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What a Pile of Junk The store owner probably bought (buys) the trade in vacs from the Kirby salesmen. These are machines he DOESN'T want to rebuild and sell, since no one (except some club members) wants them. When new Bissell PowerForce, 12 amps with on-board tools, are $39 at Wal-Mart, why...

Fred: Buster B bags won't work unless you cut the cardboard. GE sold their dies to Eureka for the Wisk, which is exactly the GE MV1 (which I have) and the MV2. I have extra bags for the GE if you need them, will give them to you at the Mini Meet in St. Louis. T.G.

DirtMasteR The DirtMasteR was made in two different versions, and they made it for almost four years. It cost less than a twin motor (Super Chief) model. It was the VERY FIRST twin fan upright in the world. Singer would later copy that feature. It was also the VERY FIRST side mounted hose for...

Gold Rexair with Rainbow Decal I have one of those model D Rexair machines with the Rainbow decal on the front. It looks as if Mr. Hill just took a paint brush and painted it on. Not very 'classy' but very rare to find. I got mine from a very old man in Denver who used to own a vac shop. Last I...

signature series (anniversary model) air-way vacuumkid3: In 2000, Air-Way decided to give door to door sales a try again, and I went to the Air-Way factory in Alabama to design and update a new version of the Sanitizor. I called it the Centurion 2000, and it had many new features such as the...

Rocketwarrior: Are you sure you need the tank part. I have a gold HandyWay, just like yours but gold in color with chrome end bells. I would LOVE to have the chrome one like yours with the attachments. If you do indeed HAVE to use the chrome body, could I get the hose and tools from you. Yes, it...

PowerCast My PowerCast is one of my favorite vacs in the collection of 442 machines. I got mine in St. Louis at the last Convention. Charlie Watrous brought it (brand new) to use as a door prize at the Cocktail party to annouce Morgan's candidacy for President of the Club. My good friend Don...

DirtMasteR I didn't realize that the DirtMasteR was all that rare. I have one and so does Stan Kann. So does Mike Pletcher, and several others in the club. The difference between the DirtMasteR and the Hoover Z is that the DirtMasteR actually works PROPERLY and does indeed clean, unlike the...

Morgan: When I was at the Air-Way factory in 2000, talking Steve Tomberlin into the design for the Signature Series, we talked about using Filtrete bags. 3-M had sent Steve a sample. At that time, the machine to produce the paper used in Air-Way's bag was fine. Of course, it was a very old...

What a Monstrosity I think the Hoover engineers were smoking something wicked when they came up with the idea for the "Z". And then, to get it past the marketing department, what kind of drugs are they doing in North Canton? Didn't anyone, from the board of directors on down, say to the...

Zepter Marketing The Cleansy water filtration vacuum is a type of machine known as a NON-SEPARATOR water filtration system. That means there is a small amount of water in the bucket, with a LARGE amount of space above, along with splash baffles. Instead of using an air-water separator to keep...

Fred: Part of the problem has been that, for many VCCC members, they do not work on their own cleaners. So, they aquire one at a garage sale (or wherever), and it has loud bearings or a worn out brush. They never do anything with it. They bring it to convention, thinking of trading it. Except...

Eureka was one of the brands, owned by Electrolux Sweden. To not compete directly with Electrolux U.S. (which was a separate company until 2003), Electrolux Sweden decided to call the machine a "Viking". After all, they also owned the Viking Sewing Machine Company (as well as the White Sewing...

tolivac: You are a VCCC member? I forget that our forum is open to everyone, and not just club members. That's definately a problem we need to address at the next meeting of the board of directors. In any event, the vacs thrown away were vacs BROUGHT to the meeting BY VCCC members, who did...

David: As a VCCC member, you ARE 'well connected'. You know everyone you need to know for all your vacuum needs, both current or vintage. VCCC members have discussions all the time about eBay and what its done to the collecting hobby. There are many, laughable examples of eBay stupidity, both...

high bidder stupidity Derreck: I'm so glad I talked you out of bidding on that crappy old Hoover 69. Remember laughing about morons like the high bidder on this auction, at the VCCC gathering in Chicago a couple weeks ago? Charlie W. led the round of laughter at the stupidity of people with...

Air-Way photos My friends Derreck Fricke and John Pease (both VCCC members) are coming to my home this coming Saturday to get out all 442 of my vacuums from the vacuum 'room' and we are going to arrange them and clean them up to show at the upcoming St. Louis Gathering of the VCCC (Mini Meet)...

MotorHead Steven: If you are a member of the VCCC, and want to come to our St. Louis Vacuum Gathering (Mini Meet) the first weekend in December, I'll show you the upcoming Dyson canister with electric Power Nozzle. I have one.

UltraLuxDereck My good friend Derreck came to my home on Saturday evening, and we went through just a small portion of the vacuum room. Derreck brought his digital camera, and we also took pictures of my UltraLux that he gave to me. I LOVE this machine, not only because it came from Derreck...

Dyson RIP OFF The Infinity is a joke. Mostly because it isn't possible for the machine to work properly. Our Club Dyson works properly, as we show at EVERY meeting, because the tapered cyclones prevent the fine dust from cloggin the pre-motor filter. In fact, our CLUB Dyson has sucked up more...