This is the washable pre-motor filter in all Dyson cleaners. That meant, for EVERY Vectron, Thunder, Lightning, Fury, and Cyclone XT, as well as the Dry Tech carpet shampooer, Iona had to pay James a small royalty.ĭuring the 1990's, Dyson invented MEMA filters (MEMA stands for Maximum Efficiency Maximum Airflow). Iona Appliances (which became Fantom Technologies), licensed the dual cyclonic patent from James Dyson. The dealer was so desperate for parts, he traded me a refurbished Eureka upright he was gonna sell for $100 dollars, just to get his hands on the parts to fix customer's vacuums. I remember to this day when they went out of business, I had a 2 1/2 yr old Fantom Cyclone XT that needed parts, & of course they were no longer available. Ralph- Yes, the fact they stopped using Dual Cyclone technology was a contributing factor to the company's failure, but ultimately as I stated before it was the warranty claims they had to pay out that bankrupted them.
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The only reason I would explain why you aren't seeing them on shelves in stores as much is I think Euro Pro decided to focus on the Shark line more, & just keep Fantom as a side line.Īnd with regards to Fantom models, I nearly forgot that in addition to the bagged canister, there is also a bagless straight suction Fantom canister, with a turbo brush. William- to my knowledge, Fantom is NOT discontinued by Euro-Pro in either Canada, or the USA either. The fact that the hefty filter was added after early production tells some of the story about bagless machines. The manufacturing quality was pretty good for plastic machines.
In my own experience the earlier Fantom machines weren't too bad. The Euro-Pro I firmly decided not to waste any more time on, so I cut the cord off and sent it to the Goodwill. I guarantee satisfaction for 30 days with the machines I sell it came back and the customer took a Kenmore Easy Clean bagless (and gave me more $) and he's been happy since. I had this machine for quite a while and in my line up of machines for sale, I'd use it as a foil to show buyers "what not to buy." Finally, a man came who would only settle on a bagless and this one was my least expensive. That filter was a joke, just a coarse, thin pad like a kitchen scrubber which was completely ineffective. It's one redeeming quality was that it had a strong headlight, but this enabled you to see the gust of dirt that it would blow out past the final filter upon start-up. The bottom line was there wasn't any remedy for the problem. I wasted a lot of time going through this machine to get it clean, including the motor case. It had no broken parts in appearance "just required a cleaning." Poorly made but worse, poorly designed because filtration was horrible. The machine was whole and working when I got it. It was not in the usual line of country that I recondition and sell but I'd hit a dry spell on intake of product to work on.
My only experience with Euro-Pro was with a Euro-Pro Shark UV209 Pursuit Bagless Upright. There's NOTHING wrong about Fantom/Euro-Pro requiring their products to be mailed back to them for warranty service.Many vac companies, including Dyson, do this. I had one that lasted over 7 years after it was made before it died.for a Fantom, that's pretty good! And about those warranties.well of COURSE people are gonna say that when their warranty is a scam when they abuse their vacuums, like so many ordinary non-collector people do, & then bitch & complain about the company wronging them when they find out abuse is not covered under their warranty.
One of their models, the Fantom Twister line, was very well made, & was outsourced to Sanyo.they had a model that was IDENTICAL. Oh-and one other thing.I beg to differ with you about what Euro-Pro did to Fantom. The Fantom Wildcat, later to be made as the Westinghouse Unplugged, was also another bad model.īottom line.their products broke down, were poorly made, & the costs of warranty repairs put them into bankruptcy. The reason Fantom Technologies, formerly Iona, went out of business was this- their products were JUNK!! Especially the Fantom Lightning canister.that particular model, towards the end, had TONS of refurbished stock available for purchase on the Fantom website.
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