> Hmm, ours has a spinning brush on the underside. The one time somebody run 
> over the cable, it chewed up the insulation on it. :-/

Oh, mine doesn't have the spinny brush bit on the main unit, only at the end 
of the pipe.

>> And no, not gasoline powered. Electric is already loud enough. :)
>
> Heh. Just imagine, a petrol-powered vacuum cleaner... Surely your house 
> would end up more dirty than when you started! :-D

Nah, you just store the exhaust on-board in a canister, then dispose of it 
once it's full.  Or have the engine part outside, and a long pipe :-)

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> Heh. My mum screwed me and my sister to a plank of wood...
> 
> I would like the record to show the following:
> 
>   This experience was rather painful for both my sister and me. When my 
> mum realised what was going on, she immediately tried to put the drill 
> into reverse drive.
> 

Ok. So what on Earth was the meaning of that experiment? :O

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Jim Henderson wrote:

> (As I've said before, babies don't come with instruction 
> manuals.....parents just do the best they can with what they've got....)

Fortunately, babies don't come with a warranty either. Cos my parents 
would have taken me back as "damaged goods". o_O

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scott wrote:
>> I hope I and my ASCII are understandable...
> 
> Marginally more understandable I suspect than if you had talked about 
> torques in 3D ;-)
> 
> 

I actually started thinking that maybe I should trace the situation (and 
reveal the code), 'cause it would be easier to understand ;).

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>> Hmm, ours has a spinning brush on the underside. The one time somebody 
>> run over the cable, it chewed up the insulation on it. :-/
> 
> Oh, mine doesn't have the spinny brush bit on the main unit, only at the 
> end of the pipe.

They call it a "beater bar", apparently. These's a little switch to 
deactivate it. (It's actually just a lever that pulls the drive belt 
tight or slack.)

>> Heh. Just imagine, a petrol-powered vacuum cleaner... Surely your 
>> house would end up more dirty than when you started! :-D
> 
> Nah, you just store the exhaust on-board in a canister, then dispose of 
> it once it's full.

The laws of thermodynamics seem to suggest this wouldn't work too well...

> Or have the engine part outside, and a long pipe :-)

Apparently that's how the first vacuum cleaners worked...

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>>>> Heh. My mum screwed me and my sister to a plank of wood...
>>
>> I would like the record to show the following:
>>
>>   This experience was rather painful for both my sister and me. When 
>> my mum realised what was going on, she immediately tried to put the 
>> drill into reverse drive.
>>
> 
> Ok. So what on Earth was the meaning of that experiment? :O

She was actually trying to screw a wooden frame together, but the weight 
of it kept making it twist, so she got me and my sister to hold it still 
while she did the screws up with an electric drill.

Unfortunately, the only possible way to hold it still... was... to put 
your fingers in the way...?

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> They call it a "beater bar", apparently. These's a little switch to 
> deactivate it. (It's actually just a lever that pulls the drive belt tight 
> or slack.)

Yep, it's the bit that gets all the hairs tangled around it making it hard 
to turn ;-)  On mine the beater bar is powered by the air-flow, because it's 
at the end of the pipe.

> The laws of thermodynamics seem to suggest this wouldn't work too well...

Use a balloon stretched over the exhaust pipe then :-)

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Invisible wrote:

> Fortunately, babies don't come with a warranty either. Cos my parents 
> would have taken me back as "damaged goods". o_O

The warranty would only cover manufacturer defects anyway. Damages 
caused by, say, accidentally screwing you to a board wouldn't be covered 
by the warranty :)

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~Mike

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Mike Raiford wrote:

> The warranty would only cover manufacturer defects anyway. Damages 
> caused by, say, accidentally screwing you to a board wouldn't be covered 
> by the warranty :)

LMAO!

Thanks for that... :-)

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scott wrote:
> Nah, you just store the exhaust on-board in a canister, then dispose of 
> it once it's full.  Or have the engine part outside, and a long pipe :-)

No, you store the canister and engine outside, and just use a really 
long hose.

http://home.howstuffworks.com/central-vacuum.htm

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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