I owned 3 Mighty Mites over the last 2+ decades. Loved all 3. The last one worked great for about a decade. I use it in my service business as both a hose vac and in seconds could switch the hose around to the back side for a powerful blower to dislodge dust that a vacuum attachment would never find. With the thin attachment on the end of the hose, the blow power was just short of an air compressor.
After a spell of not being able to find a new Mighty Mite, I was pleased to see that a new model, less sleek in design, and yellow in color was available in the current 2010 market. I bought it. Today was it's test run. Vacuumed fine, plenty of suction. But when I went to try the blower I was in a panic. It has about 1/5th the blow power that my previous Mighty Mites had. Surely enough to blow out a candle, but that's about it. Probably less air flow than a hair drier. I spent some time to see if maybe I connected it wrong. No. What I did notice is that much of the air was escaping from the back end before it even got to the blower connection. exactly where all the escape holes were I could not tell, but my first suspect was someplace in the area of the large wheels.
This new version of Mighty Mite is truly a disappointment if you had plans to use the blower function. If I had to take a wild guess as to why the blower is useless, it would be that possibly the motors were burning up and the manufacter had to unseal the back end of the case to allow more air flow around the motor. The outgoing air seems twice as hot as previous Mighty Mites. Maybe it was a bargain motor.Get more detail about Eureka 3670 Mighty Mite Canister Vacuum.
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