Recent content by epluribuskirby

old bag, old silk screening. Uhhh, hhhmmm. Well, I took a big chance on account of the silk screening hasn't flaked anywhere and still feels soft and pliable. As you can see the bag is definitely faded but the logo looks great. michael

old bag, new idea Thank you ultralux88. What you said made me go through my pile of old bags until I found an extremely faded Tradition bag which had either been repaired or originally made by sewing the spring into a separate strip of material which was sewn to the bottom of the bag. All I've...

old bag. what would you do? Cleaned up the nozzle this evening and it's already looking decent. The question of course is would any of you take a chance on washing the bag, or maybe vacuum it inside and out and hang it on the wall? Or should I just leave it as is and hang it?   michael

old bag. what would you do? The spring in the bottom is rusted and there was a good amount of corrosion in the emtor.  There's a couple of small tears from where corrsion had glued it to the emtor. Aside from a little fading and the roughly 5 pounds of dirt the rest of the bag is in reasonable...

Got a 561 yesterday. Thought I had a nice vintage bag. Tried to pull it off to start the cleaning process. Clearly it had been ridden hard and put away wet.

What to do with all that tan crud from factory rebuilds Again not for the faint of heart or the purist. This is a D80 minus it's puke green trim. In tan trim I feel like I can work with it, in puke I just wanna run to the bathroom. michael

neither for the purist nor the faint of heart part 2 Meet Alice, the upstairs maid. She's a 560 wearing a Heritage 2 outer bag over a style 1 inner bag again with a Tradition oval emtor with Classic III trim. She also sports a Classic III handle which is waiting for it's red insert. Don't...

neither for the purist nor the faint of heart Meet Ethel, the downstair maid. She's a 519 wearing a Legend 2 outer bag over a style 3 inner bag connected to a Tradition oval emtor with Classic III trim.[this post was last edited: 3/2/2014-18:57]