I wonder if this could have been why the Royal Powercast failed so quickly? Besides the weight, of course, you did not readliy recognize the machine as a Royal.
The Royal Powercast was an excellent performer. A dealer let me use a new one in my home with the attachments [which were not stored on board, a major drawback] before buying. The very first thing I did with it was to vacuum up some small rocks and pebbles that I brought into the house when I did some back yard upgrading. We had a week of rain in Virginia and the yards were soaked and drenched. My dear Wife was vacationing, so I bought up a bunch of patio block stones on sale and walked them to the backyard through the house [a no no with the Wife present]. I staged the stones on the foyer rug and floor from the car [Ford Explorer] and before carrying to the back yard. The Powercast made them disappear quickly with no tell tale signs on the rugs/floors and vacuum.
I could have snagged it for a "C" buck. Wife wouldn't hear of it. She liked the job it did on the rugs and with the attachments. But it just was too darn heavy to use and big to store. Even more so than the Royal metals. It would have gathered dust in the closet [like my new DC07 pink]. So it went back.
As I recall, it came with a 6 year motor guaranty and the date was stamped on the machine. This was several years before dyson opted for the 5 year warranty on its dysons. An excellent marketing ploy that worked for dyson, not Royal.
Carmine D.
This message was modified Feb 21, 2008 by CarmineD
