The Radio Shack stores (last time I was in a Radio Shack store around
here a couple of months ago.(Hey,yesterday afternoon,when I went to the
Sears store to buy my new Craftsman wet/dry vacuum cleaner [[i's still
siting in the unopened box in front of my cofee table,5.0 Peak
Horsepower,4 Gallon.I told y'all before I am slowwwwww about opening up
boxes of thingys I buy) and then I cruised the books and magazines at
the Waldenbooks book store,the Radio Shack store is right next door to
the Waldenbooks book store,I forgot all about cruising around in the
Radio Shack store.I guess I might have been thinking about catching that
escalavator up to the second level food court area and flirtin around
with them gals up there.But I thought better of it,so I got back in my
raggity old 1978 Dodge van and I came back home and I unloded my
groceries and my new Sears Craftsman wet/dry vacuum cleaner.Go figure.I
reckon the Radio Shack stores around here still sell Eton radios,but I
dont want one of them.
cuhulin,the Hell,I dont know what I am

wrote:

The Radio Shack stores (last time I was in a Radio Shack store around
here a couple of months ago.(Hey,yesterday afternoon,when I went to the
Sears store to buy my new Craftsman wet/dry vacuum cleaner [[i's still
siting in the unopened box in front of my cofee table,5.0 Peak
Horsepower

I thought the Ethics in advertising people made these people STOP using
fraudulent horsepower claims. Sears Horsepower is a JOKE.

To arrive at their insane figures, they do the following:

a) feed the motor with wires the size of your wrist and a HUGE breaker.

b) lock the rotor to prevent it turning.

c) read the current at it's maximum just before the armature melts down.


They then multiply the nominal, before any load, line voltage times the
locked rotor current to get horsepower figure that you will NEVER see.
It's all BS.

Vacuums are weird things anyway, the more clogged up the hose gets the
less air it allows through. The motor actually works LESS with a clogged
or restricted hose than it does when pumping free flowing (read
'non-vacuuming) air. The thing may get warmer because of a lack of
cooling airflow, not because of greater work being done.

I get roughly THIRTY amps current draw needed to provide a five horse
rating at 120 volts. That would mean, what? Ninety amps starting current?

I wonder why there hasn't been a class action suit over this.

mike

Oh I doubt that my new Sears Craftsman wet/dry vacuum cleaner really
does put out 5.0 peak horsepower,but as long as it will pick up the crud
in my house,what do I care.Of course when I was at the Sears store check
out counter,the guy asked me if I wanted to pay for a three years
extended warranty.I told it has the Craftsman name on it,doesn't it? If
it wont last more than three years,it isn't any good anyway.I will
complain to Bob Vila about it.
cuhulin

On Sat, 8 Apr 2006 01:47:32 -0500, wrote:

Oh I doubt that my new Sears Craftsman wet/dry vacuum cleaner really
does put out 5.0 peak horsepower,but as long as it will pick up the crud
in my house,what do I care.Of course when I was at the Sears store check
out counter,the guy asked me if I wanted to pay for a three years
extended warranty.I told it has the Craftsman name on it,doesn't it? If
it wont last more than three years,it isn't any good anyway.I will
complain to Bob Vila about it.
cuhulin


746 Watts = 1 HP.

http://www.elec-toolbox.com/Formulas...l/formulas.htm

wrote:

Oh I doubt that my new Sears Craftsman wet/dry vacuum cleaner really
does put out 5.0 peak horsepower,but as long as it will pick up the crud
in my house,what do I care.Of course when I was at the Sears store check
out counter,the guy asked me if I wanted to pay for a three years
extended warranty.I told it has the Craftsman name on it,doesn't it? If
it wont last more than three years,it isn't any good anyway.I will
complain to Bob Vila about it.

This Old Hut: Bob Vila was a Peace Corps volunteer.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

wrote:

Oh I doubt that my new Sears Craftsman wet/dry vacuum cleaner really
does put out 5.0 peak horsepower,but as long as it will pick up the crud
in my house,what do I care.


Would you pay big bucks for a television set that claimed to be fifty
inches across but was only seventeen? Would you care? They both have
pictures to watch.....


mike

Bob Vila is A OK.He was born in Cuba,he claims Miami as his home town.He
sure is a weird lookin dude though,but that's OK.But Bob Vila is A OK in
my book.

Years ago,in California,Bob Vila got in the back seat of a Stupid
woman's car.Naturally,he crossed one of his legs on top of his other
leg.He bumped the back of the driver's side of the seat.(haven't we all
done that a million times before? I have) That crazy woman tried to sue
Bob Vila.

y'all want references about that? y'all look it up y'allselfes.Dont take
my word for it.
cuhulin