The Miele S3xxi machines are my favourite of them all. Reliable, bullet proof, nice and compact. I had this one given to me by another collector many years ago now






We start with the floorhead!



Not too rusty but a bit of a dent.



Full of fluff though



The red lint strips pop out of the baseplate, they were in good order.



The brushes pull out next, and reveal loads of packed up fluff



But that soon got removed



On this style of head, removing the wheel axle makes the whole neck come apart. I removed the locking latch too

What you describe sounds more like a brush bar motor or a reset button.

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Yes sorry this has now sold.

Having re-read your post, my advice is for an upright not a cylinder 😂 I think you meant DC28c, not 33!

Let me try again with stuff that might make sense...

1 - The tiny hose right at the front of the machine, behind where the main hose clicks into, that is 100% clear isn't it?

2 - Sounds like you've been inside it which is good (there's a refurb thread on the forum if you get stuck) and have found the dreaded inner post motor filter. It's made of the most fragile material EVER, don't touch it if you can help it. I use an air blower (old 1950's paint psrayer with a 1600w dyson motor in 👌) to blow as much crap off as I can and thats about as good as you can do. Brand new filters are available but I don't think their easy to fit at all, possibly impossible...

3 - If you've thoroughly washed and dried the top filter that sits in the cyclone, and your sure the cyclone itself isn't gummed up with fine dust, you could run some tests. If you remove the cyclone, then push the top handle back down so it clicks down, turn the machine on. You should get good, strong suction from that opening there. Refit the cyclone, take the hose off and you should get mostly the same power from that opening. Repeat down all the tools and hope there's a clog somewhere...

Also which floor head do you have? Does it have a brushroll? Dyson had about 19 different variants of head out on all the cylinders over their run so a pic might help answer that question!

I hope the above makes more sense. This thread https://manchestervacs.co.uk/DysonForum/index.php/topic,2313.0.html covers a different machine that's 90% the same so should point you in the right direction.