Re: Gap insurance


platypus wrote:
> Guy Fawkes wrote:
> >
> > clearly we COULD make a kettle and a vacuum better than we did in 1950
> > or 1960 or 1970, fact is we DO NOT, you sell less vacuum cleaners and
> > kettles that way.
> >
> > I look forwards to someone explaining to me how a modern kettle is
> > more energy efficient and transforming electricity into heat to boil
> > water than a 30 year old one, and also explaining how a modern vacuum
> > cleaner with a 2000 watt motor is more efficient than a 30 year old
> > hoover with a 500 watt motor that did exactly the same job.
>
> Jug-style kettles with water level indication: you can fill it more
> accurately with only the water you need, so you're not boiling a couple of
> pints to make a cup of coffee, and you get the water you want more quickly.

so if you only want a pint of boiling water it was beyond the wit of
housewives 30 years ago to pour a pint of water IN to the kettle in the
first place????

the graduated sight glass thing predates the kettles you speak of,
rigsby style bolter to the wall above the sink boilers.

>
> Cyclone-type (Dyson and imitators) vacuum cleaners are much more efficient
> than the old style "suck through a paper bag" type.

so 2000 watts is more efficient that 500 watts is it?

I will guarantee you a million pounds tomorrow if you can produce a
vacuum cleaner that does not produce a "cyclone" inside the suction
tube...

several industries the world over will beat a path to your door armed
with blank cheques.


> First, you're not
> sucking it through a paper bag, second,

better throw away your air filters and unlock all that hidden
horsepower, if it takes so much performance out of a lowly 3 hp vacuum
cleaner you'll prolly get an extra 50 bhp at the real wheel on a gixxer
huh

> you don't have a bag to clog so
> suction doesn't drop off like it does as the bag fills up,

yeah, those 60's housewives couldn't simply replace the bag could
they...

> third, you don't
> have the whole manufacture-distribute-use-discard cycle that you have with
> paper bags.

no, you just throw away the entire vacuum cleaner because they are
utter crap and die on you, dyson especially, utter shit

> These cleaners also pick up more dirt,

that is what the advertising would have you believe, but it isn't based
in fact.

you want a vacuum cleaner that does what it says on the tin buy a kirby

> and blow less of it out
> the other end.

you mean those horrible power and efficiency sapping exhaust filters???

shome mishtake shirley...

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