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I guess I'm just at a loss for why people tend to so strongly believe central vacs can't retain their perforce just because of the long distance the air has to flow. Yes, I could conceive of a way to install the plumbing to ensure it loses most of its airflow, just use all tight 90s and sweep...

I've seen some older central units that use basically a FilterQueen or Tri-Star type motor. I was expecting the power to be worse than the portable machines they shared the motor with, but even when installed in a system, at the end of a long hose and pipe system, it had better power than the...

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Probably should! For my safety as much as its own!! Well, I got home and played with it a bit, runs good, but a bit dry sounding. And overall its fairly clean. It still will be getting the proverbial ‘Full Monte’ of a service job soon. I pulled out the barely used paper bag and put an MD...

Can’t type much yet, stopped at a red light. More later…

Years ago, probably 2007 or 2008 it was, I received a rather frantic contact from the great Alex B regarding a Hoover on Craigslist that needed to be grabbed up immediately. Naturally, I was very curious, and BEHOLD, it was the Bicentennial floating Celebrity with the P/N!!!!! Of course, I...

Wildly inaccurate! I will spare everyone every detail, but no… As far as is known to the world, Eric is doing well, keeping to himself and staying busy running the family business.

The main reason I've delayed new glasses so long... Is because, I too, have gone through the same change of life. I definitely am a loyal contact wearer these days!

All this talk of transitions has reminded me that I really need a new pair of glasses... With Transitions Lenses, obviously...

Such monsters for a blender! I thought I remembered it being a 4000 you got!

I don’t know that it’s extremely rare or anything, just uncommon. Usually you see some of the newer models going around cheap, but I’ve only managed to find just a container at a thrift store for one of these, and Id have bought it ‘just to have when I find one’ but it was in poor shape with a...

Not something you see often, and the only one I’ve seen in person. I’ve seen many of the newer ones and how they work, but these old chrome monsters I just don’t see. But I got lucky and found one out in Utah during a recent trip to Las Vegas for the VDTA. Its an absolute monster of a machine...

Oh I’ve always wanted to dredge up and old thread With something genuinely interesting and relevant. A couple weekends ago Colin visited from Omaha, and we went thrifting... found something interesting!

Been looking for a place to put these...

Word on the street says... Well, someone should give our friend the message, being associated with Jason Huber so closely is a true liability in this social world. Jason is truly unhinged and has done and said some very awful and truly unforgivable things to a LOT of people. Just being Facebook...

Its not available as a separate part, its a part of the motor. It would have to be identical, as they are specific to the motor variation, as well as which series of electronics is in the rest of the machine. Its best to just look for a complete motor from a donor machine, or bite the bullet...

I hate being a wet blanket (well sometimes, but not trying to be here) but in all honesty, if you wanted a quiet unit, this one will likely never be able to meet your wants there. Also, this thing will get much louder over time, as these don’t use a filter, it’s a “true cyclonic” unit and all of...

We had a canister when I was little. Mom and dad preferred the canister’s flexibility over an upright. Dad grew up with a central vac, grandma always had one during my life. My mom’s mother always had an upright and a shop vac. They use the shop vac like a canister, never understood why not just...

Please don’t cause a fire!! I assume you were running a heater off of this? That’s something you just can’t really do on an extension cord, even one rated properly. The issue is there will always be voltage drop in the cord, unless it has EXTREMELY thick wires. This voltage drop causes the...

Which vault? There are simply so many, I’ve by no means seen them all, but once I gain some curiosity I tend to have little trouble finding out what’s inside. I too am a friend of the Oompa Loompas, and I can tell you, the biggest secret is: Mr Wonka has no secrets.