Question for Dyson fans: filters

I never normally see anything in the mains Dyson post-motor filters, no muck normally gets that far. In the DC04 and DC07, it's not even easily removed - I think it's not expected to be cleaned or changed during the life of a motor. The exception is where the pre-motor filter is missing (which normally happens only with a cleaner which is never emptied or maintained, and heavily abused). For Dysons which have had enough use to significantly wear the motor brushes, you can sometimes see slight traces of that in the post- motor filter.

I used a Dyson (can't remember model, but about 15 years ago) at a friend's place. There were complaints about cleaning the filters so I took it outside, removed the various filters, found out which places sucked and whick blew, then put the filters, one at a time, on backwards where they'd fit quite well and pressed the button. Nice big clouds of dust and filters clean enough to restore suction.

It takes several days to dry our little Dyson DC26 filters after washing even on top of a radiator. You method sounds far more practical.

Hmmm, odd. I usually do our DC35 filter every four to six months, they only take a day to dry.

The Dyson DC26 instructions say it takes a day (in sunlight if the illustration is to be relied on) but it takes much longer.

Perhaps the filter materials are different between models.

Depends heavily on how well you wring them out.

OP here (and I didn't get much response on my original question, which was about getting "stuff" out of the motor filter when I wash it -- in my case, nothing.)

But since the thread has swerved ... I agree with Andrew: I wring mine out vigorously, hang them in the sun (hahahahaha) if possible, or in the airing cupboard -- dry in a day.

This wonderful chap -- who taught me how to change the switch on my Dyson last week -- seems to say that he shoves his filters in the washing machine .... but I may have misheard what he says (last 5 mins of vid is about cleaning the machine):

(*fantastic* example of vacuum abuse -- he's fixing the poor thing for a friend)

John