Vacuums Reviews

I'm a coffee lover and go to some lengths for good coffee ...

First, I got a Thermos TherMax (be sure it's the TherMax and the one(s) that state they keep hot hot or cold cold for 24 hours ... those are the really good ones ...
... bottom line, those (the 24 hour models) flatly work.

So I make enough coffee to fill it ... and my lady friend who loves high quality tea same goes ... I make mine and take with because very few places I go have even decent coffee or tea, much less made the way I make it ... top end.

Now I'll offer a few specifics that make it absolute perfection ...

I use Peet's brand coffee and tea (I've tried most high end brands, and find Peet's to be the absolute, without question best ... further more than 50 of our friends who try it at our homes or office are all dedicated Peet's fans ... it's just the best)

Filter your water ... I've researched, tried, the best is a Omni Brand filter (found commonly at Menards and home stores) ... you want one with a .5 Micron filter that get's all the stuff (5-6 major areas) but does not strip the minerals (otherwise your water doesn't taste or brew well ... coffee and tea react with the minerals, so a reverse osmosis system isn't ideal, nor is distilled water). Great water is a must for great coffee and tea.

Brew it in a french press (seperate ones for tea and coffee, don't mix) ... Bodum's are great, glass is best

Temperature ... coffee should be brewed with water about 200-205 (not boiling, it burns the coffee) Tea on the other hand should be made with boiling water (the hot water a restaurant uses in a coffee pot isn't hot enough, isn't high quality, usually the tea isn't either, and it sucks). ALSO NOTE RE TEA ... with quality tea, you make the first cup, then use the leaves and try cup 2, cup 3 ... see which is best, and there are differences (usuallly dark teas are better after the first cup) ... more info on this on the Peets site.

BOTTOM LINE ... the Thermos Thermax products work great, and if you like great coffee and teas (and do the extra's to do it well) they will keep it hot and fresh, fantastic!!!

Nice and sturdy looking and keeps coffee hot for over 8 hours.

Be smarter than me and save your money! Description of this vacuum sounds so great I went against my better judgement "if it is too good to be true..." Motor is loud and exhaust spread dust away from vacuum. If you have pets, you see those hairs running for corners. And Hepa filter can be washed only up to 3 times. It is very hard to clean filter, and it is dirty job. Hepa replacement cost 10 dollars--am I nuts to keep feeding bad product? I got rid of it. Eureka is part of the problem of environmental polution by creating this kind of throw aways. From what I read only commercial Eurekas are any good.

I just bought this at Target yesterday and used it today for the first time. I love that it is lightweight. I am 7 months pregnant and I am happy that I am not straining myself with my heavy vacuum I keep upstairs. I use this one for my wood floors in the downstairs part of my house. It cleaned up all the cat hair and dust and has great suction. I only gave it 4 stars because I wish the handle was a little longer, I am tall so it kind of makes me bend more and the cord can be a little longer. It is also very loud, but I don't mind because it does its job. All in all I like this a lot and the cheap price it is makes it even more worth it..

I own a Hoover Savvy that is going into the shop for the third time in the eight months I have owned it. I bought this little Eureka to get me by while my Hoover is in the shop. What a great little vacuum! It is picking up all the dog hair the Hoover has left behind. If the Boss lite works this good I can only imagine what the full size will do!

Grizzly is great. Good product, excellent priced, literally shipped overnight.

Ignore all the losers whining about how grizzly didn't sell them a $130 hose reel for the $1.10 the was mistakenly posted for about 15 minutes on Grizzly and Amazon. Or better yet, read them all and laugh that they would even put their name to a post whining about being "cheated" out of what was "rightfully theirs".

I followed T.S.'s advice and bought the competing product. It was a little tricky to find, because it's actually called the CleanStream filter, by Gore. It really does fit beautifully.

The HEPA filter works great but is limited to only dry pick-up and using an expensive special paper bag which does make for easy clean up but does limit versatility.

I bought a Cleanair Gortex HEPA filter from Lowes for $29.99 that fits the Red-Coded Craftsman vacuums. This forms a perfect seal and works for wet and dry pick-up. You only need to either plug the hole in the bottom of the filter with a plastic plug you can get at Lowes or any car parts store or use a 3/8" x 2.5" carriage bolt, nylon washer, and wing nut to more securely fasten the filter. Better filter, better price, easier wet/dry vacuuming.

When you buy a woodworking tool, the manual doesn't warn you, but if you do a bit of research you'll discover that prolonged exposure to finer dust (smaller than 1 micron, or the size of smoke particles) can lead to sinus and lung problems; some serious. Most shop vacuums come with filters that retain dust as small as 5 microns (a piece of copier paper is about 100 microns thick). If you want to protect yourself, you need a HEPA filter, which will retain particles smaller than 1 micron.

This filter is pretty expensive, but without it, why buy the vacuum? For woodworking and sanding, a shop vacuum without a HEPA filter is probably a waste of money.

Commercial dust collectors large enough for larger power tools, that remove particles smaller than 2 microns, are not yet available at home shop prices. So even with a HEPA filter, if you're using a power saw, planer, etc., you should also wear a respirator with HEPA filters and have something to clean your shop's air before it goes into the rest of your house (and before you remove your respirator). The alternative is to shell out more than the cost of the power tool for a suitable industrial grade dust collector, or to build your own (there are instructions and parts on the Internet).

Unfortunately this product did not work at all. Nice idea no performance. Stick with the VaccuVin.

I purchased the Rabbit vacuum pump in December, 2003. I have used it several times a week since then. One of its flimsy plastic arms broke several days ago. I tried to contact its parent company, Metrokane, for several days since then. I've tried telephoning them several times and all I get is voice mail. I've sent them an e-mail without response. I've since purchased a Vacu-Vin Concerto pump and I am very happy with it. It creates a much better vacuum than the Rabbit Lever Pump. It costs less ($19.95 vs. $30.00) and I bet the company is more responsive. In general, I think their products are inferior. Their wine opener is much less expensive than comparable bottle openers such as the Lever-Pull, but they break and the Lever-Pull lasts.

Metrokane Rabbit Lever Vacuum Pump works with the majority of wine bottles. The trick is to force it tightly down to the top of the wine bottle and hold it down while pumping back and forth very slowly until you feel the vacuum take effect.