Rare Singer??
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cheesewonton
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Wow. Does it have a name or model number? I'm weird for Singers but have never seen that model before.
silverfish513
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That was the only picture of it.
cheesewonton
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I found this. It is similar but not quite
cheesewonton
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Here we go. Singer SST-025A.
cheesewonton
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If it is like any of my several Ryobi made Singer vacuums the plastic is terribly brittle and fragile. Nice to look at in a collection but not something you want to use. While moving a Singer power nozzle of roughly the same vintage slid off the end of the wand onto deep pile carpet from a height of no more than two and a half feet off the carpet. It shattered like glass ! No parts anywhere for them either. I was lucky in that the upper half popped off with minimal damage that is not visible and there was an NOS lower half in about the right color on eBay I bought but that was sheer luck.
vacuumchannel6
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Seems to be a heavy dutier commercial version of a singer. I know that there were some. I was watching a true crime story one time and in the background there were one of these I think it was a bit different but it had the same color s
Just FYI….the Japanese Ryobi company bought Singer in 1988. Which meant they took over the Singer vacuum factory at that time as well.
And this was just a few years before Matsushita Panasonic of Japan bought the Whirlpool vacuum factory in Danville. So by 1992, lots of Japanese companies were major players in the North American vacuum market.
vacuumchannel6
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kirbylux77
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I can confirm the Kenmore variant did exist. I knew a guy in the mid 90's that had that exact same Kenmore! But it is rare though - that's the ONLY ONE I have seen, have only seen the much more common Singer and Kenmore Twin Fan uprights.
cheesewonton
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Yes. Ryobi was making Singer and Kenmore branded vacuums in Anderson right up until TTI bought Ryobi. They also made Craftsman power tools there. Now the plant is owned by TTI and makes Ryobi brand power tools.
vacuumchannel6
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I went through the painstaking process of trying to find what show i found it on, turns out it was the same one in this photo. FBI Files - Cracking the cartel
cheesewonton
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Oooh, new thread. Vacuums of the Cartels or Vacuums of Organized Crime. Gotta go pop some corn : )
vacuumchannel6
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kirbylux77
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Kenny, I agree with you entirely on that! Plus anyone that would call a Singer-made upright "heavy duty" is seriously delusional, considering how poorly made they were!
cheesewonton
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The basic Twin Fan was a reliable enough vacuum. Plenty seem to have survived till today and remain serviceable, though parts are pretty scarce. I always thought their layout was clever, maximizing airflow across the entire nozzle width instead of a single suction inlet off to one side. Singer vacuums were decent quality machines before Ryobi came along. Kenmore sold two flavors of the basic Twin Fan design as "Kenmore Heavy Duty" models.
