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RainbowD4C That's kind of what I've been doing lately, only waiting for machines that I've always wanted to pop up online and then buy them. When I was younger, I'd beg my parents and grandparents to buy me just about any machine that I'd see, regardless if I actually liked them. Whether it be...

This is just a recounting of the handful of times I used my Kirby G7 to shampoo. If you want to try the recipe, do so at your own risk of you, your Kriby, and your carpets. A few years back my dad got me a Kirby G7 for my birthday off of Craigslist. It had all of the basic accessories that I...

This is something that I've been trying to grapple with recently. Ever since I got my DD Breeze Bagless, my desire to get other Dirt Devil machines has been reignited. Some of them include the DD Power Pak, Visions, old-school Featherlites, 7200 Upright style machines, a DD Sweeper Plus, and so...

Sorry it's been a minute since I came back to this thread. Thanks for the input in the meantime. I already kind of figured that these were made exclusively for vacuum stores, but I wasn't expecting them to be so expensive on the secondhand market. I'm not scratching at the bits for one of them...

Lesinutah Wdym by you've seen outrageous prices? Have you seen them on Ebay? If so, what search terms, if any, did you use? Also Rugsucker, if I were to buy it (not saying I necessarily will), I'd want it vacuumed and extracted well beforehand. It also looks like it needs to be flattened...

Rugsucker Yeah! Like those. Depends, how much would you be willing to sell it for, and is the Midwest too far? (I don't feel comfortable giving out personal information here).

Wdym?

Does anybody know where I can find those rugs in vacuum stores that have vacuum logos on them? Some of the ones I've seen are ones for Hoover, Eureka, Sharp, Sebo, and others. Whenever I try looking them up, I can't find them. I really want to one or two for my rooms.

Hoover300 Yeah, I put an image of one in my reply to you. It was pretty blurry though (sorry about that, BTW).

JustJunque You're welcome, I suppose. Though, it was a minuscule amount of help to the environment, and I pretty much only saved it because it was a machine that I really liked. If it were something like a modern Bissell, A Rainbow D4, or another machine that I either dislike or don't care much...

PanasonicVac I know. Part of me wants to get a few other variations of this machine (i.e., a Swivel Glide model, a blur and/or yellow model, and a bagged model), but I'm pretty sure that's going to happen. At most, I'd want to get a blue bagged model, and the dark red one with the orange and...

Hoover300 Yeah, there were a ton of variations, name changes, and feature additions to this type of machine. Some of the ones I've found are the DD Swivel Glide variants, some called the DD Swift, a rebadged Regina variet, some called the Jaguar, and some Vax variants from across the pond. It's...

Basically me right now:

After 16 years, I finally got one... and only days after getting that Lift Off. I now have a late 2000s-early 2010s Dirt Devil Breeze bagless upright vacuum! This is a machine that I've been wanting to get my hands on for a long time now, ever since I saw them un stores, at one of my old...

PanasonicVac What I meant was that the motor on mine sounds alright, except for when you shut it off. The motor then sounds like it's caked with dust, which shouldn't be the case if this was NOS. The more likely explanation is that the bearings are indeed dry from it sitting for so long in its...

PanasonicVac I used mine to clean my upstairs, and I gotta say, it was nice to use. It's been a while since I used an upright at my mom's house after I more-or-less retired her Bissell 82H1 and my DD Featherlite bagged. Though, it didn't seem to pick up much when I felt the bag. I don't know if...

Fan-of-fans That's one of my critiques of this machine. They put in the effort to make the brushroll shut off when it's in tje upright position, but didn't bother to allow it to be shut off? What's the logic behind that? Especially considering that they advertise it as being "bare-floor...

Personally, I consider them to be good quick clean-up vacs. They're easy to pull out, use, and put away. I wouldn't say they're great daily-drivers, though, and I certainly don't think they're worth Oreck's asking priced for them (cough cough, XL Classics). My XL9100 somehow groomed certain...

Blackheart I sure hope so, though I'm not sure how often I'll use it, considering how rare it is. Then again, I've got what I believe is 29-ish bags. This machine was probably Bissell's best, not just because it pioneered the lift-away design, but because I think it was the first to use HEPA...

Wstonehockertv I'm not sure what the serial number is, nor how to date it. These were produced from I believe 1998-early 2000s.