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Re:Dyson Ball Vacuum Teardown by DigitalSea on Thursday October 01, 2015 @07:42PM (#10315601)
I think many people don't realise the high level of innovation that happens over at Dyson. Before Dyson debuted his cyclonic vacuum cleaners, there was nothing else like them on the market whatsoever. Competitors brought out their own cyclonic vacuum cleaners, but the cyclonic action is only one factor, the other is the high efficiency rates they're able to achieve in their cleaners which separates them from the rest.

Really nice teardown, I would love to see teardowns of other Dyson products. These guys are the Apple of the home appliance world and not many people realise it. To most, a Dyson vacuum cleaner is just an expensive cleaner and to others, they're modern industrial design marvels.

Re:Dyson Ball Vacuum Teardown by niels_olson on Thursday October 01, 2015 @08:14PM (#10315755)
You should go to a vacuum cleaner repair store and look at all the repaired dysons that the customers don't even bother to come back and pick up.

Statements like this concern me "It looks like an epoxy was used to weld the 2 ABS parts". I'm not sure "weld" means what they think it means.

Re:Dyson Ball Vacuum Teardown by jonah on Thursday October 01, 2015 @08:46PM (#10315889)
"Plastic Welding" is term people use. Though it tends to mean chemically bonding the mating plastics.
Re:Dyson Ball Vacuum Teardown by vixen99 on Friday October 02, 2015 @04:32AM (#10317351)
So how should one react to an anecdotal comment like this? The implication is that several vacuum cleaner repair stores have made reports and they reflect badly on Dyson as against results from other manufacturers? So where's the data?

For all I know, 'Dysons' are dreadful machines (not in my experience but who cares? - maybe I've just been lucky) but it's nice to see evidence before making general accusations.

Re:Dyson Ball Vacuum Teardown by chiph on Thursday October 01, 2015 @08:44PM (#10315883)
The design is impressive, but the construction is not. I see one being returned every few trips to Costco.
Re:Dyson Ball Vacuum Teardown by FireBeyond on Thursday October 01, 2015 @09:56PM (#10316159)
They just feel flimsy. Creaking and rattling make me worry about durability (and indeed I returned my DC41).