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An ebay seller is a friend of mine and she often offers me interesting old Kenmore vacs. I have bought from her in the past, both parts and whole vacuums. Early today I saw a really rare Kenmore Whispertone from the late 80's or maybe 1990 with a variable speed motor. It included the...

Something I stumbled across. http://www.costco.com/Rotho%C2%AE-Twin-TT-Aquafilter-Vacuum.product.100074673.html It reminds me in concept of the Douglas Hydro Flow Home Cleaning System. Anyone have one of these or have some hands on with them? The price seems reasonable. Do you have to use...

I'm wondering if the twin spouts are easily removed and replaced by a single spout a bag could be mounted to? Alternatively, could the bag just be something like a trash bag liner that lines the inside of the dirt compartment but doesn't fit tight to a spout? Just conjecturing because I have...

Five bucks and look how clean it is! Well bought.

Somewhere on the vacuum there will be a data tag with the model number. Using the model number, you can look your vacuum up in Sears Parts Direct and find the part number of the dust bag. If you wish, give me the model number and I'll look it up for you. The model number will have a three...

I'm looking at the mystery object hanging on the wall and I think I am seeing some sort of pedal on a steel arm to the right of center. It almost looks like the height adjuster pedal on some powered floor brushes. Why would a canister vacuum have that on it's body?

I can vouch for the cheap materials and assembly of the Ryobi built Singer. How did Ryobi fit into the picture? When were they building Singer machines? Did Ryobi build Singer branded machines or only those branded for other sellers such as Kenmore? One other thing that I am curious about...

I don't fear Chinese investing their money in the US as some do. For one thing, they can't cart US real estate off to China with them. Second, when you think about it, these are born in China Han Chinese who have so little confidence in their own country they are taking their money and...

No one had to smack my behind to make me value the fruit of my hard work Kenkart. It just comes from having to work for everything I own, long hours at sometimes miserable jobs (until my current one) and having to defer purchases because the money just wasn't there. Darned if I was going to...

Well, how about stickies? On many motorcycle and car forums, threads with significant technical information that member may want to reference in the future are posted at the top of each section and remain there. They don't move down as new postes are added so you don't have to search them.

With canister vacuums I always wonder if the 12 amp rating I often see for them includes the amp draw of the powered floor brush. The other thing is if you look at other motor specs, very often motors that are rated around 10.5 to 11 amps maximum have very different performance in terms of air...

Very good. Thank you.

Good grief! I'm speechless in frustration. Well, can we at least have a section where we can save our own technical know how and experience with particular brands and models of vacuum? There is a wealth of technical know-how in our membership, tech tips, restoration techniques, what fits...

It offends on many levels that an appliance that suffers a minor failure that could be repaired and keep the appliance in service many years longer will be thrown out for a calculated lack of sparing. One failed part will condemn all the rest to the landfill or a shredder. I suppose you could...

AutomaticEphemera.org huh? Have to give it a look. Thanks. Still, we need to collect vacuum related knowledge right here and make it searchable for members and enthusiasts.

It is becoming very hard for western and Japanese firms to do business in China. Police raids and arrests of top management on what can charitably be called questionable charges and general hostility towards western firms is forcing many to re-evaluate doing business there. What happened to...

I have only seen FSP on the plastics of the Avocado Bomber.

Many discussion board have stickies, threads that never go away and are usually displayed at the top of the active threads. The stickies for old catalogs, for example, would be at the very beginning of the Vintage section. This site isn't that, how to say, full featured but please don't...

My luck, scanning the thumbnails of the 1986 XMas catalog I found a page depicting that Singer/Ryobi/Kenmore thing I have along with what I think is my gray 4.1 but the full size image won't load. Naturally. Neat page though. Bookmarked and thank you.