Vacuum Cleaners Discussions

What vacuum & tools do U use to vacuum out auto interiors?

I use either:

1. Filter Queen 31
2. Ridgid WD1956
3. 1950s? Royal metal hand vac
4. Electrolux 1205
5. Compact
6. vac at nearby car wash (mfr unknown)

& tools that I use:

1. Hoover WT Turbo brush (when I use shop vac)
2. Flex crevice tool
3. Duster brush (horsehair bristles)
4. FQ's Mini Pow-R-Nozzle (but I have to plug into ext. cord unless I use my FQ mdl K31X)
5. Lux combo duster tool (the best duster brush)

CarmineD wrote:

Hi Carmine,

I know but its old fashioned too.  It came out with first of the Electrlux tank types more than fifty years ago.  I find Electrolux's combi tool great especially for this kind of thing.  (It also provides one less reason for banging my head getting in and out of the car to get things.)  It's small and concentrates suction well for cleaning the low nap carpet in front and at the back of my wagon.  All I have to do is turn it around to dust off stuff.  Best of all, as I stated prior, its a cheap solution.  The whole used vacuum, PN included, cost less than I woud have had to have paid Miele for its mini turbo tool.

The only thing I don't like is that the Lux tool doesn't have a brush or velcro lint picker but Electrolux upholstery tools never did.

Venson

CarmineD wrote:
Well, please don't assume. Like the personal message you sent me with regards to Oreck's redesigned bag holder..

Venson wrote:

Hi Venson:

It's correct to say I'm older than Old fashion. 

Carmine D.

vacmanuk wrote:

Well if there are slots in the upholstery tool as you say, it appears that my assumption about clogging is correct an accurate concern.  Releasing the full suction [with open slots] of the wider surface upholstery tool would diminish the clogging potential in the narrow neck dirt opening of the crevice tool. 

The only point I think you are referring to is the bag locking/staging bracket on the later models ORECK bags to hold the bag collars securely.  Which I must say work well.

Carmine D.

Well the open slots were designed to make the flat head tool easier to glide; something that most SEBO marketed products do. Their flat mattress tool for example doesn't have any open slots.