Recent content by chad

old hoovers Those are both great models.

440 Thats why I'm selling this stuff right now.... I'm building a max wedge. I've built a LOT of cars in my many days, and figure I want to do one last one right.

Thanks I found it really hard to put the vacuums in the boxes. There was quite a bit of my life spent repairing those two.

Here's the last of my Universal items that I have for sale. https://www.ebay.com/itm/392882189518

thanks I'll give it a try. Also found an unusual wooden bellows vacuum from what I figure is the late 1800's. It has large wheels that turn a set of gears, which in turn moves a concentric, that moves a leather bellows in and out on each end of the unit. Kinda neat, but couldn't have worked...

little green Found a Bissell little green 1400 in the trunk of one of my old cars. It seems that it was a giveaway if you sat through the sales pitch of the traveling vacuum salesman? Anyhow, time has not been kind to the box and what-have-you, so its not really worth anything. I'm wondering if...

Been getting a lot of people messaging be from Europe, wanting to buy the 825. As much as I love folk from the other side of the drink, there s just no good way to ship it, (especially without me worrying myself to death about it). I ve had some really fair offers from those folk, but can't...

universal Thank you. It was very much a lot of work and money to do. The switch on the Universal was wrong, but I included an extra handle assembly with the original switch to the buyer. We'll see if he/she appreciated it when they get it. There's no money to be made restoring one like I've...

825 Oh, and if you'll look in the 4th picture, you will spot a U-TEST-M drugstore tube tester. God I love that thing, and it does a quick and dirty tube emission test. Paid 525 to have it shipped. lol. But, down here I've never seen another since I was a youngster. I think the fellers up north...

shipping You are correct there. The one i sold yesterday kind of hung me out to dry, shipping wise. I even cut the box down three times to try to get it into reasonable territory. I figure this one will be just as much, if not more because it's taller, and the dusting tools that come with it is...

825 Thats mine. Years back, I "think" there was a thread or two I did when I was getting it going. I spent a LOT of time and money on this one, and never really used it, as I never got carpet after my house fire. I took a huge bath on shipping on the Universal I sold yesterday, as I hadn't...

What I mean is, I ve bought things that I didn t figure I would ever want, just because they were so nice.

It s one of those items that if I saw it at an antique shop, I might give 20 or 30 bucks for. Of course, yours might be the diamond encrusted model. I'm partial to pictures myself.

Regarding your Hoover special. Regarding the coffeecan models, Hoover stamped the model number on the bottom of the vacuum. I would like a better pic of the bale that holds the bag up please.

Everyone talks about aluminum trees, (or is that just Charlie Brown Christmas). Do they exist?