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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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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.