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Pics of UltraLux Derreck is bringing his camera to my home today to take photos of my collection (and my beautiful UltraLux that he gave me). We'll be posting them very soon. Figured everyone might like to see what I'm talking about. It's one of my all time favorite vacs.

dirtmaster Charlie: The DirtMasteR had two FANS, not two Motors. I own a DirtMasterR that I got from Mike Hays years ago. It's really a very good machine, Stan Kann's has a worn out baffle and so, low suction. Mine has a good rubber baffle, and has a TON of suction. Excellent Cleaner, the...

Air-Way power heads Air-Way's first power nozzle that they built themselves was in 1972. It was the metal RugMasteR. It came with a white painted handle, and the head was turquoise. Then, a chrome handle was launched in 1974. In '75, the nozzle was polished (it was made of aluminum) so it...

Air-Flow VS suction Suction is also knows as water lift. That's the pressure that the motor's fan (or fans) develops. Air-Flow is the amount of air moving through the machine. The filter (or bag) will restrict the airflow through the machine, as well as the clogging effect of dirt. SO, a vacuum...

UltraLux Our new VCCC member, Derreck, is the branch manager for Electrolux (Aerus) in St. Louis. I'll ask him to post a picture of the UltraLux for you. I LOVE MINE. It's such a nice cleaner, and with 100 inches of lift (from the new VM3 motor), it's a fantastic machine at cleaning. You should...

Love it, Love it Derreck: I love my 75th Anniversary upright. It's a beautiful machine to use as well as to look at. I wanted it for two reasons, it would complete the collection, AND, it came from you. I now have all four anniversary Lux cleaners, the Golden Jubilee, the Diamond Jubilee, the...

The Vaults at Hoover Charles: There are tons of pictures of the "vaults" from Hoover. I was there at that Convention of the collector's club. The Vaults were located Behind the Engineering room. Ironically, at that time, they had a Constellation that was made of clear plastic, with an electric...

Hoover model 0 There were almost (but not quite) three thousand Hoover model 0's made. Certainly they are very rare, but cannot all be gone. Congrats to Kyle on the show as well as being gifted with two very nice machines. The duster is an example of Hoover's first attempt to copy another...

Little Giant Just got out my copy, the vacuum was a Cadillac tank. Which is ironic, because on the old Abbott and Costello show (not the movie) they used a Lux model 12, Swedish Version, repainted. In the movie Poltergeist II, the father moves to California and gets a job selling Electrolux...

New Dyson models There are three new Dysons for America due out in two weeks. One if the hand held DC16 (I'll be showing it off at the October 13th Mini Meet in chicago). The other is the DC17 Absolute, a new upright just for America. The third is launching in January, which is a new canister...

Lux 61 - unique The Electrolux model 61 was one of only TWO vacuums ever made that use both wheels and runners at the SAME TIME. The other was a gold, 1974 Air-Way with full runners and three wheels (one of which swiveled). This made the machine weightless when pulled across a bare floor. I...

Dyson Skip We've never had anyone trade in or sell a Dyson. It would be wonderful if they did, since so MANY people ask me if we have used ones (Dysons) <br I'm not sure if anyone who owns a Dyson would ever be happy with bags again. Certainly not with having to buy them, along with filters...

new Connie I sell the new Hoover Constellation. I buy them from Steel City Vacuum Supply for resale. Have sold 22 so far. Mostly to people who come in wanting to buy an Oreck. I turn on the Connie and they just go crazy for it. I will say that the turbo brush works well on a variety of carpets...

DC14 Skip I don't understand why ANYONE would want to sell their Dyson. I have never had anyone trade in a Dyson, but would LOVE it, then I could sell someone a used one for less than brand new price. People all the time ask me if I ever get used ones, and I always say NO since I don't. You...

Air-Way's new brush roller The only new brush roller offered by CenTec is the current, chevron style. The beater-bar brush, with replaceable bristles, is only available as a repair part. For many rugs, the beater-bar brush is the way to go. However, for newer rugs with very long pile, the new...

Air-Way Signature Series I have a couple Signature Series Air-Way's still in the box. I got them from the Air-Way factory when I went there to oversee the launch of the Signature Series. I brought five of them home, all of them TWO SPEED models, one for me, one for my mother, one for Dr. Dawson...

rainbow repair kirbykid: Bring your Rainbow E2 to the next meeting, and I'll fix it for your for free, under warranty. By the way, that's a DC07 Carpet model Dyson in Derreck's living room, you can barely see it in the picture.

Dyson all the way Our (vccc members) club was GIVEN a DC07 Dyson by James Dyson himself, five years ago. It's serial number is 1. yes, 1. It was the first one in the U.S. other than the home trial models. We (vccc) have used it every year for our cleaning contest. It's picked up MORE dirt at...

Broken E-2 KirbyKid: Your Rainbow has an 8 year warranty. Go to the the www.rainbowsystem.com website and see where the local repair shop is that does warranty work. The computer control module is the problem. Also, the brand new E-2 has the sound reduction package. You can get that added to...

Rainbow E Series Derreck: You are very welcome. I always have a GREAT time with you, working on vacuums and testing them out. Your new E series is excellent. Don't forget that you have an 8 year warranty on the thing. Of course, if it ever needs ANYTHING, I'll fix it for you I LOVE my 75...