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Ever since my most recent 'vacquisition' binge over the past few weeks, including acquiring a Eureka 1279-D Power Team, an Electrolux LX, Metropolitan rebuild, completing a Eureka 1746-A Power Team, and the return of a prodigal Electrolux Discovery Plus earlier this week. I've had a curious...

So, for the past couple of years, my Electrolux Discovery Plus (Discovery II with onboard tool storage) has been on long term loan to a friend. Tonight, she came over for dinner and brought the machine back to me. She had been using it to vacuum her area rugs, but had gradually gotten rid of...

So, I met up with fellow Vacuumlander Jl earlier today and went home with an Electrolux LX. It's a Metropolitan rebuild, probably done in the 1205 era, based on the blue paint job. It came with a set of wands, a few tools, and a plastic replacement hose. She also threw in a Eureka VibraGroomer...

I came to realize that last week, I was starting to hijack the thread linked below (replies 14 and 15). Instead of continuing down that path, I decided it would be better to finish off the story here, in its own thread: As the subject line suggests, I now have a Eureka Roto-Matic power head for...

So, my GE Nautilus dishwasher decided to quit draining, and yesterday, I took the inlet and outlet covers off, which was a real chore, and what was underneath was totally gross. From all visual evidence, things should have been working much better after I cleared all that stuff out and water...

I took a walk through Goodwill this evening, and managed to keep my 'sobriety', despite seeing a couple of moderately interesting machines. The easiest to walk away from was a Kirby Gsix with its tool kit for $40. It was in decent shape, but I've got four of them, so there was simply no way...

I attend a very small church, which is perpetually strapped for cash, but we make up for it with an abundance of enthusiasm, energy, and a willingness to step up. We meet in a converted one-story ranch house, where what had been a two-car garage now serves as a combined worship space and...

It's usually a challenge for me to walk away from a Kirby in a thrift store, kind of like an active alcoholic walking past a bar. But last night it was easy. I was walking around a Goodwill store, killing a little time, and saw a Kirby G6 with its tool kit and a shampoo system. I actually...

So, I've been going through some trials and tribulations with the little master bath in my house. I had some tiles falling off of the shower surround, and I contacted a tile guy about putting them back. He had me send him pictures and said there was probably moisture damage behind the tiles and...

Okay, so this isn't exactly appliance-related, but I've got a towel bar in my bathroom, the bottom edge of which is digging into the drywall and its looking more and more awful all the time. I'm beginning to feel like I need to put something behind it to protect the wall from further damage...

Well, I just fell off the wagon. After about 14 months without acquiring any vacuum cleaners, I was at Goodwill this evening when an Electrolux Discovery II upright caught my eye. It was kind of dirty, and when I plugged it in and turned it on, only the straight suction motor came on, not the...

I've had the same profile pic for more than a decade, but yesterday, I came across this one--on my work computer of all places--I decided it was time for a refresh. I took this photo of my cat, Lily, while I was in the midst of reassembling my Heritage '84 after giving it a thorough cleaning the...

About six months ago, I bought a Kirby G4 that 'needed a little work' (we've all been there, right?) and then went back to the thrift store the next day to buy the Gsix that had been sitting next to it as an economical source for the needed parts. I left the Gsix disassembled in my barn to help...

I had a plumber at the house today, and he brought with him the craziest wet/dry shop vac I'd ever seen. It was called a "BucketHead" vac and the motor unit snaps onto a regular five-gallon utility bucket. He said he really liked it because it was smaller than a conventional shop vac, and thus...

It's very rare that I see a Kirby at a thrift store anymore, but tonight, I actually saw three, side-by-side, with accessories—a totally grotty G7 (not Diamond), inexplicably priced at $35 with standard accessories, plus a carpet shampooer, a G4 that looked decent at first glance but had some...

My house came with a Broilmaster gas grill, permanently mounted on the deck and plumbed into the natural gas service. It wasn't new when I moved in here nine years ago, and I had previously fashioned a new handle for the lid from a fence picket. More recently, it had become downright decrepit...

So I met some friends for dinner this evening, and on my way home, I decided to walk around at a nearby Goodwill. When I got to the back of the store, I spotted a cluster of about a half-dozen vacuum cleaners, mostly plasticrap that they couldn't pay me to take, but among them was a dusty Kirby...

So, I was a little restless and bored this afternoon, which is always dangerous. I ended up at this little antiques mall nearby, which I hadn't visited in six or eight months. Not much had changed, really except some of the booths were now decorated for Halloween instead of Easter. There's one...

So, I took a quick walk through Goodwill this afternoon. Hadn't been there in several weeks. I was briefly tempted by an Electrolux Renaissance canister with its hose and power nozzle, but no other accessories, priced at $10. I could have gotten it for $9 since it's seniors' 10% off day. It...

So, I've been trying to avoid thrift shops lately, so I won't buy any more junk, but like an alcoholic walking into a bar, I found myself in one yesterday and walked out with an Oreck Xl BB870AW handheld vacuum. Yeah, I know. I've been very good lately about NOT buying more vacuums, but this...