Even Sherlock Holmes is unable to locate where the plot went (if there ever was one), but I think it went to join its friends at the local council allotment site.
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Yes, I am paranoid, but am I paranoid ENOUGH?
Out amongst the stars, looking for a world of my own!
Had too much time on my hands today.
Here's my main issue with the airblades.
Courtesy of Google images
Courtesy of Google images
The black seam is where the water collects. It's meant to run down to the circle and evaporate. Doesn't work. That mould always grows unless the venue has perfect and over zealous housekeeping. I don't think it's as hygienic as they advertise. Especially when it's hard not to touch the sides through the narrow opening. There's a few simple low/no cost improvements that would sort it out but unless Dyson approach with £££s I'm keeping that to myself.
Here's some more interesting Dyson pictures. There's better ones including some hilarious cartoons. You have to find them yourselves though as they are 18 rated.
I didn't realise that the conversation had turned to upright vacuum cleaners. I was talking about what used to be called cylinder cleaners but nowadays all seem to be shaped like plant tubs.
So, that sorts out the problem with belts and the Vax wins.
As I get older I think a lot about the hereafter - I go into a room and then wonder what I'm here after.
Inside every old person is a young person wondering what the hell happened.
"Trying is the first step towards failure" ~ Homer J Simpson
elma wrote: 27 Sep 2017, 16:38
Had too much time on my hands today.
Here's my main issue with the airblades.
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The black seam is where the water collects. It's meant to run down to the circle and evaporate. Doesn't work. That mould always grows unless the venue has perfect and over zealous housekeeping. I don't think it's as hygienic as they advertise. Especially when it's hard not to touch the sides through the narrow opening. There's a few simple low/no cost improvements that would sort it out but unless Dyson approach with £££s I'm keeping that to myself.
Some off ours at work are suffering like that James and corrosion is setting in very badly around that black ring at the bottom..
I HATE those dyson hand driers and all of the copy versions. Noise. 70 to 80 dB. Worse when a lot are running at the same time.
Go into Tate Gallery, anywhere near reception/shop you are assaulted by the noise of the hand driers in the nearby toilets. NT Wimpole, lovely once-peaceful courtyard but your ears are battered by the intermittent hand drier noise from the toilets. Dozens of examples. Almost any big motorway service area on a busy day - take a P and get an earful of dysonnoise. Some restaurants have them - so all the diners having quite conversations can hear that you have washed AND DRIED your hands.
And another thing - imagine you lived at the top of a long hill and worked at the bottom, and you owned a bicycle with very high fixed gearing. It would get you to work but not back. It does just one thing - useless for anything else. Dyson airblades are just like that, they do just one thing very noisily - dry hands. The old white WDC (quieter) sort of hand dryer had chrome outlets that you could swivel and use to dry hands, face, your spectacles, and very likely other body parts as well. And they took up less wall space. And - did I mention this - they were a lot quieter.
I would like to sit James D on a chair in the middle of a large room with 4 hand driers, one on each wall, and make him sit there for a whole day as people came in and used them. Then he would realize the immensity of the aural torture he has inflicted on us all.
Grrr.
Meanwhile - I have a distant memory (perhaps late 1960's?) of a spherical vacuum cleaner that expelled its air through its bottom making it a hover-vacuum. Sort of citroen-like ride for the sucked up debris perhaps?
Richard_C
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Richard_C wrote: 27 Sep 2017, 17:57
Meanwhile - I have a distant memory (perhaps late 1960's?) of a spherical vacuum cleaner that expelled its air through its bottom making it a hover-vacuum. Sort of citroen-like ride for the sucked up debris perhaps?
Me mam had one of those Hoover Constellations.
You could fit the tube to that underside outlet and use it to blast dirt out of nooks and crannies
ETA I think she only recently got rid of it and it wasn't broken.
