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Our Dyson's died!
We have a DC05 that has just died. The fuse in the plug is okay but nothing whirrs.
Anyone know how to get in to the damn thing?
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23-03-2005, 15:49
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Re: Our Dyson's died!
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Originally Posted by altis
We have a DC05 that has just died. The fuse in the plug is okay but nothing whirrs.
Anyone know how to get in to the damn thing?
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How long have you left it? Ours has some kind of thermal thingy in it - and if it overheats it springs back into life after a few mins?
Just an idea.
Dunno about taking it apart tho.
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23-03-2005, 15:54
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Re: Our Dyson's died!
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Originally Posted by dilligaf1701
How long have you left it? Ours has some kind of thermal thingy in it - and if it overheats it springs back into life after a few mins?
Just an idea.
Dunno about taking it apart tho.
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that's a good point, dilli, one of ours did the same when I accidently blocked it up - the motor is cooled by the flow of air - and the thermal cutout kicked in.
It took ages before it reset, as well - nearly 2 hours IIRC.
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23-03-2005, 15:56
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Re: Our Dyson's died!
It's also worth noting that if any of the air filters (hepa filters) are blocked, the Dyson will shut down.
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23-03-2005, 16:09
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Re: Our Dyson's died!
You could get the dodgy new one with the big ball at the bottom.
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23-03-2005, 16:11
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Re: Our Dyson's died!
Yes, I Killed our DC07, we were having lots of building work done and I used it to vac up all the builders dust.
Warning: Don't use you Dyson to vac up fine dust.
It lost suction and kept overheating. I stripped down the top of it were the cyclones are formes and found it all blocked with plaster/cement dust that had hardened. I cleaned it all out but it wasn't the machine it used to be.
It kept cutting out and last month finally died.
So I bought another one, same model only £150 - BARGAIN.
Forget about trying to get into the motor.
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23-03-2005, 16:21
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Re: Our Dyson's died!
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Warning: Don't use you Dyson to vac up fine dust.
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 its a vacume cleaner designed for sucking dust? 
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23-03-2005, 16:34
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Re: Our Dyson's died!
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You could get the dodgy new one with the big ball at the bottom.
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Got a thing about balls today, have we?  
Yep, leave it to cool down for a couple of hours, make sure the filters are clean, if not then best let it go to that vacuum cleaner heaven in the sky 
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23-03-2005, 16:34
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Re: Our Dyson's died!
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Yes, I Killed our DC07, we were having lots of building work done and I used it to vac up all the builders dust.
Warning: Don't use you Dyson to vac up fine dust.
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He's right it does suck dust, but it does not like plaster dust.
We had this problem with our DC07 Animal - no loss of suction pah.
You need to pull the filters out and wash them or replace them - most Dysons have washable filters. The blue one once soaked the water was running like sloppy plaster out of it. Dry them on a radiator and hope the thermal cut out cuts in.
How old is it - they come with a two year wwty as default.
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23-03-2005, 16:41
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Re: Our Dyson's died!
Getting into them normally just requires a set of star bits, you know, the type manufaturers use to keep us out of their equipment but unfortunately you can by from screwfix etc Not that I've ever had to get inside a Dyson to rewire it after someone yanked the lead once too often 
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23-03-2005, 16:43
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Re: Our Dyson's died!
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Yep, leave it to cool down for a couple of hours, make sure the filters are clean, if not then best let it go to that vacuum cleaner heaven in the sky |
Like our DC05 did... 
After the amount of hassle that thing gave us, I was quite happy to replace it with a Vax upright (£99.00 at Tesco), which has all the features of the Dyson, doesn't seem to lose suction much and is also far more powerful than the dyson. The downside is it sounds like a hovercraft (and if you've ever been to Dover, you KNOW how loud those are).
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23-03-2005, 16:43
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Re: Our Dyson's died!
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its a vacume cleaner designed for sucking dust? |
An 'ordinary' hoover will allow fine dust to escape back into the air - as some have found trying to hoover up spilt toner, the Dyson design traps it all, but fine stuff will clog it quicker.
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Re: Our Dyson's died!
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Originally Posted by skunk4u
its a vacume cleaner designed for sucking dust? |
An 'ordinary' hoover will allow fine dust to escape back into the air - as some have found trying to hoover up spilt toner, the Dyson design traps it all, but fine stuff will clog it quicker. |
Ye gads you don't want to be hoovering toner up with a standard hoover  One of the Konica techs caught someone at the college doing it and he nearly soiled himself as he's seen toner spontaneously combust due to someone using a bog standard hoover to pick it up
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23-03-2005, 16:54
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Re: Our Dyson's died!
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Like our DC05 did...
After the amount of hassle that thing gave us, I was quite happy to replace it with a Vax upright (£99.00 at Tesco), which has all the features of the Dyson, doesn't seem to lose suction much and is also far more powerful than the dyson. The downside is it sounds like a hovercraft (and if you've ever been to Dover, you KNOW how loud those are). |
Yay! I have a Vax Luna 1300 - beats any Shi-son I've used hands down, and cost about £60 less when brand new.... plus, what was the colour designer on when he created the look for dysons???? 
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23-03-2005, 17:04
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Re: Our Dyson's died!
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Ye gads you don't want to be hoovering toner up with a standard hoover One of the Konica techs caught someone at the college doing it and he nearly soiled himself as he's seen toner spontaneously combust due to someone using a bog standard hoover to pick it up |
hmm finely divided carbonaceous material & heat & static - sounds like an potential explosion, to me, too
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