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jobezark t1_itq15z9 wrote

Reply to comment by CrowbarDepot in I refurbished a Henry! These things are indestructible… by J3ttf

And the downside is you need to purchase bags there is no guarantee will be manufactured 5,10,20 years down the road

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poo_is_hilarious t1_itq5k2k wrote

Henry's will be being used by cockroaches to clean their mansions after the nuclear apocalypse. I don't think you need to worry about finding bags!

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CrowbarDepot t1_itq1wuv wrote

Numatic will still be there in 20 years - and if they aren't, there exists a sizable market of Numatic machine owners for third party bag manufacturers. No worries.

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J3ttf OP t1_itq6s5c wrote

Yeah, every Tesco, Asda and Lidl I know have been carrying them for years

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OldBoatsBoysClub t1_itqu6h4 wrote

They've been making them for forty years, and bags (and even most components) from a Henry made in 1982 work fine in one from 2022. I don't see why a product that's built its brand on reliability and sticking to what works for four decades could be any more less likely to go out of production - especially as it's been a consistent top seller in its domestic market for most of that forty years.

And generic bags work fine, they're not proprietary. You can even get cleanable ones if you want to fuck up your drains.

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gargravarr2112 t1_itqk9t7 wrote

Numatic are well established and these are very popular machines, so it's a fairly safe bet - there's an excellent market for replacement bags so it's in their interests to keep making them. For lesser brands, definitely a problem though.

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jameson71 t1_itq2pb4 wrote

If you buy from a decent brand like Meile, they sure as heck will be

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