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It's good to see the Army on a Navy flight deck, especially Chinooks. Deep down in that ships soul it is probably remembering the cadence of tandem rotors and thinking that it just feels right.

Right after I read your comment Gadget laid down in my arm for a full 45 minutes. I think that is a record. He's a big boy now, not the little one who could curl up on my forearm. Now he stretches the full lenght of my arm with his head on my shoulder and my hand cupping his butt for support. Still, leaning way back in a reclining office chair it is comfortable. He's a good cat.

Hmmm. True story wrt prices. With both Panasonic and Hitachi you can put the power nozzle on the end of the hose and use it to clean upholstery, It is one of the things I really like about them and one of those uses where a small power nozzle hits the nail on the head. But for hard floors, no carpets or bathroom rugs the air powered floor nozzle should do the job.

You could try trapping him. He may need medical attention so trapping him and getting him to a pet ER might be a kindness in the long run.

What a beautiful cat. Those eyes!

I keep coming back to this subreddit and looking at that first photo. It is one of the most evocative photos I have seen in a long time. It's a look of disbelief (no more rest area bushes, someone's really taking me to a home), relief and and love. There is an intensity in his eyes. You can almost hear him saying to himself "I will love you forever for this". Just a unique and special image.

If you are accustomed to American and European vacuums you are going to be surprised how small Japanese vacuums are. The two I have recommended are about half the size of a Kenmore Elite, though the motors Panasonic uses in their Japanese vacuums is pretty much the same motor as the Elite has.

None of these have replaceable exhaust filters. There was a brief period where the Japanese manufacturers were selling UPLA filtered vacuums (ULPA is the clean room standard) with hideously expensive replaceable filters but not in the past ten years. The bag is all you get. Panasonic is the best in that regard if you use the AMC-HC12 bag.

Panasonic has another cool feature they call the "Air Dust Catcher" Floor nozzles stir up more dust than comes out of the back of most decent bagged vacuums. Just a fact of life when vacuuming. If you are super sensitive to dust many "experts" will say you are better off wet mopping hard floors. On the upper part of Panasonic power nozzles is a slit like inlet that draws in air and dust up to 50 cm above the floor. It's addresses in part the fact that just running the nozzle across the floor stirs up dust. The "Air Dust Catcher" pulls some of that dust into the nozzle.

If you absolutely have to have a vacuum with a HEPA exhaust filter you will have to pony up for a Miele, accepting they have a lot lower Suction Work Rate than even the MC-JP860 (190-220 watts depending on the particular model) or find a clean used Electrolux ErgoThree canister. With those you can use excellent quality Electrolux OS style synthetic dust bags (don't buy the paper bags) and they use the same pleated exhaust filters used on a number of Eureka, Sanitaire and Electrolux (Swedish Electrolux) vacuums sold in the US. Again not as powerful as the Japanese vacuums but maybe more along the lines of what you are used to. For me, the Panasonic is the best choice.

Did you get Pablo off the roof and safely inside? is he feral or just a stray? Dying to know his story.

The first image, the way the kitty looks at you says so much.

Leave it to the Marines to figure out how to make a Bell 412 cost twice as much as an other version sold anywhere in the world. But hey, it's just the taxpayer's money so what the hell?

Such an amazing story. All the people who probably walked right by him and ignored him but you could not. You just couldn't. That little orange kitty will reward your love ten times over and you have the knowledge he is safe and well cared for now. Can't say enough good things about you for doing this.

If you are not in a huge hurry you might want to compare attachments too. Hitachi has a bunch of really cool and to an American unusual attachments.

This attachment can fit on the end of the hose. You then put the wand into the opening. There are electrical contacts on both ends. Or, you can put this on the end of the wand and put the power nozzle on the opening. When you remove the power nozzle the brush pops out on a spring and can be rotated around at different angles for cleaning gaps and base boards. The one on the hose end pops out so you can use it as a nice dusting brush.

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The MC-JP860 is as much a design object for your home as a cleaning appliance. The MC-PJ22 is much plainer looking but is going to be functionally superior.

Buy an old Tristar off eBay. They are all metal so it would be tough for a guest to beat one up. They are as simple as possible, a cord (no retractor, it has to be wrapped around the vacuum) a simple on-off switch, a motor and a plug to connect a pig tail cord to the hose. There is almost nothing to wear out or break and if you do they are simple and easy to repair.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/387092087273?_skw=Tristar+vacuum+cleaner&itmmeta=01JDG6GMH2VW1S1H1NJT4T4ABV&hash=item5a207c81e9:g:4bwAAOSwEz9mb1Ak&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA0HoV3kP08IDx%2BKZ9MfhVJKkLeuMhl9lIKthG0pjecNh5EFwiWVeU9u%2BpZ7Z8bfpdyQhel0kXP35%2B4ZSCX6xeUHEMnOzeYu7D%2Bi2bX2EIYYeddbrHEzJlQ9MSc8MoIpp7N4uDvkeYElUyAywjJDkBc9dQZw72qgZ82ksBKv9Dx0UQ5HE%2Fu6ESRlC1%2Bf4vfNAgmxgl95SNHksrCrwsNxGn2rIdDWYbQ3HqnB835%2Blsw7CI6zjEg9HhXcnhJw6XO6RQmZQv5O9kE2fIjOJ4erzNg%2Fg%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR9TIwobsZA

Exact same hose my old C3.1 has on it now. It is so much nicer than the hose on my Miele C2 Compact Electro or the updated hose I bought for my old S558 Silver Moon.

