Today was cleaning day at the old homestead. Of course that included lots of vacuuming since I have lots of carpet in my apartment. I figured that since I hadn't looked at some of the moving parts in my Dyson vacuum, now would be a good time to see if any of its parts needed cleaning. The front roller needed cleaning since there was all this hair and other stuff wrapped around the roller. Stupid me, I took off the plate that holds the roller and started trying to PULL the hair off instead of cutting it. This resulted in me pull up one half of the roller from the rest of the vacuum. Since I couldn't fix it right away, I decided to clean it first then attempt to put it back together. After a good 15 minutes of struggle and examining the totally useless instructions, I was able to put the roller back on the vacuum and it worked perfectly again. I will not be taking apart my $500+ vacuum again in the near future unless I have detailed schematics I can tell you that!
Sunday, February 19, 2006
Man am I dumb sometimes.......
Today was cleaning day at the old homestead. Of course that included lots of vacuuming since I have lots of carpet in my apartment. I figured that since I hadn't looked at some of the moving parts in my Dyson vacuum, now would be a good time to see if any of its parts needed cleaning. The front roller needed cleaning since there was all this hair and other stuff wrapped around the roller. Stupid me, I took off the plate that holds the roller and started trying to PULL the hair off instead of cutting it. This resulted in me pull up one half of the roller from the rest of the vacuum. Since I couldn't fix it right away, I decided to clean it first then attempt to put it back together. After a good 15 minutes of struggle and examining the totally useless instructions, I was able to put the roller back on the vacuum and it worked perfectly again. I will not be taking apart my $500+ vacuum again in the near future unless I have detailed schematics I can tell you that!
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Ha-ha.... yeah, I've done that before. I love my Dyson but DAMN are those things a pain to disassemble and reassemble. I'm like a Dyson SEAL now; can field strip it and put it back together in total darkness and while under fire.
Now that Mr. Smith is what I call impressive! I take it you've had to do this many many times. Maybe this is your next calling careerwise, Dyson service technician!!!
I'll try to ignore that comment, since I'm in the middle of a career switch right now. I'd personally prefer that, that did not come true!
Since you're a nuclear engineer, maybe you can find a way to put a small reactor in the Dyson so I don't need to plug it in, the cord is nice and long but gets in the way too much!
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