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i've worked on kirbys for many years but never did i tear one down to pull the armature out.today i did.was a lot easier than i expected.front bearing & rear bearing was kinda dry.repacked them & now my DS-50 is much happier.how can i tell ??? she hums like she should.

found this in my box of brush rolls.never saw one like this.is it a kirby ? no belt marks.

need a motor housing for a 500 series kirby.517- 560 with a good handle spring.

never knew they came like that.then again there are things i do not know about kirbys.

i found out something about the kirby classic III that i did not know.it's the way the motor housing is made that you can not see the motor shaft.only the cooling fan.can't see the hole to insert an awl or something to hold the shaft from turning while trying to remove the suction fan.i wanted...

so here is what i did to defeat the oval emptor bag install on my classic III.i threw the bag in the dryer to heat up the elastic & with one pull it went right on with ease.PROBLEM SOLVED ! i now again love my kirby classic III !

classic III shakeout bag install the round emptors are easier to put on than the oval ones.i can almost get it but not yet.might try the mini-emptor & see if that works on my classic III.so far it's just been grunt & pull.i must overcome this problem.

does anyone have any tricks of the trade on getting a classic III bag on an oval emptor.is it just sheer strength ? the one i just bought had a nasty smell and is sorta worn out.i have a nice one i'm trying to put on.

lucy vacuums up coins i found the show where lucy uses a hoover to vacuum up coins.it's called SO3E13.lucy,the coin collector.

i walk the line movie there's a kirby sitting in one of the rooms.also karen black in some movie vacuuming on the stairs with a kirby.sound was fake.

will be posting an original kirby tan cord with tan plug ends on ebay tomorrow.probably for a sanitronic vII ?

to:TM try goo gone.it says surface safe.

looking for a decent D-80 original bag.has to be sold on ebay.that's my go to store.

need one on ebay to buy at a decent price.

i love the design on the red bag.very nice !

trans pedal missing on the G7D i found in the trash is that a hard & expensive fix ? when i run it the trans works but can't shift it.

this was setting in the trash waiting to get thrown away.i saved a kirby G7D.bag was full & hard & smelled like pet hair.i see why they got rid of it.i changed the bag & did some maintenance on it & now it's a good working kirby again.thanks to whoever for not knowing about kirbys.

moms vacuum my mom used a 516 or 517 kirby for years.i was in my thirties when she sold it.broke my heart to see it go.so that's how i got kirby fever.plus i added a bunch of 500 series kirbys to my collection like the picture.

i bought this some time ago & when i turned it on it made a strange noise i did not hear from a kirby before.i parked it in a closet for a long time.yesterday i tore it down looking for the noise.bearings were good,brushroll was good.i took the fan case off & saw it had a plastic fan on it.what...

on dec.25,1987 a commercial was made for philips square bulbs called vacuum up the cat.super bowl XXI.showed an older lady using what looks like a kirby classic 1CR.found it on you tube.