My dirt devil reaction is spitting out dirt everywhere. how do i fix this?

Hold the top firmly, and twist the bottom of the canister anti -clockwise and you will be able to clean. Re-assemble by lining up both parts and twisting clockwise to lock!

The belt on our Dirt Devil Model 088600 gets EXTREMELY right and keeps slipping off every few minutes. Any suggestions please?

With all upright vacuums the problem could be one of two things on it in this situation.

1) the belt may be broken or slipping and is needing to be changed.

2) the lower area below the hose attchment and the rotating brush may be blocked up.

It is also possible that both could be giving you a problem too, however if it is blocked up down below then you will most likely see some dirt and debris spitting back out as you vacuum.

i traded it in for a bagged vacuum thanks though

The cyclone parts in the Dirt Cup are fixed in place. They do not spin.

does it have a bare floor setting that shuts off the beater bar? if the brush is revolving it will scatter dirt instead of picking it up

My Dirt devil Reaction does the same thing. So I took apart the motor and it was crammed w/ dirt then I decided to clean it out. next time I vacuumed my house it was a lot quieter. The guy from Jones sew and vac said baggless vacuum filters most of the time fail and let dirt get in the motor and start to scream. I read a lot of things saying Dirt devil Reaction is the most common vacuum to get dirt in the motor and start to wail then get worse & worse and get to the point where they start to almost scream. P.S if you let it scream for along time of use it will give the motor permanent damage and you will smell electrical burning, if that happens it will be too late so you will half to buy a new machine. To get to the motor you can take the dust contaner off and take the black filter then use your down stairs vacuum and get a small attachament and stick it in and vacuum it out,if not have two vacuums borrow one. If that doesn't clean it out you will need to take all the plastic appart and realy get to the motor good. If my advice dosn't help it is ok to still use it, it will just be loud until the motor of it is totally fried. This should work it worked on my Dirt devil Reaction. I'm sorry if it doesn't work out. :D

its a design flaw that cant be fixed

The manual is confusing - I had the same problem. Make sure you put the belt around the smaller motor axle, not the lever arm attached to the on/off foot switch. It's a bit counter-intuitive, but that was my problem with this. Jeff