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What a great find! The old Chocolate brown Filter Queens are really great vacuums. Very simple and very well built. If you can acquire the power nozzle you’d have a great power team! Make sure to use genuine filter cones

Here is the model tag for the Lite.

Other than the Windtunnel Lite they are all fairly common models. Just a lot of them have piled up over the years. I don’t know if the Z400 counts as a Windtunnel, but they are unusual so here it is. I also have a Z700, a Green Dual V, and another Blue self propelled Windtunnel, I believe it is...

Windtunnel's are getting to be worse than Kirbys at my house, I have far to many of them and for the most part they are fairly similar. Anyways, cruised though Goodwill and seen a Windtunnel that I had never seen before, the Windtunnel Lite. I only seen one mention of it on here, so I thought...

and also... Someone that's a better Kirby expert than me can chime in but I believe the fan material was a NASA developed product. The have used different materials over the years and I'm not 100% sure which models go with the different types.

To be fair that heritage II was probably 10-15 years old by that point. The power switched had cracked and split in half. If I remember I was able to glue it back together. The G6 is great, I still have it. Of course Kirby’s are fairly common to come by, I have 9 of them now a days I believe...

I have the GE badged Eureka and the Kenmore Performance Plus. I also used to have that soft bag Bissell but have parted with it since.

So growing up my neighbor had this vacuum as well a Kirby Heritage II. When I first moved there and started helping her clean her house the Heritage was broke actually, I assume that’s why she had the Westinghouse in the first place. I fixed the Heritage and used it instead of the...

Here is a video of a vac shop tearing one apart. I does look to be a bit fussy to take to pieces.

It’s hard to say what the original sellers intentions where. If you really want to you could pull the fan stages apart and clean them. As long as the motor sounds fine though I wouldn’t bother. Maybe just run for a while without the final filter to clear it out. Most clean fan motors will...

I seen this thread and had to get this monstrosity out and use it! I always like the victory vacuums, they weren't the best but I remember when they first came out and I thought the design was so unusual. Practically the bagged one is better, but the less successful models can be fun to use...

I have a newer "Black Onyx" Rainbow, but sometimes I just really like using my D4. Maybe it's because I put a substantial amount of work into rebuilding it, but it just is a very pleasant machine to use. Just for the record I have a D3, a D4, an E4, and I used to have a 1st general E series as...

Got it cleaned up and ready for use. This was either a low milage unit or very well taken care. It was in excellent shape with only minimal clean up needed. Other than being a bit loud, is actually a pretty nice little vacuum. Lightweight, groomed well, seemed to pick up a good amount out of...

I cruised through our local Goodwill today and they had this Caddy Vac sitting in the corner. The Elite style machines aren't my favorite, but the Caddy Vac version seems to be fairly unusual and it was in good shape so I brought it home. Haven't really cleaned it up or looked at it yet, but...

We had a red Hoover Elite when I was very little. When I was middle school, we went to the hardware store and got an orange Hoover EmPower. Not a special machine, but it’s still with my grandmas stuff.

That’s quite a haul! A solid selection of machines there. Did you buy them all new?

Cool to see the Air Way name coming back! Odd to see it in a normal canister and not using their traditional form, but I guess that’s what you get? Who is manufacturing this vacuum? The brush is reminiscent of the VGIII/sweepngroom, but does it borrow from vacuum history elsewhere?

The replacement brush motor

The power nozzle as I found it

I seen this guy sitting at the thrift store for $35 and thought it was too good to leave there. This machine certainly has an interesting history. On the surface it seems almost unused. There is hardly any scuffing or scratches in the body; the brush roll looked new, and the exhaust filters...