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Those that have and use a Floor Washer/Dryer love them. I have...um...4. Having seen one in ads here and at fellow collector's homes I went searching. At the time they began falling from the sky. First picture is from 2010. Other pictures show a replacement nozzle I made up from an obscure floor...

Yes Seamus, that's the 1954 first model and with the original hose, too. You lucky duck. Is it a Perrivale Constellation? And does it have the floater mofification to the base? Our Cana/US model 82 non-floater was manufactured, along with the floating mulberry 84 and Heather Rose 85, from...

Two thumbs up for this. Looking forward to laying my hands on one and will have to purchase, probably. It'll be a nice companion to my compact blue Hoover disinfecting canister steam cleaner ensemble. Some new stuff shows clever engineering and as advertised...

Could you children please confine yourselves to the Junior Forum?

I thought the same thing when the 'she' reference came up, as the OP had stated 'guy' and 'he'. I watched the videos and it was obviously an enthusiastic young'un of 13 or 15 (I hope not over 18). I was going to fire off something questioning the 'she' reference in this day & age of hopeful...

Thanks for the laugh, Brandon. I do have a FlowBee kit upstairs in a box somewhere. Nice bit of Vacuum Ephemera. Better yet, a few years ago I found a FlowBee Pet Groomer version in a secondhand store, in Turquoise, which provided a turquoise hose for one of my GE RollEasys. The other loooong...

I give the Shark Rocket Ultralite two thumbs up. I got the Blue Rocket at Woodstock Walmart on Saturday. As advertised, $149.00. (versus $549 for the Dyson). As lovely as the Dyson is battery runtime is abysmally low. I like it a lot. With my somewhat limited strength these days it's the...

Value vs cost On a side note, I've become enamored of the Shark ROCKET Ultralite. I first saw it at Canadian Tire displayed beside the Dyson cordless DC62 stick vac. Widely available in Orange Tangerine, Walmart's is Azure Blue, which I much prefer. Both are cyclonic bagless hand-vacs with...

Alex, this is how I've done it - twice. Recently did one for my A-W DirtMasteR. Assuming the plug is complete detached from the cord, you want to first dribble oil (thin sew machine oil flows well - I would not use WD40) inside the plug at the cord end, then work more oil in and around the...

Very powerful vacuum. I have the same model. Came with the hose and a floor tool. Had no power cord so taking a cue from the pale blue hose coupler ring & carry strap handle I paired it up with various spare blue accessories. Used an appliance plug on a blue cord I had lying around, A...

Brandon, I agree with you about the desirability of Detroit living/visiting; there's a level of good living still alive and well. Downtown core&#92has become once again a civilized destination. My first experiences in Detroit was a a young lad when Dad would take us from London Ontario for the...

Let's be clear here... Hoover's lawsuit failed because Air-Way's brushroll was spun by a second dedicated motor on top of the floor nozzle and the DirtMastR used a single horizontal motor with fans on each end and an extended shaft to turn the brushroll 'backwards'. Hardly an infringement on...

Kirby kickline.

very pointless Arghhhh. A better question would be 'Why post this?' Belongs, if anywhere in Vacuumland, in the JUNIOR Forum.

Very cool...and speaking my language. Wherever you find this stuff, keep 'em coming, Robert & Fred.

Thanks Tom. My instinctive guess about Hoover was on the right track, if in the wrong direction. :-) I've always said Air-Way lead the pack with original ideas that actually worked and surpassed its competition. The 55A was a radical departure from standard practice, so brilliant the basic...

Having acquired a fabled and supreme 1935 Air-Way DirtMasteR fairly recently and subjecting it to a slow careful restoration (dismantling and polishing every single metal fitting including bolts & screws) I took time out to look up all the patent numbers on the base plate. In 1938 Air-Way...

Dug up this sketch from postings a few years back. This was what we were expecting in the Avalir. :-( Fan top exhaust, Bag centered behind the handle, Quick Change hose connection and possibly a gear driven brushroll. All relatively easy to re-engineer keeping the deservedly famous powerplant...

Great looking find, Sam. Since the 'alligator' pattern is embossed on the sheet metal a new paint job could be justified. :-) No visaable broken bits and the chrome looks flawless.

No doubt that Tom will see this and chime in with the real story. I don't know how many model iterations there are or their differences but it all springs from the pre-war model 55 vertical stance 'fire hydrant' in purple or blue hammertone. This was Air-Way's redesign language after the...