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I have taken apart and repaired countless things throughout my 56yrs. in life and I got to say that this vacuum was the most pain in the ass thing I have come a crossed so far. Your video was very helpful. Thank you

Needed to see the disassembly kinda misses the point if I'm going to repair it ... smh

Planned obsolescence, unfortunately. This thing is so expensive, I’m determined to get it going again. Thank you for the video!

WTH. Didn't show disassembly

We owned a smaller "Apartment" Dyson... would not "suck" up anything... After a few years... of it not working every time I wanted to use it. I tossed it off my balcony... and man did it feel good when it hit the ground. It was tough, only the wheel cover came off. I owned a Kirby G4 for years.... and they are built to service... and keep. Best money I ever spent. My wife has major back problems, so she cannot use it. She just cannot lift it. For me, or the strong; it is great. We own a Shark now. She Love's it, and can use it... and best of all... cannot kill it. I loved your review, and I just am so amazed at the mess... almost throw away design. Most folks could not repair that. Anyway, fun video.

Should have name this vid "I bitch about Dyson for 20:18."

Good Lord!! LOL - love the fast forward with the music! Watching this reminds me of a little story someone told me: The U.S. spent so many millions of dollars making an ink pen that would write in space, while the Russians simply brought pencils.....

Thanks for this video.... have you found any Mylar HD replacement cable for this?.. would probably be a great aftermarket nitch item .. not that there would be a huge market I don't guess at this point given the age of these machines...

The clutch assembly has 2 belts, a motor belt and a roller belt. what is the part # for the motor belt?

OK, guess we need to tear down an old computer and find some cables and hope the ends aren't destroyed when we make them fit the DC28 or try to use the old ends. (and what did you super glue together?) the difficult part is disassembling the vacuum LMC and nozzle housing which you blow through at fast forward. what was the time frame for the complete repair? I would guess a couple hours the second time. I assume that the harness you repair is not the one sold by dyson as there are no parts available to repair the nozzle head?

thanks for the video, I had the red blinking light issue. tracing it down now. I will have to disagree with you though, I have had this thing almost 8 years and it has never lost suction on me and gets the job done. I got tired of buying a new vacuum every year...

So, I can't replace the belt separately?

Breakdowns mean jobs!! for certified Dyson repairman. 😃

Thanks for the video. I own one and have been told by a vacuum repair shop to throw it out as I broke the drive belt assembly. Doesn’t spin the roller. Smokes. You said the head assembly was a 100.00 plus. Guess I’ll look for a better built used vac. Do you agree?

What vacuum are you using now

Hey z i have a question. I have gotten the dc28 fully disassembled to the ribbon cable in question. do you have the names of the end connectors so I can order them on amazon and also a Mylar cable or computer ribbon cable you may suggest as well? I don't mind paying a little more for the mylar if possibe

how does one change the belt for the beater brush?? Trying to start with easy fixes for my dc28 with all lights plus red one flashing and brush not turning.

Z nice video. you know the Maytag repairman was always lonely, but I bet you could be the face for the "Dyson vortex" repairman.

I've run a Dyson DC28 Animal and my wife has abused it and overfilled it, and it's never failed. Until now as my wife tried doing stuff with a vacuum they are not suppose to do lol.

I can't get the head released from upright position to vacuum with beater bar. Any suggestions!!

Thanks, most knowledgeable video. I drove myself crazy, need a new vac is the outcome

Great music Z. That vacuum really sucks, lmao. Not on my to buy list. That would have ended up in the local dump if it was mine. Simple is always better. How are you doing Z, good to see you making another video. Just finished my mid drive electric bike. Love it.

how to make it reliable take all the boards out of it you will loose height adjustment every hard drive cable plug the small hole on motor and take the servo with the clutch turn it in till its tight gorilla glue the gears so it wont disengage solder black wire from man board to main black from power do the same with the common and you now have a good vacuum!!!

I've an old Riccar 1400 canister vac. Four screws & you can replace any part in the beater head. In over 20 years I've only had to replace the hose once & I needed some parts for the head. But decided to replace the head instead. The replacement head cost less than $100. I paid $250 for the vacuum 20 years ago. I've heard some real bad things about the Dyson. The repair shop says they keep him in business. LOL BTW the head automatically adjust for carpet height without a muscle...LOL

fantastic machine.... when it works

Yup , NASA over complicated comes to my mind.. .BUT seriously the most powerful vaccum I have ever tested/used. Next time Im just going to bring it to a TECH FIXER guy.

Thanks I enjoyed the video I learned a lot I think I would just end up replacing mine would be cheaper one

Could you do some Tesla experiments that haven't been done properly.

Only a minute through the fast-forward portion, and this just looks like it's not worth it to me.

Mr Dyson is all about making money. He doesn't care about reliability and quality which is evident in this video. Dyson just wants the owner to 'upgrade' to the latest Dyson every few years.

It poorly designed, not over engineered. I worked on one where the PCB board was in the air duct. Did the engineers ever think about static electricity? Or just the just dust alone? Guess what fail on that one? Then some of the newer Dyson use cheap plastic that connect to main switch that breaks, how I trashed picked my last one. I hate Dyson’s and don’t get why people pay as much as they do for them.

