A Dyson in Hooverland

[hoover1060]

as far as I can tell...

The Chinese made Royals are ok, a good friend of mine runs a vac shop and thats mainly what he sells, people love those machines!

 

[tolivac]

Yes I have a Chinese made Royal-It works well-but I have noticed the brushroll has a little wear already-the machine is about a month old.Will see how it goes.It is nicely built.The Chinese factory must be well supervised.

 

[magic clean]

Royal 4600 all-metal tank cleaner

O.K. vacuum officianado's, while killing time waiting for auto repairs; I picked up a beautiful very retro looking Royal 4600 with electric powerbrush at a Thrift store for $10. K It's in great shape. All attachments intact and works like a champ! Has a thick disk foam/micro-fresh hepa like filter, a cloth bag wherein the disposable paper bag is inserted. There are 2 hefty clamps that hold the removeable bag-cover--hose inlet in place. The cord wraps around a saucer shaped exhaust diffuser. The attachements ride on a saddle perched on top. You can control the machine functions on the hose handle and via a chrome pushbutton switch on the tank.

Any ideas on its age. I'm thinking it's not too old, despite its looks. The serial # says I91113049A. Plant A.
Royal......Cleveland Ohio.

I'll see if I can get a picture posted. TIA!

Leslie

 

[hoover1060]

Leslie,
Sounds like a good deal to me, lets have a pic!

 

[programcomputer]

HI Leslie..a thought on the The Royal tank

Leslie,

I just purchased from my store a Royal Power tank model 4650. It's the all burgandy model with the electronic control grip/variable suction and etc. I love it becasue it grooms my carpet VERY well with the double brush powerhead that resembles a older Kenmore Power-Mate head.

The hose on my machine is 10 ft long and really makes anything above the floor candy work. Also, the machine filters quite well which i was suprised to find out. Not quite as well as a Miele (wink wink), but great nonetheless. It replace my Eureka Empress II, becasue I got a goofy dog and needed something that would last as long as he does. And he's only 9 mos. old. THe Eureka WOULD have dowen this, but they just don't make parts for this machine anymore..so Im scared to overuse it and have it become junk...hence the Royal purchase.

I absolutly love it. Yeah it's not the Miele wonder vac, but it's a prime example of a good ol' american made machine (most likely by Air-Way anyhow) the tools are all worthy of praise..and it's a great whole house vac. My ONLY complaint with it...NO CORD REEL!!!! I asked the Royal rep about this when he came thru..and his response was..."well, we don't make them anymore anyway...and Royal hates cordreels becasue they all break anyway....MY 25+ year old Eureka was no match for his hatred as he claimed...Well it must have been babied"

Yet...just look at the recently discontinued PowerCast cleaners. Proof again that even Royal is able to build an ugly 35 lb. boat anchor for the masses, with cheaply constructed metal parts and brusroll motors that cant even propell the brush properly. try and look for one..no self respecting royal dealer will talk about it. Just like any Ford dealer would decline to admit that the Edsel ever exsisted in 1961.

Anyway keep it. Use it for soemthing. they just aren't made like this anymore..IMHO even the Miele won't last "quite' as long

Chad

 

[kenmore1978]

Edsel

"Just like any Ford dealer would decline to admit that the Edsel ever exsisted in 1961."

Ironically, despite popular opinion, the Edsel wasn't really a bad car, especially the 1959/60 models. The '58 models had the usual 'teething" problems most new cars had back then ( a little over complex) but the last 2 years failure was really due to image

 

[programcomputer]

Just so you know....

I myself am one of the largest supporters of the Edsel car, it's history and it's symbolisms to the foolishness of the 1950's. I love the Edsel and have many books and papers and so forth dating from 1957 ( a dealer brochure, and thru today with current books and magaines tha ti purchase about the make).

I love the 58's over the last two years basically becasue the car was brought out exactly as Ford wanted it to look and be. And then they pussed out and de-edselized the auto to look like a Ford with a de-emphasizeed front to 1960 where it was just a Ford with a thouroughly demoralized name.

I was just reffering to the fact that after a failure, most people try to forget the fact that the product,, or products ever exsisted. hence the coment above...not that I hate the car...

Chad

 

[fnelson487]

OK Jet!!

Time to tell the story about your parent's Edsel and what you did!!

Fred