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is everything a hunk of china junk these days...

ryoken

ryoken

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i swear... this country sucks... consumer cheap cheap wallyworld cheap chia pet freakin country...


sorry, my bad...

so x-mas eve i went out and bought myself a ridgid shop vac.. the $79 12 gal one... i had some reservations, but my ridgid chopsaw has been great so i said screw it...

30 days later, freakin sparks are shootin out of the thing.... used it about 1/2 dozen times.. i called homo depot, , i have no receipt and i paid cash, the guy says normally you have to have the box.. hoe ghey is that? ya think after 4 weeks i'm gonna have the box?

i'm gonna bring it over tomorrow morn and wing it at the managers head if they don't replace it... i'll never buy anything there again if they don't replace it.. selling all that proprietary crap over there... :mad:


alrighty, rant off... :haha:
 
Go in...they won't start WWIII over a vac...:thumb:

I'm NOT buying any chinese products after the insults over the past week!
The commies think we're dogs!:whistle:
 
JK5 said:
Go in...they won't start WWIII over a vac...:thumb:

I'm NOT buying any chinese products after the insults over the past week!
The commies think we're dogs!:whistle:
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I don't get that, I love my dogs, more than I can say for a lot of people, lol. I have 3 border collies that sleep on my bed with me. What do they have against dogs?

Now I'm nervous about the Rigid vac I bought a couple years ago now...I did a lot of research and it got better reviews than the Shop Vac brand ones, and the Craftsman ones were getting terrible reviews...I'd love a polyethylene one with thread on hoses. We always break them at work by dropping them off a roof or the zoom boom and the wheel mount cracks the cheap brittle plastic at the bottom. PE would just dent and you could push the dent back out. Guess it really wouldn't be that hard for a guy to make his own though.

Pretty dumb if they won't return it. Isn't Homo Depot the only place that sells Rigid vacs anyway? There aught to be a BOM or something on there that says when it's made. You know a small business would use common sense here and side with the customer, and chew out the manufacturer for selling them bull**** tools. :(
 
i read the same good reviews.... hopefully it was just the occasional fluke and a replacement will live a healthy life... i expect a vac to be plastic, but now i'm questioning if it's got some cheesy taiwanese motor in it...

hopefully the manager or whoever will realize they're gonna lose a good customer.... i'll be glad to blast the he!! out of em in front of the employees if he desires... ;) i'm gonna stop in with it before work tomorrow...
 
ryoken said:
i read the same good reviews.... hopefully it was just the occasional fluke and a replacement will live a healthy life... i expect a vac to be plastic, but now i'm questioning if it's got some cheesy taiwanese motor in it...

hopefully the manager or whoever will realize they're gonna lose a good customer.... i'll be glad to blast the he!! out of em in front of the employees if he desires... ;) i'm gonna stop in with it before work tomorrow...
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Tell them it set fire to your carpet or something, and if they give you lip, tell them you'll have to call the UL headquarters about the safety certifications for this product in the US. Might at least get an entertaining response.
 
Do what I do when the store wont return something. Buy and new one and return the old one in the new ones box for a refund.


:waytogo:
 
Stomis said:
Do what I do when the store wont return something. Buy and new one and return the old one in the new ones box for a refund.


:waytogo:
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I still need to get my money back for that Harbor Freight grinder :whistle:
And those hubs that I can't find the stupid receipt for (who can keep track of a piece of paper that lives in the garage?)
 
the stupid thing about this was, i bought it fri x-mas eve.. what did i get the next day for x-mas? the same exact vac! :doah:

i returned that one for a store credit, as i already had opened mine.. it's a regular shop-vac clusterf*ck around here.... :popcorn: :doah:
 
I'm down to go help you scream at some people at Depot. I havent shaved in a few days and I'll throw some camo pants on and walk in with a sleeveless shirt when its 12* out. They wont **** with us.
 
FWIW my Ridgid shp vac works awesome. When I bought it I made sure to fill out the warranty card and send it in and about a year later Ridgid sent me a notice that there have been some issues and they added a part to resolve the issue and then proceeded to send me that part free of charge. When you want a vacuum to SUCK my Ridgid gets the job done (and before anyone says anything, i'm not talking about for THAT use either, that would be something left up to Dremu). :laugh:
 
Just an FYI - at Home Depot if you pay with a credit card (although I know you didn't) they can look up all the purchases you have made with it without a receipt. Just bring in the product you want to return and your card, and they can swipe your card to find it. Very handy.