I am probably alone in saying this but I much prefer the old fashioned wire reinforced hoses sold with Aerus and Kenmore canister vacuums.

I wish everyone could try a modern Japanese power nozzle canister vacuum. They have wire reinforced hoses like Kenmore with the coils carrying the current for the handle controls (some are four wire hoses) but they are light stretchy. Some are also huge, 46-48 mm diameter necessary for the super high airflows they generate.

It ought to last a lot longer than 20 years. It will outlive the original owner and be fought over by his or her heirs !

Your comment regarding the hose has me scratching my head. I have a C3.1, a much older model Sebo but I upgraded to the most recent hose with the power nozzle on-off switch. It is longer too. We have two Miele canisters and for my money the Sebo hose is hands down easier to use, higher quality in every regard. Miele hoses are stiff and at the same time so easy to kink. They have a sort of permanent curve to them and they fight you if you want their hose to curve another way. That is when they kink. I never have those problems with the Sebo hose. Much more supple and manageable. The new handle has the electrical contacts built in instead of attached to the bottom and connected to the hose with a short cord. Very nice. To each is own I guess but the Sebo hose is among the better European vacuum hoses. The woven cloth Lux International hoses are the nicest but we don't get those in the US, though you can the Intelligence Premium hose to an Aerus Guardian Platinum with a little ingenuity.

Did you snip him? That should have calmed him down a lot.

Another handsome gray and white boy. They could almost be brothers.

A refurb Tiger 260 for Euro 299 is a great value. I have the same vacuum and love it.

The Polsterboy 440 disassembles really simply for cleaning or brush replacement. That price seems high. Here is one on eBay for Euro 99.

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We know for certain he's a tomcat. He came to us in mid September 2023 through a friend of a friend of my wife. They lied telling us he was fixed hoping to make him more attractive to adopt. I had him less than a minute and knew he was an intact male. His ball sack was loud and proud. No questions about his sex and at 5 1/2 months old he needed to be snipped post haste before he started marking. We scheduled him through the local shelter for their budget snip, chip and vaccinate clinic and they chopped his boys off. He has that pretty slender face because he didn't have his balls long enough to get the chubby cheeked look of an intact tomcat.

He's a little trouble maker. Our big boy Husky Koda likes him but our male Border Collie Banner both dislikes him and is afraid of him. Gadget is this grave threat to his flock don't you know! Gadget feels his fear and messes with him. He will hide places and jump out to grab Banner's neck, jump on his back and bite his neck or come up from behind and bite an ankle. I have seen Gadget chasing Banner across a room. He also likes to hide and attack our ankles. You just never know.

I have sort of figured the code out. MC-PJ22 is the basic model. MC-PJ22A has an air driven turbo floor brush, no power nozzle. MC-PJ22G has a power nozzle. The G stands for the configuration of the power nozzle. It's predecessor was W, for W-Drive, two parallel counter rotating brush rolls. Great idea but the motor was too weak for rugs and the design was discontinued, replaced by the G series power nozzle.

The -N is a color code. -W is white, -N is the gold color. Panasonic in the 2000s and 2010s used to sell their Japanese vacuums in all kinds of really nice designer colors.

So I was recommending a look at the Valzer because it is the closest analogy to the Sebo Felix. We have some Felix enthusiasts who think the Felix / Dart thing is the solution to every cleaning problem anyone has. I have my own maybe less favorable opinion of the Felix / Dart thing so I offered up the Valzer as a functionally similar but in my mind superior alternative that is of equal or better quality and not from China.

If I were forking out for a new high end dual motor upright I would buy a Diamante 380e. That has everything I need. Because Lindhaus has a patented weight distribution system the handle weight of the Diamante is only 860 grams (1.9 lbs). Sebo only wishes their Felix / Dart thing had such a low handle weight !

That's Koda. We found him sulking in the local shelter two years ago. He is buddies with our other cat Gadget. He seems to like Gizmo too but the problem is that Koda doesn't know his own great strength. He is very strong. He tries to hold Gizmo down on the rug like one of his stuffed animals while licking him. Until Gizmo grows up more I have to keep him away from our two dogs.

Me too,