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Toshiba is a major player in all home appliances in Japan and the eastern Oriental nations since before WW2 and since, including vacuums. Dave

First Vacuumland Review Today I went to our Local Home Hardware and they had one ORB left on the shelves and on clearance sale at $27. I snatched it up. As you know I am the furthest thing from an impulsive 'easy sell' consumer but opening the box I knew I'd made an excellent choice. I am...

For something this rare in this pristine condition I would keep up-bidding until it was mine, even if it means it's the only vacuum you can buy this year. Good Luck, Tayab. Dave

Wow, and Double WOW! That is a fantastic historical documentary. Roger. Thank you for pointing us to this film. One is kept quite entranced spotting the range of sweepers in the background and long shots. Utterly charming and the kind of material this Club is all about. Dave

Pete our CanTire had those too about 6 weeks ago. When I returned to get one the next day they were all gone. Yes, it was a clearance item - a loss leader - that appear for a week and are never stocked again. If your CanTire still has them please get me two. They retail at Home hardware at like...

Been deep researching the ORB vac. I really want one. runs on a full charge for only 8 minutes but has a surprisingly powerful suction. Best video has it pulling in popcorn kernels. Good enough for quick car cleanups, keyboard dust busting and fast cleanups in the kitchen. What a cool thing to...

"Is this a Compact hose? It doesn't look like a Lux hose." No, that is a hose for a Eureka upright. The fitting is designed to clip into an access port under a clipped cap in the exterior hood casing above the brushroll, on the body of the machine below the headlight. The fitting inserts down...

I was born and raised in this house until about age 10. We lived on the second floor, my childless aunt & uncle on the spacious attic floor and my Maternal Grandmother ruled the roost benevolently from the ground floor. It was a Depression survival sort of arrangement that evolved into three...

My brother and sister are much like yours in their disregard for the past and even my Mom performed a purge of 3/4 of the old photographs of our family stretching back to immigrant great grandparents from Scotland and Germany as they forged a new life in Canada. At the age of 13 I was...

As soon as the Escargot migrates to North America I will be snapping one up, as long as features are not de-contented or converted to a rechargeable. Far from being ugly, I find this to be a stylish design statement that stores in very little room. This is a must in crowded cities with tiny...

Brandon, Mr 13 years old, ignore the advice in my post above if you like but seriously? Your comment on and contribution to this thread is to simply name a vacuum/floorcare brand...with no specifics or story? I am embarrassed for you, boy.

Are the 3 bolts out yet? Then I'd say that the rubber bumper grooves have been made wet at some point turning the schmutz into some sort of glue. Carefully insert a thin blade screw driver top under the rubber bump strip entering the seam, working your way gently around the perimeter. The...

Please see value determining information in Thread Number: 19404 Kirby Classic Omega - What's it worth? http://www.vacuumland.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?19404_2

Now that you have the component parts separated... Before going to all that delay, try soaking the piece overnight in a bowl of Rust release solution from a hardware or autoparts store. It will enter and saturate the corroded areas and make removal almost a sure thing. Do not soak any Bakelite...

If you're going to start a thread with a subject head like that then the onus is on you to be the first contributor. Otherwise you run the risk of being considered a Twitterface dorkhead artificially running up their post count. Idle conversations rife with hyperbole like this are best reserved...

Brad, there are only three bolts holding the halves together, no more and no less - no clips, tabs or adhesives. The halves join together dry in channels of the rubber bumper surround. One bolt is at center front below the bag door latch and the other two reside inside the wheel wells of the...

No need to apologize for the multitude of posts, Ricky; it takes a learning curve for newbies to discover and become comfortable with the nuances of this superior discussion website. We all go through the 'trial by Fire' But they should all be posted in and added to the original thread to keep...

As 'they' say, a seller's thing is worth what a buyer is willing to pay. This is primarily a collector's enjoyment site, not really an evaluation source. There are bucketloads of Kirbys that are regularly listed on eBay - dare I say more than any other vacuum, by a size-able margin. Monitor...

Right you are, Ken, as always. While the Eureka tubs have rubber gasketed large cotton dust bags surrounding the motor this is meant more as a motor filter. Both machines were meant to use a similar sized paper insert (similar to a Compact) that are not as hard to find today as you might think...

This idea from 1945 is too groovy to leave out. Eject the bag with a diverted blast of exhaust. Here an excerpt from a communication from Alex Taber providing even more food for thought in the early genesis and development of a self-ejecting Dust Wrapper: "The Jack-in-the-box canister, XXX...