Here's a Dustbuster Design Flaw That's Been Driving Me Crazy for Years!

Videre est credere.

True, the Dustbuster model in the video must be 15 or more years old but it still works fine — albeit optimally only after I put gaffer tape or duct tape around the intersection of the (mostly transparent) lower motor housing and the upper intake portion.

But wait — there's another FAIL designed into this version along with the many iterations that have been introduced in the decade or two since: the extension portion of the intake, though engineered with what purports to be a locking function, FAILs miserably if you ram the end of the device into a wall or hard surface.

Instead of staying locked, it recedes into the fixed portion of the intake.

This can be remedied by, once again, employing circumferential gaffer or duct tape to increase the friction between the moving and fixed parts to render them static.

My belief is that Black & Decker has a whole succession of improvements ready to bring out on a regular basis such that the company can proudly claim that every year its signature machine gets better.