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Hi Ben and All, I know Chicago Mike is. I tried to order an Omega patch from him but he gets busy. I have worked on a lot of Kirby’s but not newer than the D80. For me even though it is an old machine the Omega is new for me LOL. I could change the fan on the old one easy and fast at the shop...

Hello Calem member Cb123 and All, I have an Omega with a cracked safety switch it did work but not so good in pieces like that. I was given a parts Omega it just had the motor, head light casting and front fan casting with the safety switch. I have to thank Cb123 as I never replace a safety...

Hello Tom, What might be left in the way of upright Singer Vacuums? Such as any of the A-Series, R-Series and S-Series? I also need an odd part for a Hoover 305 or another 305. Thank you for your time, Pete

Hello Jeff and All, I agree that it should be a rubber bumper. It looks like if I can get the bumper for a 189 it would work as it should be about the same size. There is a new Royal UR38200 with a black bag and black trim but the bumper looks like it is thicker and too wide for the 129. In...

Hello All, My grandmother had Asthma and she had a Rexair Model B. My grandfather had to get it because of her breathing problems. They used it up until about 1958 when they bought a Hoover Convertible which was okay as the paper bags did work good. They put the Rexair in the garage and after...

Hello Frank, Jeff and All, That is interesting and the 3rd picture that shows the bag puffed up is similar to how I remember the bag on my mom's Royal with the brush roll. I have no idea why I remember that the bag was black unless my buying the Royal made the memory kick back in. I bought it...

Hi Ben, I think the keeeeeyboard made me do it. It just couldn't be my brain or fingers that made me type the wrong number, right. Thank you, Pete

Hello All, Jeff and Frank, Yes, it is shinny under the nameplate of the Royal 129. I cleaned the nameplate and belt cover as much as I could without removing the black paint. Also I bent part of the inner nozzle rug plate as best I could and it now fits but I believe the original would fit...

Hello Rob and All I just talked to James at Kirby Service Shop in Plano Texas, a really nice person. He looked in all his boxed up D80s and none of them had the green #192967 power cord with them. Well I snoozed and lost out on 2 of them on eBay. You know that saying "you snooze, you lose", yep...

Hi Jeff, I was brain dead, the nameplate is held on with screws not rivets, I will take it off tomorrow. What do you think about the bumper being leather which seems strange? Could it be original to the Royal or did someone make it? I think it might come close to being one my favorites. Thank...

Hi Rob, I will give them a call. I have been unable to get any good deals here on older Kirbys. I did get some a few years ago but not since. Thank you, Pete

Hello Ben, You confirmed what I thought, thank you. It just seems odd that someone would replace a bag going backwards instead of forward in model time or use a non Kirby bag. I think going for wand the bag would have been red? It could have been what was in their stock at the time. What ever...

Hello All and Kirby Experts, Okay in the 70’s and early 80’s I worked for a shop. I do not remember working on anything newer than a Kirby Dual Sanitronic 80. Back then the big thing for all the older Kirbys was putting on the wide wheels for shag carpeting, front bearings and leaking bags. So...

Hello Frank and Jeff, Wow, so there really was a black Royal bag and it is not me having marbles in my head of a memory that went back to 1953. I don’t remember if the Royal had a headlight or not nor do I remember what the belt cover looked like. I remember the sound of that old Royal and the...

Hello Royal fans, I have added 8 pictures of my Royal Model 129 and a picture of my 189. I thought the nozzle plate from my 189 would fit the 129, it did not as the 129 has a much thicker front and rear lip. I could flatten the nozzle plate inner edges and it would work as I have 2 of the plates...

Hello Mike, That is a nice looking Royal Royalette. P. A. Geier Co. I guess made a verity of small hand held vacuums. Yours is only the second one I have seen. I have 2 Singer small hand held vacuums a H-7 and an H-10 and they seem to be everywhere like the Royal hand held with the revolving...

Hello All, I decided that this should be add to this thread as it is where it belongs. So a few days ago I found a Hoover Model 1170 Dial-A-Matic with Automatic Power Drive. I liked it and because I had worked on the non-power drive models. I also bought a Royal Junior Model 81 because I liked...

Hi Jake, I believe the UK Senior and the US Convertible are the same. There are 3 pictures of one I sold on eBay a few months back. Pete

Hello All and Jeff of hygiene903, You know how at times you just can't pass something up. Well that was the case with this little guy. I had never seen one of these before even back in the 70's and 80's when I worked at a shop. There is something familiar about the odd style of paint on it but I...

Hello All, I drove about 15 miles to pick this Hoover 1170 up. It was a one owner and do to death had not been used for a number of years. It is complete except for the owner’s pamphlet. It sounds great but both belts are rotten and unusable. I think they are Hoover package of 2 belts Style 49...