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yes, have used it for two (way too short) weeks I had this very machine in my house for 2 weeks, with the exact powerbrush that is shown in the auction. Deep cleaning carpets works as good with it as with a Kirby, just awesome. Above floor cleaning and floor vacuuming is great as well, the air...

Thanks! thanks Walter, so a ZA 70, ok. I cannot remember having seen it in our country ever. Only the Z 65. Seems like Electrolux has as many gaps in their timeline as Kirby does (variations and other models popping up now and again). And I wonder whether a 100% complete and concise list exists...

Today I stumbled across this one, a model that I've never seen before. Who knows something about it? (expired ad in the link) http://www.ricardo.ch/kaufen/antiquitaeten-und-kunst/antike-technik-und-geraete/sonstiges/antiker-staubsauger/v/an636209008/

XXX? Have used some of them, but who is XXX company?

nope. The two-pins plugs have an identical distance of the pins compared to a Euro plug. The problem is elsewhere: There is nothing but Schuko wall sockets here, ungrounded flat 2 contacts wall sockets having gone during the late 60s. So getting an adaptor from 2-pin ungrounded to "shaped"...

hi Al, yes obviously so. Sorry for the delay, I've been a bit preoccupied with my brother being in hospital. The plug seems to be of rubber or vinyl, it looks mushroom shaped, There is a Hoover logo (well just the lettering in capitals) on it, on the other side there is a patent number. From...

Today I got my first Hoover Dustette EVER! So glad I have it! It is still in its original box with handle and closing hook/rivet. Ah, what a beauty! And so many well thought-of details! The motor is surrounded by the exhaust air, the bag has this little wire "spine" to keep it up and bulging...

yet still... ...I would LOVE to find any strange Kirby mechanism, be it useful or not. It is just the "oddness" of it that fascinates me. And I pay for it. So where is the "weird" list? ;-))))

LOL ;-) right, I got you. But what I mean is just pointing out to those many "practical" and impractical gadgets that Kirby is famous for. Btw. I love Wallace & Grommit, they remind me of Jim Kirby and this notorious poster of him sitting at a drawing board, a Kirby vacuum just next to him...

parts for heritage II legend (black + grey) I have the upright, the caddy box and some tools in it (yet not complete). Anything beyond this is missing. What other parts have you got and what are you willing to ship to Europe?. Missing: Sprayer and foam cap crevice tool and mini brush for it...

Excellent! Thank you! Sam, thanks for this very detailed description, I will save it and use it as a guideline for my own U.F.O. Hoover. I have got the S 3005 as well, just in mustard yellow, not orange. And the nozzle is that combination tool (the one with those red flip levers on either...

cute! want one ;-D How did you find this site? I'd never suspect vacuums to be on a Nintendo page.

those several new Kirby patents... may be nice by the first glance but to IMHO they miss the basic "keep it simple" style. Extra motorized power brush? Why? Then you could just market a good canister. Or in other words: This would make Kirby make their Kirby vacs obsolete by definition. Extra...

sorry for the double post please remove one. thanks Joe

Trebor (Robert Knox) just a tiny remark - or a more expanded vision if you will. The zip brush (Kirby's) and Vorwerk's "Textilbürste" are indeed very much alike. While I cannot make out who invented what first, it is obvious that they follow the same basic scheme. (Rotating disc having...

Trebor (Robert Knox) just a tiny remark - or a more expanded vision if you will. The zip brush (Kirby's) and Vorwerk's "Textilbürste" are indeed very much alike. While I cannot make out who invented what first, it is obvious that they follow the same basic scheme. (Rotating disc having...

neat! would like to have an indicator like this, but as was stated before: when vacuum operated it might have serious misreadings (full bag etc. or empty bag but no longer keeping airflow by concrete dust and all that). I can see only two ways to go: 1. tapping the exhaust air as well...

as a cologne? *shocked here* Goodness! Ok, it might work with somebody who is pleasing to the eye right from the spot on, but would it work with the original Kirby guy? I have my serious and well proven doubts..... The idea by itself is somewhat cheesy to me (if not outright crazy). Ok, I will...

wow, how impressive! Thanks for all the links and information. 30 amps? Now this is what I call reasonable power. Result: Our dealer here is probably selling a gimmick. I love the classic aluminum nozzles! This is how a vac should look like (just my personal taste). And the Hide-A-Hose system...

nice! Good pictures of all the different units. I had a friend who owned one (a Nutone), yet I found the super-long hose a bit ackward to stow away. The more I was fascinated by some internet video about a unit which can retract its hose into the vertical standpipe just by capping its end with...