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Those look like they would be alot of fun to restore. Everything is there. I love bringing back rust buckets into usable condition.

Stopped at a Louisville antique store yesterday and stumbled upon this!

Idk where the pic is but somewhere out there is a shiny chrome 1970s Oreck stick vacuum. I'd nominate that

It was on Marketplace, in Minnesota... But the seller wouldn't ship. So I paid a guy $25 to get it, $40 for the vac, and $55 for shipping costs. No hose or other tools sadly, just the dinged up wand, wood floor tool, and upholstery tool. But the wand is the special one that makes it possible to...

Its not the first model, but the first one to be exported out of continental Europe and caused the brand to take off. Scored this off Marketplace!

Thanks! The bag is courtesy of Odavid123, he did a wonderful job.

Before and (almost) after. Still need to make a black piece of headlight trim and do a couple other small things.

Original leatherette Swedish XII with the redone one

...but boy did it need it. The old leatherette was full of holes and tears, concealed by sharpie. While I was at it I gave it a buff. Anyone that has had to do this to a pre XXX Electrolux, my condolences. It took like 2 hrs just to glue/cut the new leatherette and fit the cast rings! The only...

That badge looks amazing. Excellent work!

Anyone ever see one of these before? Its about the same height as an Oreck CVR

514 sales slip

Part 2, for 40 pages this manual is deceptively thin

Kirby 514 manual, quite a hard scan as it was too long for the scanner

Ah the Karim Rashid era, that was uhh, interesting for sure

I'm pretty sure the electric motor in it was metal not bakelite, thus valuable for scrap in desperate times

Husky is right, this looks like some crap you'd get off Temu/Wish lol

Nice and mirror like now :)

They made about 15000 Eureka model 1s(like the ad, no wheels on the head, no front port) and no one seems to have one of those. There are a few model 2s floating around but thats a different story. Its possible something failed on the Aer Rotor in the majority of cases and they were thrown out...

Part 2. Sadly it appears I am missing pages 18 and 19 :(