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    best hoover vac ever made.

          <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: medium;">No offense to anyone, but I am not the huge, hope-to-die Hoover Fanatic that some people here are. And that's entirely because I saw so few of them growing up. </span>   <span style="font-family: trebuchet...
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    cleaning VINTAGE bags (Kirby 510)

          <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: medium; color: #3366ff;">"I'm sure there are ways to delicately clean the bag without losing the printing, a gentle hand washing in cool water & woolite or something similar should do the job, nothing ventured, nothing...
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    Getting out the big gun!

          <strong><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: medium;">Right, but that's paste wax which in theory does give a harder and more durable finish than liquid wax, but it's also much harder to use as it has to be applied on your hands and knees with a rag. My...
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    cleaning VINTAGE bags (Kirby 510)

          <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: medium;"><strong> Well, the joke was that his profile states he was born in 1893 ... I assume that's a typo, meant to be 1983, unless we have a118-year-old collector</span></strong><span style="font-family: trebuchet...
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    cleaning VINTAGE bags (Kirby 510)

          "<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: medium;">I may try a very tiny amount of fabric cleaner...."</span>   <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: medium;">I wouldn't even do that. You risk rubbing off the silkscreened lettering. The...
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    cleaning VINTAGE bags (Kirby 510)

    <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: medium;">That bag is in EXCELLENT condition. Were it mine, I'd hardly dare ruining it by trying to clean it. "Leave Well Enough Alone...!"</span>    
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    Getting out the big gun!

          <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: medium;">Unless you were wending your way through residential neighborhoods, I doubt if you saw our building. The street I live on is only, hmm, about seven blocks long, cut off on the west end by Redondo Avenue and on the...
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    Getting out the big gun!

          <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: medium;">I live in a fourplex built in 1937. That's the same year of construction as the building (also a fourplex) that my former apartment was in. The floors here are gorgeous.</span>  
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    Getting out the big gun!

          <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: medium;">No, Beautiflor has not been made for many years. I have a pretty good supply of it stocked up, and whenever I come across some I grab it up. It's great stuff, and the scent is incredibly heavenly. Takes me right back...
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    Getting out the big gun!

          <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: medium;">The kitchen floor really needed a good stripping and scrubbing, so today I got out the "big gun" -- my 1950s-60s (not sure exactly how old it is) commercial 13" Mercury Bulldog floor buffer (that I found at a yard...
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    electro lux

          <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: medium;">I agree just on a matter of principle that member profiles should be filled out</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: medium;"> as a requirement for membership</span><span style="font-family...
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    anyone want a free Dial-A-Matic hose?

        <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: medium;">What is that circular ring about halfway down the length of the hose?</span>
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    Neat Video of 1945 Hoover Upright

          <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: medium;">A fabulous Hoover Citation -- vacuuming a tile floor??!</span> http://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/673-21/Image-Bank-Film--Signature
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    It followed me home

          <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: medium;">Oh goodie, another Vacuumland Troll!</span>
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    Old School Photo of Me Circa 1990

          <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: medium;">Now see how cute you were without all that fuzzy mess on your face! Time for a shave maybe? hahahaha, just kidding.  ;P</span>    
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    electrolux automatic g

          <strong><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: medium;">heheh, yes, typos are certainly excusable ... However, there IS an alarming and increasing growth of illiteracy not just in the U.S. but in other 'developed' countries as well. </span></strong>  ...
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    electrolux automatic g

    <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: medium;">"comprehendible" </span> <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: medium;">A perfect example! hahahahaha ;P</span>     <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: medium;">"But seriously...
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    Cloth Hose ID Anyone?

        <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: medium;">That type of floor brush has been around since the 1920s. Many early tank machines, including Electrolux </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: medium;">(Models V through XII</span><span...
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    Cloth Hose ID Anyone?

          <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: medium;">See link ... for the definitive identification of this hose and attachment set!</span> http://cgi.ebay.com/VTG-G-E-AVA-814-ATTACHMENTS-NOS-50S-INSTRUCTIONS-BOX-/170673095011
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    A Treasure From My Childhood- - - - - - - -

    Speaking of LX retrofitted with a PN <span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: medium;">Here's one on eBay. Check out the third photo to see where the PN Port was added.</span> http://cgi.ebay.com/VTG-ELECTROLUX-LX-RETRO-50S-CANISTER-VACUUM-CLEANER-/220818022849
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