My friendly advice to you is stop buying those plastic vaccums that KEEP breaking before you buy your 4th ranbow call the representative that I boght my Kirby from the only reason why I say call him is because he explained a lot of things about the Kirby and about the "other" vaccums that are made of plastic. Trust me you won't regret it :) Garcia is the last name I kind of forgot his last name I was too excited to look at the kirby and too embarresed that my 2,500 dollar Rainbow wasn't working :( here's his number good luck!(661)395-0300