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Whether it be electronics, automobiles or medical equipment, the manufacturers should not be able to horde “oem” parts, render your stuff useless if you repair it with aftermarket parts, or hide schematics of their products.
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Having sold them in a previous life, marketing and hype.
We got a lot of people who would "upgrade" from a Miele vacuum because they wanted to stop buying bags, then see them a few months later buying bags for their Mieles.
Sorry to all the people who like them, but bagless vacuums leak sooner or later and say what you will about upright vacuums, you just can't reach as many spots as a low profile head on a pole.
what do you mean by
leak dust? that's when you need to change the filters, which is also the case for vacuum with bags, for sure it's less often as the bag is the primary filter itself (after reading again I realised that you just said that...😅)
Even though vacuum with bags are easier to maintain, I still like my bag less vacuum (a corded one) because I don't have to think to buy bags
Iirc, dyson advertises their vacuums never need to change filters. But thats probably that break before you ever get to replacing a filter. Lol
There is some magnet or sensor in the filter and if they is some small misalignment it refuses to work, I’ve had to replace the filters on at least 2 Dysons because of this ‘feature’. I’m not sure what it achieves… other than ensuring you need to replace parts after you’ve cleaned it a few times and the fit gets sloppy.
Bagless vacuums have all sorts of low quality plastic pieces that junction together with equally low quality seals. Add enough dirt, and the only way to get it to seal like new is to take the whole thing apart and wash everything, replacing damaged parts as you go. At that point, it's more economical to just buy another vacuum.
Most of the seal doesn’t matter though because the whole thing is under vacuum, so unless it’s so bad you’ve lost suction, the seal doesn’t have to be that accurate.
Only the seal between the filter and blower motor is what actually matters.
The only thing I’ve noticed about Dysons (and not what the marketing says) is that their motors are very well designed and powerful, especially for the size. We’re using a 15 year old hand me down, but the one that my mom replaced it with is already in a land fill somewhere, she had a Meile for a month, returned it and ended up with a Shark I think.
Exactly what I meant, knowing how loathe people are to do routine maintenance let's be honest, most Dysons operate within their marketing specifications for a few months and after that they are on a downwards trajectory.
Miele is one of the brands I respect, mostly because of the way their products are tested. I remember a video from back in the day that showed a testing rig that essentially threw their test subject down a flight of stairs multiple times. Turns out there is a statistical average number of times a vacuum will fall down a flight of stairs and they test that their vacuums still function after exceeding that average.