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All across the nation, in Vac Shops almost everywhere! It came from the bowels of the basement, deep in the parts room....... Its is..... (50's godzilla music).... Attack of the FrankenKirby monstrosity! I thought of this for entertainment. Do you have pictures to add of the species of...

Hi Everybody. Does anyone else have issues with clouding when machine buffing? I am so frustrated with my latest project. I have sanded it, wet sanded it, and gone all the way up to 7000 grit, ultra fine. After that I cut it with black emery on a sisal wheel. My cut turns out OK but when I...

Hi everyone. I have a question about buffing motors. I am redoing my recently acquired Kirby Classic Omega. I have a parts Kirby from 1975 and my main Omega that was rebuilt by Kirby in the past. The Omega I am redoing was rebult circa 1996 but somewhere along that time some idiot got water...

Hi Everyone. Here is an original Headlight Switch Tradition for sale. It looks to be in pretty good condition. it's not mine, I have no connection with it. I saw it and thought I'd pass it along. I sure wish I was closer, I'd get it if I were in driving distance...

Hi Does anyone have a Kirby Classic Omega Diamond/Armadillo bag for sale? I need one for my Omega I’m restoring. It HAS to be diamond / armadillo, like the bag pictured. Also interested in Omega attachments in Rosewood Thank you, Derek.

Hi. I just bought an Avalir for my birthday and I am in love with it. I noticed that it has a smoother transmission than my Diamond and G6 did. it sounds like it runs at a higher RPM rate than any of my prior G models (and Diamond on high speed) did. Anyone else notice this? Does Avalir run...

Hi. I was checking out the vacuum of the day and saw this convertible. It has the narrow bag. Out of curiosity: would that have been a cloth shake out bag? Compared to a Kirby, Royal, or even the cloth shake out bag on my (sadly sold) Hoover 300, the commercial Convertible bag pictured looks...

** In good-natured fun** Today on eBay, I found a Filter Queen "Emerald" which was basically an Optima with a Majestic motor on it. I wondered if the HMI boys said "whoops" after they built their Optima, realized that it was a Lewyt-esque flop, then decided to do what they could to salvage...

I have been trying to locate a black Filter Queen/Princess 10 foot, electric hose. So far nothing has come up. Did Filter Queen discontinue these too?

Hi. I am looking for the Clear/Glitter Crevice Tool for the Tri-Star/ Compact vacuum. If you have an extra one let me know. Thanks, Derek.

I noticed that sometime in the 60's Compact sold a pink Compact which was billed as "Compact Standard" and the aqua Compact Electra. Both had the odd, external PN hook up towards the rear of the body. Did they both use the ABC PN? Did Compact make a pink ABC? I have seen a couple examples of...

Hi. This morning I was using my 1948 Electrolux XXX vacuum cleaner. My grandmother and my great grandmother bought it new together -they made every other payment and one week it was at my grandparent's house the other week it was at my great grandmother's house- they would shuffle it back and...

Here is an interesting floor brush for a Lux 30. It doesn't have the Gleaner Strip, Gleaner adjustment lever, or any trim on the top intake. I have to admit: I think it is a pretty floor tool. I really like the lines of it. Think this is a vintage vac-store brand knockoff from back in the day...

Hello Vacuumlanders. Here are some albums of my current daily driver: my Rainbow E-2B. I got it for a pretty good deal. I bought it sight unseen - I played some hardball to get a good deal. However, as the saying goes... It needed some work. Lol. I used to be a vacuum cleaner repairman I did...

Hi everybody. I have a question about the Rainbow Blue Label series. Are the plastic housings on the Rainbow Blue Label machine black (like on the latest E-Series: E-4, 2011- present) or is it dark gray like the E-series 1998-2007ish? I have been wondering. I can't tell if it's black or gray...

Yesterday I was at Goodwill and found a Rainbow d3c that was in fairly rough shape. one of the latches was broken, a "knob" was snapped off of the tool holder and it had no wand or powernozzle. They wanted $ 30.00 for it. Out of curiosity I plugged it in and turned it on. I am surprised at how...

The above statement is a very old expression I remember a friend of my grandparents using way back when I was a kid. On that note, Who doesn't like the look of a woven hose? Bosch issued a woven hose on their line of "Move" canister vacuums in Europe. Those of us across the pond in the States...

Here is a strange bird I found this afternoon. I am not affiliated with the seller or the auction in any way, shape or form. Just a neat looking Kirby...

So. This morning I was taking out the trash, and next to the bin was a Simplicity Symmetry vacuum cleaner. I dropped off my trash and walked back to my house with the Simplicity. The only thing wrong with it was a clogged lower hose ( go figure). I thought that was a nice stroke of good luck. I...

Here is an oddity. Someone is selling an interesting filter queen on Ebay (not me). This one has an industrial, army like case, a fiber hose that looks more like an exhaust hose than a standard model 200 hose, a three wire grounded cord and some different fittings. I wonder what this was...