[geeks] Vacuum!

[Mike F]

Brian Dunbar wrote:
[snip]
> We have a Rainbow that my wife and her first husband bought nearly a 
> decade ago - still running strong.  We've needed to replace the water 
> container* and It's down after the power cord was severed, waiting for 
> me to solder it together.  When we had our place in Texas it sucked an 
> amazing amount of crud out of the carpets.
> 
> ~brian
> 
> *one of our children thought it, with the wheels attached, would make a 
> keen skateboard, which introduced stress fractures.  The local rainbow 
> guy sold me a new container at cost.

We have a Rainbow also - it's a deceptively simple, but
well-engineered and *very* effective vacuum. It's hard to
justify the price, but with 4 cats in the house, every time
we vacuum, there's about 1 whole cat's worth of hair in
the water container :)