Titan

Found one on the hard rubbish minus the hose and wand and the cord was cut short, looked brand new, not a scratch on it. I needed a vac head for a… Read more

dust separator collector bin project for renovations so put a cord on and checked it over. Brilliant suction but low air volume, connected it up the dust separator bin and it was okay after cleaning the filters thoroughly but it still was low volume and would make a sucking noise like it was leaking somewhere soon after each start. Found the sucking was coming from the valve at the top of the canister for when the hose gets blocked - to save the motor from overheating, stuck a piece of duct tape over that. Thought this is odd must be a blockage in the dust separator hose, checked nope, tore the vac apart and right in the centre tube was a clog of dog hair and a toothpick and a paper v clip, I don’t have a dog and my dust separator doesn’t let anything like a paper clip past so must have been previous owners. After fiddling about with long tweezers got it all out, cleaned the filters again, had a little plaster dust on them, fired it up and suction is three times brilliant - strong enough now to collapse the wall of the dust separator bin so now have to run it with bleed air at the nozzle. Very strong vacuum especially with the filters clean and the safety valve covered. The canister is moulded to look like it has multiple little cyclones Dyson style, it doesn’t have any of those so that’s just plain deception on the manufacturers part making it look like that, just one basic cyclone that’s full of compromises. So far very pleased with how it pulls air through the dust separator bin which is a 99% capture, so I give it 5 stars for value being off the hard rubbish and 5 stars for performance. I don’t know what the wand or tools are like as didn’t get those. What it does have is a soft start circuit, a couple of times it didn’t start and I though okay this is why it put out, it’s only happened twice and hasn’t happened again for ages so we’ll see how it goes. Picked up an Anko $70 vac off hard rubbish last week, also brand new, hardly sucking, had a steel wool pad in exactly the same place as this one’s blockage, removed it and the vac is perfect, no scratches, has the hose and wand including crevice and blinds tools still in original wrappers, and a complete cord. Now I can use each vac to clean the other through the separator bin, makes it very easy to clean the filters. It gets 5 stars for value too.