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(More customer reviews)Ordered the "pet lover" mighty mite to replace a mighty mite smart vac that just burned out after 10 years of service.
The unit I received indeed has facilities to attach a hepa filter, but the vacuum exhaust does not all go through the filter. I felt air blowing out near the front of the handle/on-off switch area, so I took the unit apart hoping that a gasket was misaligned or something. Unfortunately, I found that the unit was NOT built in a way so that the exhaust air would be forced through the hepa filter. SOME air goes through the filter, but compared to my old unit, most of it does not.
I then took apart my old unit (with the burned out motor), and confirmed that it indeed WAS designed/built so that the exhaust could only go through the hepa filter. I might have kept the "pet lover" if the shroud used to seal the exhaust of the old unit fit onto the motor of the new unit, but no such luck.
Worse still, is the fact that a lot of people have probably been using the Eureka "pet lover" - falsely thinking they were being protected from spewing micro-particles/allergens/etc... into the air they were breathing.
If you don't care about the hepa filtration, then you might as well save your money and buy one of the non-hepa mighty mites, although I'm not sure how much to trust this company with anything after seeing this.
I'm grateful to Amazon for making this item easy to return, and hope they can pass the shipping/handling charges back to Eureka.
I debated whether to use Amazon's handy links to report unsafe merchandise. I think this product COULD be considered unsafe for someone with asthma or allergies who thinks they're minimizing their exposure to things which could affect their breathing.
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