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  • January 27, 2009 at 4:44 pm #42932
    robinhood
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    Anyone tell me why my wife’s Dyson DC04 drops vacuum intermittently? The way she gets it going again is to whack the cylinder with the palm of her hand with some force.
    The fault is most obvious when vacuuming a “mixed” floor where the machine has to go from, say, carpet to tiles.
    TIA

    January 28, 2009 at 8:33 pm #275415
    kladave
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    Re: Dyson DC04 drops vacuum

    Hi

    serial number would be a help.

    January 29, 2009 at 5:44 pm #275416
    ray.t
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    Re: Dyson DC04 drops vacuum

    Hi Is this a Zorbster dco4? Grey and lilac

    January 29, 2009 at 8:50 pm #275417
    kladave
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    Re: Dyson DC04 drops vacuum

    The switch is faulty inside the motor cover,thus only giving you half power/speed.

    February 3, 2009 at 8:25 pm #275418
    robinhood
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    Re: Dyson DC04 drops vacuum

    kladave wrote:The switch is faulty inside the motor cover,thus only giving you half power/speed.

    Apologies for the late reply.

    Thanks for the excellent advice. I should have looked at bit closer at the machine & I might have spotted the switch 🙂
    I’m hoping that by putting a couple of layers of masking tape on the dust collector to push the switch in further will fix the fault.
    If not, how do you change the switch?


    BTW this is a DC04 Zorbster S/No. 065UK 012155

    February 4, 2009 at 12:14 pm #275419
    kladave
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    Re: Dyson DC04 drops vacuum

    Brush bar out
    Brush housing out
    2x plastic circlips off either side of cleaner head
    Cleaner head off
    Hepa filter out
    6x torx 15 screws out

    You then have access.

    February 4, 2009 at 7:20 pm #275420
    robinhood
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    Re: Dyson DC04 drops vacuum

    That seems a lot of hassle but thanks anyway. I’m glad to say the masking tape fix seems to have worked.
    What’s the switch for? Is it just used to drop the vacuum when the dust collector is taken off?

    February 5, 2009 at 9:28 am #275421
    kladave
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    Re: Dyson DC04 drops vacuum

    No
    It’s to do with the application of the zorb.

    February 5, 2009 at 3:43 pm #275422
    robinhood
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    Re: Dyson DC04 drops vacuum

    Thanks for the info.
    As the zorb feature has never been used I think I’ll leave the tape holding the switch down.

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