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jrw14493


Joined: Aug 3, 2008
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Decent Commercial Machine
Original Message   Nov 24, 2008 1:03 am
I'm looking for a decent commercial machine to be used in a commercial setting in a video arcade by 16 year old kids that are in a hurry to get off work. We've got a Royal all M1028 that they are in the process of destroying. So far we've fixed, a few times, the pot metal handle where it connects to the machine . They also don't care what is vacuumed up. Although we've taught them to steer clear of pennies and dimes, the occasional hard candy still makes it's presence known in the fan case.

Beings that the video arcade is loaded with electronics, we are having a hard time with dust collecting on the circuit boards inside the games. With frequent air handler filter changes, the dust is still collecting, so a commercial machine with a HEPA filter is what we're looking for. And durable, as I stated. A Bag-first machine would also of course probably be the best idea with wide tubes leading to it. Probably bags beings nobody would ever clean the filter. Anything else I'm forgetting....oh...durability = #1 and then of course something that doesn't stir up the dust.

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Actionvac


Joined: Oct 22, 2008
Points: 80

Re: Decent Commercial Machine
Reply #17   Dec 5, 2008 3:51 pm
Sebo x4 is great
Trebor


Joined: Jan 16, 2009
Points: 321

Re: Decent Commercial Machine
Reply #18   Jan 18, 2009 7:00 am
Did you ever buy a vacuum?

The Sebo/Windsor comes as close to being teen proof as any vacuum can be:

1) It cannot be operated w/o bag or filter, or while clogged

2) The belt cannot be broken

3) It is easily dissembled for de-clogging

4) It signals the need for a new brush roller

5) The brush roller can be removed easily w/o any tools

6) To break it would require serious intent, the likes of which would bregrounds for dismissal

CarmineD


Joined: Dec 31, 2007
Points: 5894

Re: Decent Commercial Machine
Reply #19   Jan 18, 2009 8:53 am

Trebor wrote:

I worked for a large and growing appliance electronics retailer. Each store goes through six or more household bagless vacuums per year. I suggested that they move to backpacks and vacuum daily, not at night, but in the morning before the store opened to pick up all the debris and dust that settled at night, thus saving the effort and expense of daily dustmopping which puts a large quanity of dust back into the air, and stopping the practice of putting at least six vacuums per year into the landfills.
Hi Trebor:
Would you recommend a back pack vacuum[s] for the teens' use in the Arcades?
Carmine D.
This message was modified Jan 18, 2009 by CarmineD
jrw14493


Joined: Aug 3, 2008
Points: 7

Re: Decent Commercial Machine
Reply #20   Jan 19, 2009 4:01 pm
Trebor-

The owner is under the complete idea that nothing is better than an all-metal vacuum. My grandma has a Sebo and I use it regularly. I like it and I bet it would fare well in the arcade. It wouldn't be pretty after the first few uses but it bet it would still work. 

Thanks for all the recommendations guys! If the topic ever comes up again with the owner, I'll make the recommendation.

Trebor


Joined: Jan 16, 2009
Points: 321

Re: Decent Commercial Machine
Reply #21   Jan 19, 2009 6:43 pm
A LOT of enthusiastic backpack proponents thought the same until they gave them a try. U of Colorado spent in excess of 40,K per YEAR, buying , replacing, and repairing, upright  vacs, some of them all metal. The year of the switch, aside from initial outlay, the total maitenance costs were under 600.00!

All great truths begin as heresies

Vacuuman


The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.

Location: Denver
Joined: Aug 15, 2007
Points: 82

Re: Decent Commercial Machine
Reply #22   Jan 19, 2009 9:00 pm
I just have to ask, are you from Boulder CO?
Trebor


Joined: Jan 16, 2009
Points: 321

Re: Decent Commercial Machine
Reply #23   Jan 22, 2009 2:17 am
No, I from the midwest, Ft Wayne, IN to be precise. the balnce sheet for repairs for two t\years wer on the Pro-team website
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