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Personally I think it’s simpler to just get a step up transformer and then just the machine in its factory form. I’ve got a couple 240v vacuums in my collection, and I would love some more.

I write with my right hand, but in every other activity I’m ambidextrous. I’ve noticed, when eating steak, for example, most right handed people use their right hand to cut and hold the fork with their left. I’ve always used the knife left handed, if fact it feels clumsy to use my right hand...

Alex Tabor once emptied a water bed with a Kirby that had two hoses attached, one out the window and the other in the mattress drain!

Alex Tabor once emptied a water bed with a Kirby that had two hoses attached, one out the window and the other in the mattress drain!

That’s really ‘flocking’ convenient! I’ve heard of this attachment before! Someone told me about the thing years ago, today so few vacuums have blower ports that you couldn’t really sell them now.

Yikes! Between the bidding and the insane prices, I don’t bother with anything on eBay unless it has the buy it now option! And that’s assuming the price isn’t ridiculous already...

Euro Pro/Shark. They don’t even offer parts for repairs!

Here is a picture of mine, I do have the whole thing, even though not all is shown here.

If I could get my hands on one of the newer style 3D printers that print solid plastic parts, I could have loads of fun printing up bag adapters for all kinds of machines, so one could install the adapter and then just use a modern, easy to find bag in a machine where bags are not made anymore.

I truly love those old GE uprights! I’ve seen lots of vintage machines with the wrong bag attached, some took more creativity than others to get to work... Drives me nuts! I’m not dead set on machines being 100% correct, but I expect them to at least look like it. I’m not generally particular...

Those Royal commercial tanks are actually fairly rare, I would personally suggest leaving it as is, as that cord is part of what made that machine unique.

Intelligence and education are two different things. I’ve seen it time and time again, someone comes into the store with what was a simple problem at first, but then they messed with it, but they’re an engineer... My personal favorite was an idiot that bought a reconditioned typewriter from us...

I’d venture a bet that bag isn’t securely attached! The Kirby bag bottom opening is much larger than the NSS one.

I think you’re wiring the power switch wrong. I see green wire in the black wire spot and vice versa... Here is a picture based on the labeling of the switch.

I couldn’t pass up that $9.50 price! You just know they’re losing plenty of money on this deal! Will share my thoughts once I get the thing!

I absolutely love my 913s!

Definitely B bags! These, like the 7000/8000 series Tacony machines, have the larger bag chamber, the A bag will be kinda small in this machine!

I know that machine as a Eureka Maxima ( I always called it the Minima). Definitely don't see as many as I used to... Thankfully!

At least on carpet, I don't generally find the P/N pushes larger things around, my Riccar P/N has always eaten everything!

Those P/Ns are Eureka made units. Personally I'd recommend getting a Eureka VG1 (flat, helical shaped aluminum brush roll) from another P/N and using that instead of the wood one. Those black painted have oversized black ends, I've seen them put too much strain on the housing and break things.