[md_cleaning]

on tuesday my waste lid cracked after a few years of vac pressure, so rang alltec for a new one, got the bill today £53.02 with vat and carriage £66.41, i can't believe it's so much for a plastic lid, at that price it should be bomb proof.
 Dave

[Colin Day]

My lid's cracked too.... 

[clinton]

cracked from what  mate

[md_cleaning]

just the suction on it from the vacs, thats all, for that price they should last for life.

[Jim_77]

for gods sake dont buy a truckmount, you'll have a coronary!

[Colin Day]

for gods sake dont buy a truckmount, you'll have a coronary!

Clinton, I put the machine up-side-down to get at the pump to change the plunger kit.

I lost control and the lid took a rather large hit!!!! School boy error

[Neil Williams]

I've got to ask, why didn't you just go to halfords and get a glass fibre repair kit?

[Joe H]

for gods sake dont buy a truckmount, you'll have a coronary!

[clinton]

Thanks colin thought it might have been a fault mate.

[Paul Heath]

£66 carriage.....did it come on a pallet with its own lorry???

[Fintan_Coll]

£53 +vat, surely must be a mistake, its only a piece of light plastic.

[John Kelly]

To be fair to Alltec even though its only a peice of plastic they will have had to have it manufactured. They make their own machines as opposed to just buying them in from the states. To get a plastics company to tool up to produce what would be a moderate amount of product is very expensive.

[garyfindlay]

I got a male plug for my powerflite,  £35 + vat, nearly hardwired the f1cking thing at that price.

[Jamie Pearson]

The price for the lid seems in line with other machines that have Perspex/plastic type lids unfortunately.

The worst price I ever saw was the old prochem galaxy. It was a huge lid with a proportionate tag.

[Jim_77]

I think we all forget that there aren't many carpet cleaning machines made.  A piece of moulded plastic has to be made with tooling that can cost thousands to set up, so if the number produced is very small, the cost per finished item will be high.

You could buy a plastic bin for £1 in a cheapo shop, because there are millions of them made in the world.

£45 plus vat, the real cost of this item, is probably almost a non-profit sale for Alltec when you take everything into account.  They're not Tesco, they haven't bough 5 million of them.

[AJB]

Gary i replaced the leads and plugs on my Powrflite
with these

http://www.neutrik.com/us/en/industry/204_390365502/powerCON_20_Amp_productlist.aspx

Amtech are so impressed with them they are looking to switch to these for future machines.

Total cost approx' £25

[Colin Day]

I managed to fix my lid today with Araldite. 

I also had to fix the filters after someone's kid popped his finger through the gauze of all three intakes the other day

[clinton]

Yopu van always get some new mesh mate from a diy shop long as its flexible.

Maybe get another lid colin rather than fix it?

[Colin Day]

It's only cracked mate and I've done a test run and all's well.....

I got the mesh from B&Q for under £8, job's a gudden!!!!

[derek west]

on tuesday my waste lid cracked after a few years of vac pressure, so rang alltec for a new one, got the bill today £53.02 with vat and carriage £66.41, i can't believe it's so much for a plastic lid, at that price it should be bomb proof.
 Dave

and while you were paying your £66.41, he was probably out playing golf. conclusion! fast track really does work