Dead Dyson motor?

[MattF]

Definitely a posh made up name for a stepper motor then.

 

[urban]

got a dyson that must be 10+ years old now, never had a single problem with it ever.... still sucks like new and think its had the filter cleaned once on it, still got all the original tools with it and still on the original cable and my stuff doesn't get looked after particularly well.

Guessing the new ones have gone the same way everything else has nowadays.... built to last out the 12month warranty and that's it, don't think it's dyson alone that are like this just the modern day design and manufacture of just about every product you can buy today, its the age old saying....

They don't make them like they used to.

 

[pidgeon chit welder]

Out second dyson was 8 yrs old and as disability has made it difficult for me to use we went to Tesco and purchaed a new Dyson digital motor Animal ball vacuum for special offer plus points price of £ 179 .. final cost to us after handing over the points we held which were asessed at twice their value was just over £ 90 .
I'll say one thing , it is streets ahead of the D C 01 & Dc07 animal . The filters are a doddle to clean every three months & it is about half as loud as the other machines .

Both the other dyson machines got a single dyson engineers service which saw us get two new motors , 2 beater bars and two hoses plus one dust can for the DC07 .. well worth the £75 ish service charge as well .

The DC01 was purchased a few days after they came on the market and has seen us through three house renovations , the DC07 has also had it's share of building crud pass through it over the 8 yrs of it's life .

I think the new Dyson ball Animal has a five year warrantee on it not a single years.

The comment made that Dyson ran it alone because the big boys wanted the ongoing bag money is the biggest reason why we chose Dyson's .. no bags to keep buying and decent suction all the time plus a cleanable filter that could be washed out in just clean water.

 

[Wedg1e]

.. no bags to keep buying and decent suction all the time plus a cleanable filter that could be washed out in just clean water.

I have a 20-year-old Vax 121 that has washable filters AND a washable bag. Still sucks like a Middlebrough schoolie after three J2O. I got it second-hand for £50 a few months old and was that impressed I blagged another one from a guy at work whose wife didn't like it as it was 'too hard work to push' - that'll be the suction then love He'd ended up using it to clean out his aviary so the exhaust air smelled a bit, thus he couldn't sell it so I got it free.
One is my workshop vac, don't even bother with a bag in that one, it'll suck swarf off the mill
The first one has had new brushes and a replacement mains cable, the second is still untouched.

I think the quality of electric motors in appliances has generally gone down the tubes in the last 10 years or so; I have a 1980s Black and Decker drill (one of their early all-plastic ones) and although the motor is poor in that, it's still miles better than in the last couple of (newer) power tools I've had apart.

 

[cardiffrob]

3 Dysons. Oldest is 10 yrs, youngest 5. I use one in the garage to clean the swarf off of a lathe and it has done that for years without trouble, apart from the on/off switch wearing away at the hinge.

Love them or loathe them...they really suck!

 

[pidgeon chit welder]

I have a 20-year-old Vax 121 that has washable filters AND a washable bag. Still sucks like a Middlebrough schoolie after three J2O. I got it second-hand for £50 a few months old and was that impressed I blagged another one from a guy at work whose wife didn't like it as it was 'too hard work to push' - that'll be the suction then love He'd ended up using it to clean out his aviary so the exhaust air smelled a bit, thus he couldn't sell it so I got it free.
One is my workshop vac, don't even bother with a bag in that one, it'll suck swarf off the mill
The first one has had new brushes and a replacement mains cable, the second is still untouched.

I think the quality of electric motors in appliances has generally gone down the tubes in the last 10 years or so; I have a 1980s Black and Decker drill (one of their early all-plastic ones) and although the motor is poor in that, it's still miles better than in the last couple of (newer) power tools I've had apart.

I too have a 121 with all the carpet shampoo gear .. goodness how old it is , I've had it 24 years and it was second hand then . Have fitted a replacement motor about 9 yrs ago that came off a damaged machine and have also replaced the cable .
It used to have the skateboard as well but that got broken by the " Expert Removals " people four year ago."

 

[Wedg1e]

It used to have the skateboard as well but that got broken by the " Expert Removals " people four year ago."

Skateboard?

I only have the carpet shampoo gear for one of mine, I think the most impressive job I ever used it for was the carpet from my dad's Sierra. He'd bought it from a builder so the carpet was full of sand, cement, mud, you name it.
Dad stripped the interior with a view to getting a replacement carpet from a scrappie but I offered to try the Vax first: there was an inch and a half of crud in the bottom of the machine when we emptied it!
The carpet came up so clean it went back in

 

[pedrobedro]

Skateboard?

I only have the carpet shampoo gear for one of mine, I think the most impressive job I ever used it for was the carpet from my dad's Sierra. He'd bought it from a builder so the carpet was full of sand, cement, mud, you name it.

Best thing for carpets like that is pressure wash then hang them over a wall or Vax them after.

 

[dannyp]

+1 to that pressure washing carpets and seats is unbelivably effective.seats take a while to dry tho.

as for dysons never really got on with them, to be fair they don't loose suction but they don't suck very well to begin with hence not much use

 

[KemppiFrog]

I have no prob with Dyson. Made the correct decisions re: offshore. He would have been nuts to stay in UK for production. But,as said, his R & D is in UK. Battled the established big guys over patents. Global Cos. don't have ethics, they can't afford them and feel no need... Tabacco??
I agree over the rip off prices for bags.
As for old quality: My mother had a push Hoover, belt snapped, guy came to fix it. He pleaded with her to offer it to their museum, as they didn't have one like it. No.. just replace the belt please.
Nowadays it is mostly made in PRC. Pot luck if you pay for QC.

 

[garethp]

Wow - quite a hot topic

The motor came and the wife is now happy, my 13month old daughter is too, she starts clapping when the Dyson appears but cried when the spare vacuum was brought out!

Incidentially, I've got an old Vax in the garage which just about works but appears to be really fragile - the slightest knock and it either cracks or something drops off, its now held together with duct tape.

 

[pidgeon chit welder]

Skateboard?

I only have the carpet shampoo gear for one of mine, I think the most impressive job I ever used it for was the carpet from my dad's Sierra. He'd bought it from a builder so the carpet was full of sand, cement, mud, you name it.
Dad stripped the interior with a view to getting a replacement carpet from a scrappie but I offered to try the Vax first: there was an inch and a half of crud in the bottom of the machine when we emptied it!
The carpet came up so clean it went back in

Skate board ..
Early ones had a detachable orange tray/ring with five castors on it that the Vax lower half sat in .... good for vomit on the carpeted night club stairs . The last ones made had it fused to the lower half of the Vax and was a bit dodgy to use on stairs so I took the castors off.
That said I think some models were availabe without the skate board and it could be purchased as an extra along with reuseable washable terylene ( sp )dust bags