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Wow: That is one superb looking machine, congratulations.

Nicely found.

Plenty of time wasters and crooks on eBay.

Hi blknblu Thanks for the Morgan link, that's an excellent little booklet.

Hi blknblu That Olympia in Royal Blue looks really nice.

@turbomaster When you mentioned buying for your grandfather who was ill at the time, I thought you were talking about ready meals.   You have my humble apologies for making a terrible mistake by misinterpreting what you were saying.   As for your "as you put it" large figure, who else...

lol @ Vintagerepairer We all like being lazy at times & I've used ready meals myself in the past, for example taking one to work for lunch. We only had a Microwave to cook with so they came in handy.    

Nice Good bit of detective work.

@turbomaster 1st off, please accept my condolences on the loss of your Grandfather.   Please explain where I said all ready made foods were a bad thing ?. Also I wasn't talking about ready meals, I was referring to such things as ready made Mash, Gravy / stock / sauces ready made in a tub...

You would have thought there would be some attachment but obviously not.  

@suckolux Can't argue with you there, takes but minutes to empty the bag. Some people are just too damned lazy, just take a look in the frozen food aisles & see things like frozen Gravy etc for proof.

Have you cleaned out the cleaner head & cleaned the brush roll ?. I'd also run a cloth through all internal passageways. The 1st thing I'd use is White vinegar & then follow that up with pure Lemon juice, normally gets rid of most bad smells. Just make sure you let it fully dry before use.

Hi: What sort of smell is it ?

So what does he do with all the stuff he buy's ? Does he actually restore it for his collection or just hoard it ?.   If it's getting restored for the guys collection, I can understand that. But if he's buying them up just for the sake of hoarding then to me that's sad.    

Nice Find None of our local charity shops will take in or sell electrical items, what did it fail the PAT test on ?. Did you find out. It can fail for lots of things, Like having a plug with non insulated pins or Nicks in the power lead. Even badly contaminated appliances or power leads can...