was a rewire job - even the original hose was still good. And this after at MINIMUM 3 house vacs a week (obviously at my parents' house - we did it about once a season in the student house!!).

I wish I'd taken it when we moved out - they'd "upgraded" to an Electro-sux and promptly regretted it. My brother now has that (it's pretty well shagged!) and they have a Goblin.

Personally, so long as the thing sucks without doing a Vyv from the "Young ones" ("That cleaner's destroyed a small section of the floor!" "CLEANED it Michael! CLEANED it!" "We quibble over terms - suffice to say, that cleaner's one sucker, and I don't mean it's easily fooled!"), any hoover's fine with me. My (s)Hitachi has been going for 8 years, with no problems. Not bad for £60.

Are Dysons really all they're cracked up to be?

One final word on the subject - a rather excellent joke:

A little old lady answered a knock on the door one day, only to be confronted by a well-dressed young man carrying a vacuum cleaner.

"Good morning," said the young man. "If I could take a couple minutes of your time, I would like to demonstrate the very latest in high-powered vacuum cleaners."

"F*** off!" said the old lady. "I haven't got any money" and she proceeded to close the door.

Quick as a flash, the young man wedged his foot in the door and pushed it wide open. "Don't be too hasty!" he said. "Not until you have at least seen my demonstration." And with that, he emptied a bucket of horse sh*t all over her hallway carpet."If this vacuum cleaner does not remove all traces of this horse sh*t from your carpet, Madam, I will personally eat the remainder."

"Well," she said, "I hope you've got a f***ing good appetite, because the electricity was cut off this morning."