The C5 shall return

[elma]

Lots to say yet but I'm feeling uncharacteristically conscious at how this topic is going so far off-topic

Let's bring it back on topic then.
Introducing the new C5

From https://www.clickcleaning.co.uk/products/i-vac-c5-compact-vacuum-cleaner-3374

It's a vacuum cleaner.

Carry on Jim.

[CitroJim]

Lots to say yet but I'm feeling uncharacteristically conscious at how this topic is going so far off-topic

Let's bring it back on topic then.
Introducing the new C5







i-vac-c5-compact-vacuum-cleaner.jpg
It's a vacuum cleaner.

Carry on Jim.

Maybe we should just have this topic renamed "Proposed New C5 and Vacuum Cleaners"

[EDC5]

ooh... I wonder what features the C5 Exclusive hoover comes with?

Maybe after PSA have finished restructuring it's all that Citroen will be good for making

[elma]

I'm particularly interested in the choice to fit nylon shoes which act as shock absorbers over hydropneumatics.

[GiveMeABreak]

Now you've all totally lost the plot!

[Hell Razor5543]

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.

[elma]

Now you've all totally lost the plot!

Can't lose what you never had Marc.

[GiveMeABreak]

[elma]

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.

Courtesy of Google images

Courtesy of Google images

Courtesy of Google images

Courtesy of Google images

Finally why it's ok to sell rubbish.

Courtesy of Google images

[Paul-R]

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.

[CitroJim]

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..

[Richard_C]

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?

[MikeT]

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.

[GiveMeABreak]

I remember those as a kid - they were made by Hoover and called the constellation:

Cracking things - but a little under-powered - would of worked even better if they had a skirt like a hover craft!

[CitroJim]

I remember those as a kid - they were made by Hoover and called the constellation:
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Cracking things - but a little under-powered - would of worked even better if they had a skirt like a hover craft!

Used to fix those as a lad at my Saturday job...

Richard, I totally agree with all you say about the airblade hand-drier and Mr. Dyson