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Mulching Vacuum

Bagless cleaning.
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The vacuum has standard sucking and brushing configuration. Instead of a bag, the dirt is run through a series of tiny cutting blades. The tiny particles are then mixed with a clear sticky oil and released into the room as a fine heated mist. Evenly distributed the dirt won't be noticed. Once a year, wipe off walls and ceiling.
prune, Feb 11 2002

The Prune Syndrome http://www.halfbake...cy_20test_20tampons
read my thoughts on prune's postings [dj_photon, Feb 13 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004]

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       Yuck! You want moldering toast crumbs plastered on your walls? You'd have to paint all your walls black to hide the dirt.
pottedstu, Feb 11 2002
  

       Never mind the toast, what about the *skin*!? Do you really want sticky, oily skin all over your house? And if you're simply going to redistribute the grime, what, in the name of the wee man, is the point in hoovering in the first place? Hmmm?
salachair, Feb 11 2002
  

       You can buy mulching garden vacuums anyhow, so is this really any different?
pottedstu, Feb 11 2002
  

       I understand cleaning my room as sucking all the dirt off the floor, walls and furniture, into the bag in the vacuum cleaner.   

       Your idea, however, serves to distribute dirt. You would do well to change the description to "bagless dirtying".
neelandan, Feb 12 2002
  

       The very worst thing about this idea is releasing the oily dirt as a heated mist. Even as you vacuumed, you would be sprayed with sheen of your own greasy filth. As Clibean said, boke.
calum, Feb 12 2002
  

       // I take it you haven't yet read his 'internet CD' idea, then?//   

       I gotta give Prune credit for coming up with a lot of original ideas (nb: his "Internet CD" idea actually was baked a few years ago, back when it was actually practical). Too bad so many of them are so incredibly (albeit original-ly) bad.
supercat, Feb 13 2002
  

       I have a gramophone in my house that uses a steel needle with a high tracking force. If all the stuff I hoovered from the carpet got in the groove of the record, it would act as a grinding powder which would wear out the needle within the first 78 revolutions. Then I would have a poor quality record lathe for all the next revolutions. Sticky oil is not good for acetates and one-offs and dubplates.
Amishman35, May 24 2002
  

       Jeez. Jeez. How dumb can you get?
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       This would kill asthmatics like me
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