Dyson cyclone puzzle

Go to your local tip(s) and see if there is another DC50 there (there seemed to be more Dysons than other makes when I dropped off some electronic junk at my local tip last week). If there is one, ask the tip operators if you can have one of the cyclones to (a) swap with your one or (b) try to take apart. If the cyclones have no scrap value, there shouldn't be a reason why they won't let you take it.

On Wednesday, January 16, 2019 at 3:26:34 PM UTC-5, snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote :

ir passages are too narrow.

angeover mechanism works correctly, head is unblocked, brush roll works fin e, cyclone has been washed out, top filter washed out & output filter remov ed for now until it works right, then I can put it back but not sure I will .

leased all the tabs on the mesh unit that surrounds the central core, but o ne part of it would not budge out no matter what. I can't see why, and ther e seems no other route to get into the cyclone assembly. Any ideas? I'm a b it fed up with it.

I once heard that thread and other bits of fabric can get caught up in the moving parts and melt if synthetic. I wonder what gets that out without a d isassembly?

Disassembly. But with a Dyson, that is not very difficult. In the 12 years we have had our unit, I have torn it down twice for general cleaning. takes about an hour from start-to-finish, and does make a difference.

Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA

air passages are too narrow.

changeover mechanism works correctly, head is unblocked, brush roll works f ine, cyclone has been washed out, top filter washed out & output filter rem oved for now until it works right, then I can put it back but not sure I wi ll.

Released all the tabs on the mesh unit that surrounds the central core, but one part of it would not budge out no matter what. I can't see why, and th ere seems no other route to get into the cyclone assembly. Any ideas? I'm a bit fed up with it.

Sadly getting stuff from dumps has been impossible for many years here.

NT

Really? You'll just have to get Sarah Moore involved. ;-)

A family member living an a wealthy American suburb says he has picked up numerous Dysons left by the curb for the trash or recycling collectors -- and all that was wrong with them was that the filter needed cleaning.

Perce

Percival P. Cassidy wrote: "A family member living an a wealthy American suburb says he has picked up numerous Dysons left by the curb for the trash or recycling collectors -- and all that was wrong with them was that the filter needed cleaning. "

That's the number one reason people go through so many vaccum cleaners in one decade: They simply refuse to consider emptying the rubbish out and/or cleaning the damn filers! So easy!

Imagine if people got new cars just because it was time to change the oil.

It's amazing the amount of perfectly good stuff that gets junked just for the want of a part costing a few pennies. That's the thing these days; too many people just go and buy another one.

These days too many people have no experience of building anything - didn't have Meccano/Erector sets, let alone built model aircraft or crystal sets, so have no clue about making or fixing things.

Dyson relevance: I have an original Dyson 05 cylinder model. After a year or three the surprisingly weak green clip at the bottom of the wand broke. A pivot came off one side of the catch. Being a long-time model builder and flyer, I naturally stuck a 3mm drill through the pivots, fitted a suitable length of 3mm OD brass tube and added epoxy to keep it in place. 25-30 years later the Dyson is still working well, which is more than I could say about the couple of Mr. Henry's it replaced.

Undoubtedly true, but not all parts do cost just a few pennies. E.g., today I saw that one little electronic module for our Maytag dryer sells for $358 -- and I'm not sure we paid much more than $400 for the whole appliance about three years ago. I'm glad I don't need one: I just happened to notice it while looking for something else.

Perce

Of course from the dump it costs nothing like that.

NT

I'll wager the actual component(s) that failed within that module could have been replaced for pennies, though. $358 is outrageous for probably in total no more than 10 bucks worth of bits.

Believe it or not, a lot of those appliance modules have high ESR caps caus ing issues, and they are usually smaller value caps that don't present them selves with a vented top or bottom. But a lot of them have bad processors or support circuitry, and there's no schematic for the board or datasheets available for most ICs that are house numbered, so they can be problematic to fix.

But yeah, most of those boards are worth $150 tops.

Martin Gregorie:

I watch almost as much TV as the average person, and see print ads in magazines and newspapers, but honestly I became aware of Dyson products only less than ten years ago. I had no idea Dyson was that old!

There seems to be 2 problems now.

Many younger people do not know how to repair things. All they do is play video games and text each other. When I grew up there were many 'toys' that taught things. Crystal radios, erector sets, chemical sets that could blow up things.

The second is often replacement parts cost way too much.

If taken to a repair place by the time the parts are bought and the cost of the time of the repairman is added, you can often get a new and improved modle.

Just like some warrenties, they want about 1/4 the cost of a new item that is less than $ 100.

Dyson was founded 1991, so my memory slipped a bit. My home accounting system shows I bought my DC05 Dyson in 2001 and did that repair in 2013.

OTOH there's an endless stream of chucked out stuff that's worth youngster's time repairing. But few parents have the expertise or time to show them how - or even realise it's doable.

NT

Maybe more.

And program phones/computers and binge-watch shows.