Your masterfully engineered vacuum cleaner can ruin a person’s afternoon if he’s asked to empty the dustbin without an instruction book handy.
A few moments of careful examination revealed a switch called BIN EMPTYING. I thought, Great, this will disengage the dustbin from the air circulator and allow me to carry it over to the trash can. It didn’t appear to do any such thing, or indeed, anything. Then I noticed a switch called CYCLONE. Hmm, interesting, that released the air chamber and dustbin all in one. *OK, great. I’ll just carry the whole deal over and emp… FUCK! FUCKIN’ SHIT ON A FUCKSTICK! THE FUCKING BOTTOM CAME LOOSE AND THE FUCKER IS SHITTING DUST ALL OVER ITSELF AND MY RUG!! :mad:
*Oh, so that’s what the BIN EMPTYING switch does. It lets loose the bottom of the dustbin. Christ on a cream cracker, James! I can’t pull out a dustbin and turn it over myself? I have to do that by means of a switch that will dump grotty allergenic crap all over creation if pushed at the wrong time???
I dunno. Maybe there are more important priorities in designing home appliances than making them intuitively easy to use without major mishap. But I wonder…I just wonder.
Fucker dumped dust an inch deep all over itself and the floor. FUCK! I mean, WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK??!?
My parents got one of these things. It’s the most ridiculously over-engineered piece of crap I’ve ever seen. And it just looks (and feels) shoddy as hell. I expect the whole thing to start shedding parts inside of another six months or so.
I did the same thing in Sears the first time I tried a Dyson. Now (after I bought one) I just keep reminding myself that the thing that looks like a trigger will open the bin…
I’ve had one for two years and it’s going strong. Great attachments, “never loses suction,” and impossible to figure out without a 3 credit hour course.
Once you do it the first time, the thing is simpler than almost any vacumn I’ve used before. The thiong I got wrong the first day was that if the handle is upright when it’s on, it’s bypassing through the attachment hose at the top of th handle. I called the 800 number and just from listening on the phone, the operator was able to tell me what I did wrong.
I did, when I got the g/d thing. (As a gift from my parents.) I think this is a case of Mtfm, ie: memorize the fucker. Jesus H., it doesn’t work THAT much better than my old idiot-proof Hoover.
Hate them; a triumph of marketing and pointless technology over actual product virtue.
I’ve mentioned the one that they bought (against my advice to the contrary) at one of the offices where I work - the fan exhaust blows forward at ground level; attempt to use the machine to clean up a spill from a paper punch and it merely blows the spillage all over the place before you can run it over with the cleaner.
As I mentioned in the other thread, my wife (who has tons of experience with a multitude of high and low tech, high and low cost vacuums in the past) thinks it’s the greatest ever.
Two things that I REALLY like about the Dyson over other vacuums we have had is –
How easy it is to empty. Bingo, done. The uprights with a bag are a pain, and a mess. I will never buy a vacuum with a bag to empty/replace again.
It’s also the only upright that has a good suction hose that’s easy to use (that I have used), and actually has some power. Not as much as a typical shop vac, but much more than two other uprights we had. It actually works. It’s much nicer to be able to ‘Whip it out’ and suck around window sills, under the bed and behind furniture. And vacuum the floor, all at once. Again, bingo; done. No need to get the shop vac too for basic cleaning.
Now, I bet that there are others out there with these features, so shop around.
I don’t like that some of the plastic parts seem a bit weak, but so far so good.
It is heavier than many. But it is quiet. And I think, a good machine.
Is it actually true that it doesn’t lose suction? They talk a lot of hoo-hah about how the reason it doesn’t lose suction is that instead of sending the air through a filter, they spin it so the centripetal forces fling the dirt out of it, so there’s no filter to clog up. Well, sounds great, except I have a 5-ish year old Dirt Devil bagless vacuum that claimed to operate on this same fantastic principle, and it does not work for shit. Turns out the air has to go somewhere after getting all the dirt supposedly-flung-out-of-it, and that somewhere is through a fucking last-chance filter, which, surprise, surprise, clogs up with extremly fine dust.
Yes, keep the manual handy. I have to remind myself how to use it, given that I clean my townhouse once every 6 months or so whether it needs it or not (Bachelor, for those who haven’t guessed). But it’s the greatest friggin’ vacuum in the world.
I know it sucks to have this shit happen, but, uh… the switch says “bin emptying” and you get pissed off that it… empties… the bin. What else would you expect an emptying switch to do? Now if it did that while it was labeled “detatch the bin” or something, I can see being pissed.
I have a Dyson upright (which I like it’s powerful and looks good standing in the corner of the last room I vacuumed). It does have a filter to stop fine dust getting at the motor which does eventually clog and prevents suckage and makes the motor overheat. The first time this happened to me I didn’t know there was a filter. I phoned the help-line number from the side of the machine and immediately got through to a nice lady who was very polite considering I had not RTFM.
Every couple of months I have to pull out the filter and wash it, no biggie.