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this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2023
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Do It Yourself
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Make it, Fix it, Renovate it, Rehabilitate it - as long as you’ve done some part of it yourself, share!
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While there is a certain level of innate technical mindedness that people have.. Being willing to try to fix it, and the lessons you'll learn from either fixing it or not is huge. Regardless of outcome hopefully the experience will be somewhat fun and pay dividends in terms of being able to recognize where vacuums get bound up with clogs, hair, etc. Occasional deep cleaning will make all the vacuums in your future live longer and suck harder.
Projects that are 'either it gets fixed or tossed' are great, there's so little pressure, and so much you can learn.
Feel free to ask more specific questions if you get deep inside it and come up with them!
I inherited my Nan's Dyson DC25 when she went to live in a care home. Used it a few times and it was fine, but figured I'd strip it down and give it a damn good clean out.
The fucking thing damn near sucked up my carpet.
It's still going strong now. Had to replace the little nubbin that drives the brush bar a few weeks ago, but other than that it's still solid. Not bad for a 15 year old vacuum cleaner made to modern standards.
my current vacuum is going on 11 years. pretty proud of that $200 purchase. i’ve had 2-3 dogs at any given time, and this thing is a champ.
I can beat that: we've got a metal-bodied Viking vacuum from the late 1960s that I believe is still in functional condition (although not often used anymore, thanks to Roombas). It survived decades of pet hair.