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Still haven't been able to get the vacuum cleaner to work. Should we blame James or Dempsey?

Aaaaaaagggghhhhhh!

Blame everyone! Bloody thing!

Anyone with in a 1 km radius is fair game I say!  

Hope you get it going soon. Makes me crazy if the floors arent clean.

Any luck?

It's been driving me insane!

No luck. Even tried using the other socket, in case it was that stopping it from working.

All i can suggest is unplug it, completely rewind the cable, then pull it out about half way & try again !

Sounds like its blown if diff socket still dosent work. 

The good old straw broom is nearly as good but.....lotta hard work!
Good excersice too!!!
I'm not helping am I?   
Funny though, when it's no happening to me.
Hope you can get it working or it looks like a trip to the electrical store. 

Caryll wrote:All i can suggest is unplug it, completely rewind the cable, then pull it out about half way & try again !

First things I did.

Seriously, it's packed in. Won't start at all.

tracyp wrote:Sounds like its blown if diff socket still dosent work. 

The good old straw broom is nearly as good but.....lotta hard work!
Good excersice too!!!
I'm not helping am I?   
Funny though, when it's no happening to me.
Hope you can get it working or it looks like a trip to the electrical store. 

We have wall-to-wall carpeting and a dog whose hairs are like little arrow tips, embedding themselves into the carpet! Not sure a broom would do it!

Looks like the local electrical shop is in for some business tomorrow.  

I'm happy to lend you mine if you need. 

Hopefully it just needs a time out!

Thanks - you'll need to pay for my flight to Australia, though!

  Sure! 
If you vac my floors 1st? Worth the cost!  

Give it 6hrs. See if the motor was too hot.  
Maybe its not knackered?

Eleanor wrote:Still haven't been able to get the vacuum cleaner to work. Should we blame James or Dempsey?

Did you check for a guilty face? Normally gives the guilty party away. Human or k9.    Maybe it's just given up the ghost?

I'll pass - too hot out there for me!

I doubt the motor was too hot. It's been sitting around for a while, but wouldn't start at all when I got it out to use it.

James was still asleep and Demps avoids the vacuum cleaner like the plague! The vacuum cleaner has been going wrong for a while now. It stops when the power cord is pulled out too much, so you have to draw it back in for a bit.

Thats a short. Needs to be rewired.
I need to prod jess to move when I vac, but Tyson.....he moves so far away I need a map to find him! 

It pulled the wiring loose from the main body, so yep.

Demps hates the vacuum cleaner with a passion. He'll usually avoid it, unless somebody shoves it in his face and he can't back off.

The only problem now is to figure out how he did it, all the way from university!

I was going to suggest that you try changing the fuse in the plug, in case it's blown. But if it has loose wires drifting around then not only would they be likely to short and (hopefully) blow the fuse which is what it's there for, but if it didn't blow the fuse the whole damn thing might become live which doesn't bear thinking about.

I'll leave all that to the parent folk! I have to preserve my reputation as an arrogant, lazy person for as long as possible.

 

Enjoy your carefree youth while ye may!

I wouldn't call it carefree! You should have heard the language from me earlier today! Not with anybody around to hear it, of course.

What a mission.
These contraptions are supposed to make our lives easier but they have so much more that can go wrong.

Well, let's put it this way: I'd like to kick Henry Hoover in his smug little face. The lazy block of plastic.   

Must be Dempsey's fault......

HE'S A WENTWORTH FOX!!!    

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