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WOW! I sure hope you snagged that one for your collection! If I'm not mistaken, those are very hard to find! Most of the swivel tops out there are the single speed type. I've only seen this one once and it was privately labeled under the A.C. Weber brand name.

Has anyone used this? I like the looks of the turbine brush in this kit. It's quite different from their other one. I'm considering this if I can get some positive feedback from the group.

interesting......... Very similar to the Miele "Little Giant" concept.

Thanks Fred! This is exactly why I chose to join this site and the VCCC. On a previous vacuum site, I found myself constantly being bullied by the moderator-of all people! It turned me off because I don't believe it's anyone's place to tell another he's wrong simply because he expresses his...

Windsor/Sebo All of my Windsor Sensor uprights have had the on-board tools with small lettering on the the plastic which read: Sebo. I guess Windsor didn't do a very good job of putting their name on everything. The Versa-Matic is an excellent machine, only to be later out done by the...

MORE library resources!!!! HOORAY! we've got options for old vacuum images! I just found a website called searsarchives.com Among other things, they have a listing of libraries around the country which have the old catalogs. They're probably digitized images, but still they're available for...

Thanks Ohio_Tuec! I'm definitely going to look.

Riccar power nozzle. This is made for Riccar/Simplicity by a private source, an Asian company which makes and sells parts for manufacturers the way Wessel-Werke makes the SEB power nozzles for Miele. This nozzle is also very similar to what is on the Kenmore Iridium canister. I guess what I...

Ohio_Tuec: thanks for the info. I do remember how quiet those machines are/were. Tell me, is yours the orange, purple, or black? I honestly believe this machine should have been more of a template for what Oreck is doing today. In my opinion, I think they strayed a bit off the mark. They got...

Such a wicked man!!!! The very idea! Teasing us with four Floor-a-Matics! There probably haven't been 4 displayed in a row that way since a vacuum trade show in the 1960's. All kidding aside, congrats. They're beautiful. It all hearkens back to the day when the Hoover brand could compete in the...

y'all jogged my memory! When I was 4 yrs. old my grandmother bought a Lux 1205. She gave her Eureka M and her old blue/gray Constellation to my mother, who was taking them to put in the Junior League rummage sale. My mother barely even let me look at the Eureka M. She said "no way"! She told me...

library resources Where I used to live, the libraries had old Sears catalogues on microfilm and microfiche formats. That's how I was able to see alot of machines for the first time.

before Panasonic obtained these patents... Panasonic did make a clean air upright in the early 70's, or maybe it was the late 60's. It was the spitting image of the Kenmore clean air uprights of that time. I've only seen one and it was without the bag cover so I can't be totally sure, but it...

Please tell me if I'm wrong on any of these... I'm certainly no expert and alot of my info is based on memory until I see a machine again in person.

response to Bimmer740 You wrote: "I would love to hear more about this since I assumed that he came up with that design by himself. David Oreck certainly doesnt have a problem taking credit for another companies design." Basically, what Mr. Oreck did was purchase the expired patent licenses of...

older Oreck uprights Hey Ohio_Tuec: Is your Oreck upright the one with the handle release and the ball-bearing motor from the early 70's? I loved that machine. I had the CVR 2000 when I was a kid. I burned the motor up when the bearings in it wore out and I wasn't clever enough to try and fix...

I've seen this machine design before. The brand name 'Polti' has a machine that is the spitting image to this. I believe they're an Italian company.

Were their machines always given the Kobold name? I thought this name came out on some of the later models.

What I'm really eager to see is the machines at the back of the pile. There could be treasure back there..... Where are the canisters? Not a single one in the pile!

I thought it was wrong from the beginning....... Seems like whenever a vacuum comes along that's promised to be equal parts upright and canister, something gets compromised in the final product. In this case it was the hose end suction, weight and maneuverability. I think this thing actually...