Personally, I'd buy a new one, clean up the old one (just the top), swap the top, then return the old one in the box. Swap out everything you can, like the filter, so as many new parts go back in the box. Just tell the cashier it's defective.

Problem solved.

Yelling won't get you anywhere. I used to work retail, and if people were rude to me I'd go out of my way to make them as miserable as possible and refuse to work with them in any way. (I was the manager.) I also told all my employees to send "difficult" customers to me and I'd handle them.
 
4X4HIGH said:
FWIW my Ridgid shp vac works awesome. When I bought it I made sure to fill out the warranty card and send it in and about a year later Ridgid sent me a notice that there have been some issues and they added a part to resolve the issue and then proceeded to send me that part free of charge. When you want a vacuum to SUCK my Ridgid gets the job done (and before anyone says anything, i'm not talking about for THAT use either, that would be something left up to Dremu). :laugh:
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x2 or more like x6

Fellas, and ryoken... I run a cleaning business. I have two Rigid vacuums, one larger plastic one and the metal bin one. Both are the 6.25 hp heads. I have used the plastic one for ~6 years. The metal one has seen duty for ~5 years, though not as much. I used to have a ShopVac, but it started smoking and whining after only 3 years.

Here's an example of how much use the 6year old one gets. I have gone through 3 or 4 pointed tip tubes, because they get worn down. It sees work every Saturday, all year long. Four Saturdays: 3hours, 10hour,3hours,15hours. This is accumulated time over the day, but normally they will run 1hour at a time. If it's a busy day, it will only stop for about 20minutes. We clean several offices, all in one building, so we are moving all day into a different room.

These are very good vacuums folks and I'm sorry to hear about any problems you've had. Take it back, they have a lifetime warranty on them, says so on the box. But for me, I don't need to warranty them, they don't owe me anything. I think mine were $179 or something like that, it's been a while. Completely worth it.

To add to how much I know about them, the other company I work for has me on the a maintenance/ construction crew. They have 3 or 4 Rigid vacuums. Two have no filters and are only used for liquid clean up, the other two stay with filters for dust/sawdust/ etc. We have abused these vacuums MANY MANY times. When 4 blocks of LOS ANGELES dumps it's sewage into our basement, the vacuums were used. This included cleaning out the elevator traps and all clothing storage rooms (40+). When 12 STORYS of building dumps sewage into the basement. When 9 floors all dump sewage out of the 3rd floor old restroom, vacs and trashcans were used. When half the basement is flooded with water, vacs are used, normally ALL of them. These few mentioned events lasted between 1-5 days of straight vacuuming. Drywall dust, saw dust, metal dust, and all in between find their way into the vacs. Don't ask how often the filters are cleaned, more than likely not enough.

Just saying
Not defending China stuff, since I'd like to see more stuff made here and have been disappointed on many occasions (though it seems a lot of USA stuff is junk too)
Just saying, I will continue buying Rigid Vacuums. They are the caddys of vacuums. Or the kings of suck. lol
:waytogo:
 
4X4HIGH said:
When you want a vacuum to SUCK my Ridgid gets the job done (and before anyone says anything, i'm not talking about for THAT use either, that would be something left up to Dremu). :laugh:
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Hey now, I just post up stuff I find amusing... and note the gizmo in question is a purely manual device, not a power tool. Which might explain those Popeye forearms you have Scott! :deal:

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dremu said:
Hey now, I just post up stuff I find amusing... and note the gizmo in question is a purely manual device, not a power tool. Which might explain those Popeye forearms you have Scott! :deal:

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Not sure but I think you have me confused for someone else with "popeye forearms". Regardless, I would rather be known to pound out a good one rather than to use a vacuum. I mean at least then the arms get a workout too you know. :D
 
just an update to this...


homo depot replaced it no questions asked.. and the new one seems to be working fine.... for now... ;)
 
Home Depot does have good service. I take my Rigid band saw blades in for replacement when the welds break...replaced no questions asked. :woot:
 
We bought a Shop-Vac brand from Lowe's, 6 gallon I think. Used it twice and the motor started running slow, getting really hot, and sounded funny. I take it apart and one of the brushes is not making contact with the motor (stator?) and the other one is broken to pieces and about 1/4 as long as the one not moving.

I sent them an e-mail explaining the problem in detail, 6hrs later I had an e-mail verifying my mailing address and 3 days later a complete new motor assembly showed up at the post office, free of charge! It's been fine ever since with the exception that the motor they sent had an updated switch that didn't work with my existing top cover. I swapped out the switch with the old one and it's trucking right along! :waytogo:
 
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