On Friday, August 16, 2019 at 6:03:23 PM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:
> On Friday, August 16, 2019 at 11:35:28 AM UTC-10, Sheldon wrote:
> >
> > A battery operated stick Dyson is about the babyest of all baby
> > vacuums, not at all appropriate for large amounts of pet hair.
> > My Dyson, The Animal, vacuums my entire 2,000 sqft house before its
> > dirt canister needs emptying... and it's directly plugged into an
> > outlet, no babyish battery. Rechargeable battery tools are okay for
> > light use but can't compete with plug-in models, and that's true for
> > ANY tool... including Kootchies Leaf... a rechargeable battery
> > operated vehicle is in other words a POS! Compared to a manual an
> > electric toothbrush is a POS, I rarely use it, I much prefer a manual.
>
> My daddy used to sell vacuum cleaners. He sold Filter Queens which sold for a lot of dough. We always had a Filter Queen in our house. I would take off the top cap and attach the hose to the outlet to get a high velocity stream of air. Holy smokes, that's a lot of fun for a kid. I would float balls in the air stream or use it to stoke a charcoal fire. You could have a full fire in a couple of minutes. Amazing!
>
> My son's family is living at his in-law's home and I was surprised that they had a Filter Queen. It's the same design as the one we had in the 60's. When we had one, I thought it was way too expensive for a vacuum. Ha ha, the new ones cost 4 grand!

Filter Queen is a great vacuum. My mother has one that she inherited from her mother who purchased it in the late '70's. It still does a really good job.