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Glad you were honest about it and there are no hard feelings. Now you can sleep well and enjoy your new find. Wow, and double wow.

I have to make regular sojourns from my high desert redoubt to the filthy and dangerous environs of Los Angeles for medical appointments. I had to make one such journey today. Along the way are two vacuum shops that are Miele and Tacony dealers. I have gone into these shops on occasion, time...

I saw that tube in a schematic for that brush on the Hesco website. I wondered why they felt they had to do that when I can't think of another brush that needs that. The schematic of that brush made me suck air through my teeth. There are a lot of parts in there and a lot is going on. I will...

Looks like this weekend I have to visit Antelope Valley Paint and have them color match a pint of acrylic enamel to the A-B and get a high quality air brush. No half measures now. All in.

Jaker15, the transition is fast, but the back and forth play in the neck is bothersome. It is also heavy compared to what I'm used to. The vacuum itself, however, feels expensive and is visibly well made. Panasonic put a lot of love into this machine and it shows. I also like that I can...

KHDRC UPDATE: Center staff determined that movement in the swivel neck changes the direction of rotation of the brush. The transition is almost instantaneous and staff wonders about the effect of constant rapid direction changes on belt life. The pedal switch on the floor brush labeled...

Kenmorefan, do you have the little black plastic filter frame like you see in the photos of my vacuum? I don't see it in the photo of the filter area you posted.

I owe Kenmorefan an apology for offering to buy it. I'm sure they cherish that vac. It has bothered me all day. Apologies I'll post up a couple of pix of the filter area for the rest of the audience to see what I am rambling on about. Cool vacuum though, might even become a favorite. The...

I can't even begin to express my gratitude. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Wow. The Bomber will live again! Thank you.

Absolutely positively beautiful. Those are one of the four or five best canister vacuums ever made by any company. That hose is priceless. Bravo. Well bought. ps: I'd rather have that than a free curbside Kirby any day of the week :o did I just say that? hee, hee, hee

You recall I mentioned the small Kenmore 2.5 I bought came with an unusual small 12 inch wide Powermate. The base was broken in two places, but Sears Parts Direct showed it was still available and a call to them confirmed this. I reported a few days ago that Sears indeed shipped the part and...

The KHDRC center today inducted a kissing cousin of the normal Kenmore fare the Center specializes in. The vacuum is a Panasonic Jet Flo 240, model 9530, canister. It was purchased from a family that replaced all of their carpet with wood flooring and now claims to prefer using a Dyson! The...

Heh, heh, heh. Let me know when they respond. I have yet to hear back from them.

Someday I want a Curby ( curb find Kirby ) but don't want to do the whole off the hinge Kirby cult obsession thing. Too expensive, and too weird. I'm not going to slice roast beef and grind things with my vacuum cleaner. Sheesh.

Stolen maybe? Or maybe about to be re-poed? Well that certainly dampens the joy of the find. Darn.

Very cool. I have often wondered what the old Warsaw Pact used to vacuum their homes with, or if they even had vacuums. Bet they were confined to the elite nomenklatura and not widely available to the proletariate. I'm sure the motor turned the opposite direction of a Hoover motor. The...

I just finished refurbishing one of those! Figuring out a premotor filter is a challenge. The original filter is not available. This is not the same body as the full sized Kenmore canisters of that era. They look the same but are only 3/4 the size of the ones you are thinking of and it...

Stricklybojack, I have one of those smaller machines you described as well! Until last month I didn't even know they existed. I saw it on Craigslist, saw the unusual lid with the tools set into recesses cast into the lid instead of on a detachable tool tray and thought, oh cool, another...

Darn, Tom, yours is so beautiful! Mine is 116.29971 and had a different pre-motor filter, otherwise identical. I forgot there was a big tag around the High/Low switch saying High and Low. Something else that was lost, sigh. I have to dig around my fiancees garage once more and see if I can...

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