😆 you're alright 😆

Thanks GOD no one every bought me one of those things, maybe it was designed for sucking up Martian dirt in zero gravity ?

Remember, "it just sucks dirt".

The parts where you are doing the taking apart should be slow and explained. That’s what people need help with. It doesn’t help for you to show us that you know how to do it if you don’t show us how we can do it at home

50% of the video is this guy complaining about the poor design. It's likely most viewers are probably trying to fix their vacuum and already know it's a POS design. The remaining 50% of the video is high speed clips of this guy disassembling & repairing the unit head, no useful information can be gleaned from the presentation. There's no value to this video.

I’m responding to your response on my Comment that I took down a while back here.👇 “Do yourself a favor, throw it away, buy a shark and be happy” No, absolutely not! I love my DC28 Airmuscle so much that I will never trash it or get rid of it by any means whatsoever in anyway shape or form. Adamant Decision: I’m not getting rid of it! The point I was making is how can anyone tell by how your repairing the vacuum when the procedure is Timelapsed. Does it ever occur to you that there might be enthusiasts watching this video because they are interested in how to refurbish it? Your audience can’t tell how you are doing the repairs due to the Timelapse in this video. You’re also hardly showing how the repairs are being done because of it. Perhaps you can show this without the Timelapse and show us close up on how the repairs are being done.

My gf bought 1 off Facebook for 50.00 What a great deal... off course she didn't make sure it worked before hand... never seen such a pain in the ass to work on... Not a great deal after all

based on the content of this video, you overengineered the repairs more than Dyson overengineered the vacuum cleaner. the flashing lights in the switches, according to the manual, mean the cam assembly is blocked or jammed. 99% of the time all you have to do is clear out the cam assembly of accumulated dust and hair, not disassemble the entire vacuum because you "know" what's wrong beforehand. You can see at 7:35 a big ole dust bunny fly off the cam without you even realizing it. You fixed the problem by accident without knowing! Not to mention the lack of any visible damage to the cable itself. If you knew what you were doing this could have been a 5-minute fix, but you overcomplicated it about as much as possible. While unnecessary, the adjustable height roller and the air muscle are useful features. The adjustable height allows the vacuum to be used effectively on every type of carpet from short pile rugs and mats to more lush long pile carpets and the air muscle helps to keep the brush head in good contact with the floor surface so the bristles have a chance to get deep into the carpet fibers instead of just getting the tops like can happen with some vacuums. They're certainly not critical features but they can be useful on some surfaces.

What's with the intro? You do know it's 2016 don't you?

Too bad you never say what is broken

Its british what you expect.

I've had this vacuum since released and have never had this issue even with near daily use. You make a few mistakes in the short portion I watched. the filters are a pre and post motor filter. I have no idea why you would think the post motor HEPA filter is for filtering parts of the brushes? as I write that I assume maybe you were referring to the motor brushes but even so, the HEPA filter takes out much more than just that as evidenced by what looks to be ruined filters on your unit that definitely need replacing. shouldn't be black if you've been doing the maintenance properly. You keep referring to the device as overengineered but I think it is more so you have an overly simplistic view of what it takes to make a quality vacuum that doesn't exhaust dust back into the air. I'm not sure what your wife is doing with the vacuum to keep breaking it, but tell her to calm down and not spend an hour rocking it back and forth from locked upright to unlocked. you shouldn't be replacing that cable with hard drive cable after going through all that trouble to fix the neglected vaccine. why not make a more durable cable from some high strand wire and stop using the wrong cable to replace it. most HDD cable I've taken apart is single strand copper which you DO NOT WANT. One crack and it's done. Use something, anything, with a strand count above 1 and problem solved. now when she abuses the thing and a strand breaks, it won't matter. over engineered would have not used a harness but wireless to communicate control to brushbar or modulated the air to transmit information. dynson vacuums are sold on engineering, it is how he started everything and continues to this day. you want a simple vacuum, buy one. Dyson vacuums definitely aren't for you if you insist on simplified versions of technology with their problems and all.

Truth in advertising for Dyson would be “DYSON’S SIMPLY SUCK... AT BEING A DEPENDABLE VACUUM CLEANER”.. I fixed my Dyson DC28. I put it in the landfill where it was destined to be.. What a colasssal piece of CRAP ! Too heavy, too loud and too much money..

You actually can take out the beater bar on a DC28, you just need to detach the cleaner head in order to access the high torque clutch and loosen it up and then pry out the beater bar and replace it. You can replace the beater bar it’s just requires extreme patience and twice the effort of other Dyson models. So instead of replacing the entire cleaner head, you can rebuild it with a new beater bar.

*THAT VACUUM SUCKS !*

Whines through the whole video and doesn't solve the problem just sets it up for failure again.

Frankly YOU commit exactly the same mistake as Mr Dyson, so why are YOU not better than MR. DYSON. Why put the same cable in Time after time? when you know….. it does not hold, why make the same mistakes again and again, where is your development, When you know the answer to the problem …. so get rid of PROBLEM, instead of repeating the same mistakes again and again. Sorry I don't get it

You showed me nothing worst video ever seen for repair

Okay so aside from this guy complaining constantly what is the point of this video because you basically fast forwarded through the most important parts "showing people how to disassemble the vacuum" 🙄 useless video