Vacuum Cleaners Discussions

Vax (UK) is laucnhing some new vacuums and carpet washers. The Vacuums are using the Mach branding/model as used by Hoover US.  Looks like they have some license to use this branding/name in the UK along with the Dual V. 

Use link below and have a look around the floorcare section.  These are not on the offical UK Vax website as yet!

http://www.littlewoodsdirect.com/rf/lxd/navigation/spreadDsbs.do?categoryId=7077516

There is Mach 6, Mach 5 and Mach 3 also Mach 4 appears with the filter kit section.  Also new hand held Cone by Vax which has been seen in the US I do believe?  They also have Dual V carpet washers which are the same\simular as the Hoover US ones!

DC18

mole wrote:
A central vacuum that uses cyclone separation?  There's one out there already...Vacuflo!  They've been around for a while, I myself saw one for the first time at a home builder's show in January of '96 and I'm pretty sure they had been out for quite a few years even by that time.

But that's been the idea well all along.  Modern central vacuum systems I knew of as early as the 1960s were bagless and used cyclonics, though possibly not referred to as that, for dust collection.  The idea was that the central vacuum could be used without bags -- a selling point -- and required infrequent emptying.  This meant a large dust container. The estimation for emptyiing was usually given as two time or so per year.  If I recall correctly there was usually a conical baffle within the main unit that allowed incoming air to spin and shed most of the dirt it carried before being blasted outdoors.

Changes have been made in recent times because though the idea of a central vacuum system is appealing it may not be easily workable in some situations due feasibilty of exhaust placement.  Thus came the central units we're seeing now that use large bags for dust collection plus exhaust filtration devices.

Please note that though Vacu-Flo produce a "filtered cylonic" system that does not require outside venting, saving on replacement bags, I wonder at the practicality considering the situation.  You'd still have to do either filter clean-up or replacement to maintain the unit.  Check out the links below especialy the PDF bearing the operators manual.

http://www.vacuflo.com/products_filteredcyclonic.html

http://www.vacuflo.com/pdf/FC300.pdf

Venson

mole wrote:

If you don't care, then why the hell did you bother responding to "DC18's" posting?

Inane comments like that we can well do without! 

Hi Trillo,you know something your right,i should have been more friendly to Chris,  since i sell him his parts..........

MOLE