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Posted by mm on June 10, 2007, 10:39 pm
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 06:39:24 -0500, "Rick Brandt"
>Donna wrote:
>>
>> > I don't mind the idea of using a bag, but does anyone have an
>> > implementation of that idea that isn't a royal PITA when changing
>> > them? Most bag vacs I've used have been very awkward in that area.
>>
>> What is the PITA about changing vacuum bags? I mean, you open the
>> machine, swap out the dirty bag for a clean one, toss the dirty one
>> and go. The biggest problem I have, is remembering which damn size
>> to buy at the grocery store. I can never remember if I need H or Z
>> or whatever. But other than that, I don't consider that changing the
>> bag even begins to approach the frequency, complication and dirtiness
>> of emptying the bagless kind. But perhaps you have a more
>> complicated bagged model? Most of the ones I've used have been
>> upright. They're simple to change bags on.
>> Donna
>
>We currently have a Hoover model that uses "Z" bags a believe. You unfold the
>bag and press the cardboard hole in the bag over a horiziontal pipe facing
>straight out and the hole is near (but not at) the top of the bag.
>
>You basically find the tube by feeling for it and there is no positive feedback
>that you have the bag inserted far enough over the tube. While getting the
rest
>of the bag positioned for closing the compartment it is easy to dislodge the
>bag.
Are you missing the spring that goes around that tube?
> Also when removing a full bag the horizontal not-quite-at-the-top design
>causes some spillage.
Then do it outside. Turn the vacuum over and all the dust falls on
the ground. Where it goes after that, I don't know. :)
>
>PITA might be somewhat overstating it, but it certainly doesn't strike me as a
>particularly well thought-out design.
Got a better one? Maybe you can sell it to them.
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