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Very cool. I have often wondered what the old Warsaw Pact used to vacuum their homes with, or if they even had vacuums. Bet they were confined to the elite nomenklatura and not widely available to the proletariate. I'm sure the motor turned the opposite direction of a Hoover motor. The...

I just finished refurbishing one of those! Figuring out a premotor filter is a challenge. The original filter is not available. This is not the same body as the full sized Kenmore canisters of that era. They look the same but are only 3/4 the size of the ones you are thinking of and it...

Stricklybojack, I have one of those smaller machines you described as well! Until last month I didn't even know they existed. I saw it on Craigslist, saw the unusual lid with the tools set into recesses cast into the lid instead of on a detachable tool tray and thought, oh cool, another...

Darn, Tom, yours is so beautiful! Mine is 116.29971 and had a different pre-motor filter, otherwise identical. I forgot there was a big tag around the High/Low switch saying High and Low. Something else that was lost, sigh. I have to dig around my fiancees garage once more and see if I can...

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Oooof. What a find. Two large sitting on the side of the road. Guess you can call it a Curby Now think about how many people drove by that vacuum and didn't see what you saw. Lucky? Yes, but luck is when preparation meets opportunity. In a way you earned that one. Good job.

This is my favorite really old Kenmore canister. 4.1 peak horses, variable speed motor via a dial on the rear of the lid that operates a potentiometer and the off/on/floor switch was on the hose. The original hose fell apart circa 2007 or 2008 and when I re-hosed it I wasn't even thinking of...

Can you scan that page and show it here or e-mail it to me? I have no literature on mine. I would really appreciate it.

Supersweeper, if you take the prices Sears was charging for those and inflate them to 2014 dollars you were paying the equivalent of $1000 today to buy one of those. They were very expensive vacuums.

I have one of those. That's the Avocado Bombers twin brother. The lower half is a medium green with just a hint of blue in it. The top is mint green. The lower half is steel and the lid plastic. If you pop the palm of your hand on and off the hose end while it's running there is enough lid...

Might be sptyks, but have you ever worked a joint project with the Chair Force? Nothing is too expensive for them.

Hey Tom, want to save a rare Kenmore from being parted out on ebay? An ebay seller I know has a late 1980's Whispertone with the infinitely adjustable speed motor. It has the unique hose with the sliding speed adjustment on top, a three position off/on/floor switch facing the operators thumb...

Making a cord with the necessary ends is a great idea. Keep all the original stuff original. Make the cord up out of items that are not collectable or otherwise valuble. I did that to adapt a Wessel-Werk brush to a Kenmore wand.

It doesn't matter what country you want to talk about, the Chinese anywhere will cut any corner they think they can get away with to make a buck. You don't apparently live with Chinese people as I do. I'm in a mixed Chinese family. It's a gold rush mentality. It doesn't matter which country...

Those gold plated Kirbys must be something the US Air Force ordered. They gold plate everything they buy. Just saying .................... Probably use them for vacuuming the clubhouse at the golf course.

In theory, yes. But you would have to make sure the replacement outlet is sized the same as the original. Putz around an old hardware store that has been in business a few decades. They will likely have what you are looking for or know where to get it. I have to say that it would be helpful...

There are no significant import duties on major appliances manufactured in Mexico and sold in the US. I don't know where Bloomberg gets their information from. A lot of Whirlpool, Samsung and Panasonic products are assembled in Mexico for this very reason.

So this thing has to have water filtration for dry vacuuming? No bags. Hmmm. I like the idea of one machine being able to do both dry vacuuming and wet extraction but not crazy about water filtration for dry vacuuming.

Shucks, when I tried the link it said the video was private.

I found a November 1933 newspaper ad for a House Maid vacuum with the price shown in Pounds Sterling. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19331117&id=Z_NUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8JEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3416,1872769