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Other Daniel
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Some people are anti-vax...
The_Yellow_Ardvark
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Don't you start.
dan.taylor.1
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I am when it comes to vacuums, our vax is sh**e!
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Need a corded one. Shark is a possibility?
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The original Dysons were good, new ones not so good. Our first one lasted years, replacement one didn’t last long. Replaced that with a vax, warranty ran out and it died too. Now onto a shark, couldn’t pull the skin of a rice pudding - pathetic. It’s a stupid design too, it can’t stand up by itself. You have to lean it against something or lie it on the floor. Glad I didn’t buy it, down to swmbo
My Old Landy
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Henry.
pedrobedro
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Friend of mine had one only lasted 8 months and waited ages for replacement.
Clean/change the filter in the top and bottom.
And/or unbung the blocked passage to one side of the brush bit.
Mine was a free replacement for an earlier version that had some design faults - bits just kept breaking. They sent replacement bits and then a complete new vacuum. I'd buy another.
dan.taylor.1
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All the above gets done regularly. It just chucks bits about with the bristles... Much prefer my Henry but he's too good in the workshop to clean carpets with!
Mine did for a while - turned out the exes kid had used it pick up the masking tape he'd pulled off something, rather than put it in the bin. Properly bunged up the tubes to the cyclone bits. A later reduction in suckage turned out to pet hair/women hair/sand/sticky sweet mix jammed in one of the passages in the brush head bit.
A subsequent reduction in women and kids living here cured both issues
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Definitely! Although very prone to toppling due to being top heavy and small front wheels it can survive most knocks. Dropped mine down 4 steps this morning while trying to over reach with the hose+1 for the henry
british made and bullet proof
barely a scratch 
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What planet are these designers on?! or is it the "lets see how complicated we can make it for a giggle" wager between the designers? good on you for taking it on though
EM1L4
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Presumably the engine is installed complete on the factory line. Maybe there should be a right to “easily” repair rule? Like they are doing for appliances. Give the designers a bit of a challenge but thats their job
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It's actually not that bad, and works well in integrating the engine into a number of different platforms. From cars to 4x4s to vans, both longitudinal and transverse. It's quite modular, with different front covers for different belt/accessory setups.
The rear gear/chain drive isn't as intimidating as it looks. It has 2 balance shafts, vacuum pump, injector pump, 2 idler gears and the chain up to the cams.
14h straight start to finish, as it needed to be back on the road ASAP.
Same engine in my Sprinter.
Moose McAlpine
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Presumably the engine is installed complete on the factory line. Maybe there should be a right to “easily” repair rule? Like they are doing for appliances. Give the designers a bit of a challenge but thats their job
Yes it goes in as a complete unit. Not dissimilar to how i remove/refit it.
Easy is a relative term, and there's a point at which the unwashed masses shouldn't be able to work on their vehicles.
Another thing to bear in mind is that manufacturers need to make engines that are efficient, quiet, light, reliable, low-emissions, powerful, smooth, etc. They need to satisfy everyone and complex engines are the end product. (It also has sequential turbos!)
So they're complex out of neccessity. Honestly, it wasn't a bad job at all and it's not a bad engine to work on.
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Great resto save. Very satisfying when you end up with a freebie that you only have occasional use for.Walking the dogs earlier in the year and saw this mixer had been put outside a house with a load of other scrap. It looked too good to scrap so I popped back with the van and took it home.
put it together and it was seized-
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Drum looked ok, hardly used-
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I took the belt off and the drum spun round so motor is siezed then , stripped it down-
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motor bearings were siezed, they were held on the shaft nicely, I ‘spose it saves manufacturing the shaft properly
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cleaned it all up, painted the motor, covers etc and all back together. I had some yellow Rustoleum paint at work which was almost a exact match!!
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I know its a diy only mixer, but its perfect for me to do small jobs around the house, etc. It all comes apart and stores in the drum so doesnt take up any room either.
Well pleased with it.
