robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison) (07/27/84)
The important thing to bear in mind is that vacuum cleaners are like screw drivers -- you should never expect one to do everything, and you can do your work better if you match the correct instrument to the job. We have five vacuum cleaners: (1) An upright that cleans deep carpets beautifully. (2) A very small model (runs on A.C.) with a head similar to #1 above, for carepted staircases and few special nooks and crannies. (3) A wet/dry cannister vacuum cleaner for basement puddles and minor flooding. Also handles very tough vacuuming jobs. (4) A tiny vacuum that plugs into the cigarette lighter service in the car. very handy for keeping the car neat during traffic jams. (5) (I'm sure there is one more. Oh yes:) A general purpose multi-attachment vacuum cleaner for hard floors, the refrigerator motor, upholstery, etc. None of these five could do a reasonable job substituting for any other! (By the way, I use #5 to clean the filter in the wet/dry vacuum. This makes perfect sense, and greatly extends the life of the big filter, but it does seem insane to design a vacuum cleaner that needs another one to clean it.) (Polite flames, from those who believe they have better multi-purpose vacuum cleaners, are welcome.) - Toby Robison (not Robinson!) allegra!eosp1!robison decvax!ittvax!eosp1!robison
faunt@saturn.UUCP (Doug Faunt) (07/29/84)
You should buy two filters for #5, and use it to clean it's own filter.