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    Vorwerk Kobold Motor Help

    Ask Matthias Hi Matthew, it should be next to impossible to get a 110 V motor for your "gnome/Kobold" today (even though Germany used to have 110 in some regions in the early 50s) but you might want to give it a shot and contact Matthias (same name as yours ;-) of "Staubsaugermuseum...
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    Vorwerk Vk-120

    this may sound odd to many of you, but I do not encourage direct-air machines over filter-first ones. The only thing I want is "listen to the customer". Neither Vorwerk nor Kirby do. Both keep pushing models onto the markets (each one with their respective and debatable techniques), each one...
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    Vorwerk Vk-120

    later than the direct air machines it went downhill for me. Vorwerk was THE brand in the DTD market from the 50s/60s till today (The German Kirby brand if you will). Then they started to introduce the filter-first versions (starting with VK 130 aka the "Tamagochi" Kobold), their filter bags...
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    Cat Licking Vac - Yahoo Vid

    this is hilarious: the vac is ON! Alex, you MUST hook up your loudspeakers. This "frrt-frrt-frrt" sound is just funny. Apparently the cat loves the vibration on its tongue in the air stream. This explains the sudden slap of its paw against the suction handgrip when it got stuck on its nose. Way...
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    Antique Street Lamp

    so neat thank you for showing it. Such a nice sight, so cozy!
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    Antique Street Lamp

    sweet! Any chance we can see a night picture of it fully alight? I love the shape of it.
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    Any knowledge about russian vacuums?

    harvesting machines That is interesting, that there were no upright vacs in Russia. I have this mental picture here in my mind about all these heavy harvesting machines (waaaayyyyy larger than the European ones), they look like space-age Royal vacuums out on the corn fields to me, their "roller...
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    Vacuum(ing) Or hoover(ing)

    the emotional side of it While most terms in all those different languages describe but a tiny differentce what comes to "vacuum cleaner" (who cares what is considered lower or lowest pressure?) - I still like the French phrase for vacuuming the best: "passer l'aspirateur" (la passe = the path)...
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    Vacuum(ing) Or hoover(ing)

    seeing this from here I might want to dare say: It doesn't matter to me, both are fine. Electrolux tried to introduce a similar thing here in the German and Northern languages: In the 70s their manuals showed the phrase: "Luxen Sie ihre Polstermöbel wie folgt:" (Lux you upholstery as follows)...
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    Feedback for my Kirby Demo.

    sry for the double post something kept telling me "has not been posted yet". Webmasters please delete the double-post.
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    Feedback for my Kirby Demo.

    90% of my sales were cash, and 80% of my demo's were sal hey Alex, as I am hard to convince, will you please be selling that to me? -> "90% of my sales were cash, and 80% of my demo's were sales" Simple question now: As easy as a cream pie: Why aren't you in the business selling the Kirby...
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    Feedback for my Kirby Demo.

    90% of my sales were cash, and 80% of my demo's were sal hey Alex, as I am hard to convince, will you please be selling that to me? -> "90% of my sales were cash, and 80% of my demo's were sales" Simple question now: As easy as a cream pie: Why aren't you in the business selling the Kirby...
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    Feedback for my Kirby Demo.

    Thanks Alex for liking my comments. No objections shown here? And John opening his wallet hearing your price? Maybe I am not getting this the right way, my English might be too bad (me not knowing a typical metaphorical saying, but are you selling info stuff to someone else?) - Quite puzzled...
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    The Kirby Demo.

    interesting how little... ...the demo has changed over the decades. Even the setup (standing cover of main box) seems to be the same. When I started working for them (just at the changing months from G4 to G5, it was the same here). I am more than looking forward to the "objections -...
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    Electrolux ZA65 parts wanted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I might have some I got this all-must-go Lux package one day, there were several parts included. I am positive that I have got the upper end "open" bags for this vacuum (original Electrolux Z 65). Just let me check this tomorrow.
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    How do YOU access vacuum land?

    computer only desktop computer only here (E-mails answered Friday night by 6.00 p.m. unless I like that person so much that I would answer earlier/more often). Smartphone /mobile /tablet refuser. (That bloody internet should leave me alone while I am out in the real world enjoying a train ride...
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    To all vac shop guys here:

    Sent you an e-mail. Hey, and a brilliant job you did on that celebrity! Nice footage, very detailed ;-)
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    To all vac shop guys here:

    exactly, bags and belts Sam, where is it? Got a link? Joe
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    To all vac shop guys here:

    Some parts for my machines cannot be had here anymore while they are still available in the US. But instead of ordering from spamazon or from any of those vacshops unknown to me, I'd rather be shopping from a fellow member's vac store (provided they ship to Europe). Who can I send my wishlist...
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    Any knowledge about russian vacuums?

    fantastic! These pictures are fantastic, Al! Thanks for supplying. And this streamlined rocket sledge (Unversal) I love best our little Sputnik Connie in the video. To bad I cannot read Kyrillic. Thanks so much everyone. Funny how different components of Western brands seem to have influenced...
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