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  1. beekeyknee

    My Grandmothers Kirby Classic III

    In 1976 a Kirby salesman came to my Grandparents door and wanted to demonstrate. She allowed it. The price started out high and when my Grandmother refused he would come down a bit. They kept going back and forth and finally he said he would give her a trade in allowance for her old vac and let...
  2. beekeyknee

    Kirby sani 7 tired old vac?

    Don't count on your Kirby coming back from the rebuild department with the right colored trim or attachments. I sent in my Classic III one time and it came back with a grey bumper and a few wrong colored attachments. The next time I sent it in I specificly told them if they didn't have the right...
  3. beekeyknee

    Convertible 36

    Are genuine green Hoover bags better than these white Chinese ones or about the same?
  4. beekeyknee

    Convertible 36

    Those pictures were bad. I took them with my iPad and thought they'd be good, but they're too small.
  5. beekeyknee

    Convertible 36

    I'm liking this Convertible 36 better all the time. The brush sound just stopped. I didn't have to fix it. The only thing I don't like is the short cord and the attachment gate is broken. Is it worth or possible to fix these problems? When my membership renewal time is due on AW I'm going to...
  6. beekeyknee

    Green Acres Vacuum Cleaner Sighting!

    "Hello, this is Lisa Douglas on the pole." LOL. It's funny in innuendos you miss as a child.
  7. beekeyknee

    Hoover Convertible Thrift Find

    It makes the same sound with the belt off. I turned the fan by hand and can hear quiet clicking sounds a regular intravals. It has to be brush noise. The comutator was clean and shiny. I may take the hood off and take the brushes out and see if the clicking stops. Then I'll know. It could be...
  8. beekeyknee

    Hoover Convertible Thrift Find

    I've already done all of that, so it might be the lower bearing. It's odd though. After I cleaned and lubed the bearing it startede turning smoother. And it's not loose either. No slop at all. It seemed like it had something to do with how the top bearing plate went back on. When I adjusted it...
  9. beekeyknee

    Hoover Convertible Thrift Find

    Cord Length? Pardon my ignorance, but since the plug has been replaced on this machine, what is the proper length of the cord for this model? It's 15 ft. , 9 inches long. Seems kind of short. When I tore down the machine for it's rebuild, I wasn't quite able to get the motor as quiet as it was...
  10. beekeyknee

    Convention 2014.............Did it really happen?

    How fun. I toured the Kirby plant in 2000 and I still remember all the Kirbys setting on their Plexiglass boxes in the lobby.
  11. beekeyknee

    Hoover Convertible Thrift Find

    Thought I'd sneek over from the washer side and show you guys what I found yesterday. I must be reverting back to my youth as I was wild about vacuums then, so yesterday I went hunting for some unknown reason and found this. It's nothing extreamly special but it was in really good shape so I...
  12. beekeyknee

    Seeing as this has been spoken of in the Junior forum... Abandoned houses!!

    YBS Headquarters Chris (Turbo500), That's a lovely building you have there. We have our share too, no doubt. I think what keeps these monstrosities up is multifacited. The cost of tearing them down in a crowded urban setting is high. There is probably hazordous materials inside which would or...
  13. beekeyknee

    My Kirby G5 smells FUNKY.

    Odors Away My Mother just bought a new Kirby today so I thought I'd come over here and snoop around a little. I'm from the other side, as some of you will know. Mark- I don't know if you know it or not, but Odors Away smells just like Kirby Odorific used to smell. I ran across it a few years...
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