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Bamboo one is serial 429

Well... It's actually a suction control. Bare floors is full suction, on rugs it diverts some air there is no stop so you can position it in the middle and have half suction, so it really is a power control. The bristles behind the suction opening on the bottom float on two springs. There is a...

The bamboo one has never been out of the box, it's still stapled on one side and someone opened the box and it ripped in the middle. The one with the weird nozzle it looks like someone just briefly tested it in the store so there is little dust in it either (that particular thrift store always...

Here is zoomed in on the nozzle. The photos were better resolution than what they came out after I uploaded. I'll get the serial #s up in a little while.

Well this is kind of crazy but I found two basically new Electrikbrooms at two different thrifts in a 4 day period. Thought I'd share them. My grandma used to have one similar in color to the tan one.

This is going to be hard to find. It was hard to find before Fantom went out of bussiness. I bought a wildcat at a Kmart that was closing back in 2001 before Fantom even closed for $7.99 brand new at 95% off on the last day. It was darn near impossible to get a bin. I found one after calling...

Mostly cleaned up I haven't done the powerhead yet since I'm going to order some new edge brushes. As far as warranty is concerned I worked at the local office and know the one manager so they'd probably warranty it for me. I'm going to call them and get the serial number switched so they have...

I cut them off when I toss a vac in case I get a vac that has a damaged cord.

Serial # 20200650 underneath that 111 I'm in the process of cleaning it now. It looks like it was hardly used and they put it in a shed or garage. Maybe buyer's remorse?

Was so stoked I didn't even look that closely at the powerhead. It works perfectly fine. It's actually internally clean only the external is really dirty, like someone stuffed it in a shed after a few months. I'm going to clean it tomorrow. Gonna call the distributor and have them put my name...

Just scored this Rainbow at Goodwill for $20! It works fine, it's just externally dirty like it was sitting in a shed. Cleanup will commence tomorrow.

They do run warm As a precaution take the motor and clean the fan vanes with a pipe cleaner. Make sure the lint clean out is clean.

They're not too uncommon in the Western NY area I still see them fairly often, they imported through here and there seems to be a disproportionately high number of them compared to elsewhere. I just bought another Fury a couple of weeks ago and a Thunder just last week. I have pretty much a...

Probably pricing pressure I doubt Sears really cares too much as to who makes the machine or it has anything to do with their current financial issues, remember they had private branded Fantoms back in the day. All they care about is profitability, it lasting through warranty, and selling...

Oh I wouldn't say they're that uncommon. Around here you find them all the time, aside from two SE Furys last summer that were well overpriced, I buy pretty much all that I find, I've gotta have more than a dozen Furys at the moment. Even the most uncommon Fantom products were made in droves...

Looks really rough. I'm in the US but picked one up sans headlight cover for $6 like two weeks ago. Parts are limited in the US, I'd guess next to impossible in the UK. Decent vac but it's not a Thunder.

Saw some interesting stuff today. Twin Chamber Tempo, Black Oreck XL, Windtunnel V2 bagless, older Hoover that had a hand vac that mounts onto the front. The Oreck was in great shape, but I typically only buy Fantoms and higher end stuff these days due to space constraints.

There isn't really a harm in buying it. You'll still be covered by buyer protection, the funds will be on hold and if they send you a fake or never send it you'll get a refund.

I may have these. I wil, check tomorrow.

Most Rainbow distributors operate the same way and don't do this. This sounds like a clever trick by someone down the chain or some smaller distributor that worked up the chain and is doing it independently. Clever though, clean a few rooms disgust the person and sell the vac or if not still...