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Well, it has been a while since I've posted a "new vacuum" thread, because it has been a long time since I've bought a new vacuum!!  Or should I say, a new vacuum that isn't a Dyson, as I have been picking a fair few of them up for the purpose of cleaning up and selling on for a profit.  Don't...

I know, I always said that I'd never buy a Kirby, then I bought the Legend II...  And now, I have two!   Today I saw a Heritage on Gumtree and at the price, I couldn't let it go.  So, I went on a small road-trip to collect it and here it is, my second Kirby!   I don't know if the serial...

Tonight I took a detour home from work to pick up another vacuum cleaner.  The idea with this one is to clean it up and sell on for a profit, but I actually think I may (slightly) like the thing...    It is filthy, but very quiet and the brushroll sticks to the carpet almost as good as an...

Picked this up tonight for £10. It is the same as my bagged Boss only the handle-release catch is still intact! I haven't tested it yet, but am told it was in perfect working order. As expected it is dirty, and I will strip it down and restore tomorrow, but for tonight thought I'd start a...

Well, what can I say? The last week really has been a vacuum filled one, and the funny thing is I wasn't even actively looking for any - but rather just happened to see the adverts on Gumtree whilst browsing other things. This is a red Sebo X1.1 which was for sale at £10. Of course at that...

Well, last week I saw a rather tempting advert online for an Oreck upright at £15. I got the seller down to £10 ($15) and picked it up. Not a bad cleaner, I've used it a few times now on medium and shag pile and it works well on both, although the handle becomes stiff after a while (not sure...

Well, I never thought I'd say that! But, it was too good an opportunity to miss. I was browsing Gumtree last Tuesday and came across a Kirby Legend 2 with tools for sale for £40. I contacted the seller and got him down to £35, arranging to collect it the following day, which I did. The...

A couple of weeks ago I was browsing eBay and saw a Hoover Senior 652A looking in a very sorry state for £12 ($18US/$25CAD) which apparently had a running motor but needed a complete restoration.  Having always wanted a 652A (granted, in better condition!) I decided to save this poor Senior as...

When I picked up the Electrolux The Boss it was in full working order, however recently I noticed it would not hold in the upright position securely so decided to investigate further.    Not surprisingly, the below pictures show what I found.   Question is, I don't have the piece that...

Well guys, it has been a while since my collection gained a new member, but yesterday - it did! I came across the below linked item and got in touch with the advertiser within an hour of it going live - offering to collect it that afternoon. Thankfully he responded advising that would be fine...

Having bought the machine with the intention to repair a few years ago, I've decided just to strip it down and get rid of it in parts in order to focus more on my cleaners that are already working.   Anyway, the long and the short of it is that it is intact structurally (bar the bumper and...

This is the reason I bang on about my Ranger all the time!  My 612 is actually even better than this but as I had the Ranger out at the time I thought I'd just film it. 

Well I was certainly not expecting this as a leaving present from my work colleagues!  Yes, it is an Electrolux X1!!   And that is all I know about it admittedly, as Electrolux is not my "main" brand and even if it were a HOOVER, I would still be pretty clueless considering it seems to be...

I did something I have not done in a while and checked Hoover's website, to find that they are now selling the Purepower (as well as a similar if not identical model called the Enigma) with a 700W motor.   That of course is a big difference from the 2100W motor in the "old" Purepower before...

Well I've gone and done it again! Despite my hatered of the D-word today I picked up my third Dyson. To recap, the previous two were a DC04 in 2013 I got for free and sold for £60, and the other one was a DC07 I got this year again free and sold for £50. This one is different as I actually...

Last weekend I picked up a Dyson DC07 which was going free about 30 miles from me, and as we wanted to go out for a drive anyway, I decided that we'd swing by and pick it up.   Apparently it worked fine (or, as fine as a Dyson can work - but do I judge?) in normal use but the hose had no...

Good evening VLers!    This morning my latest acquisition arrived, and it is a vacuum I have been wishing to purchase for over a year.  Yes, it is a Junior 119!   I literally have done nothing to it other than to take it out of the box, put it together and remove the old belt which was...

One thing that always bugs me with my Senior is having to throw out a perfectly good belt just because it has stretched and has started to slip, so I got wondering this morning if a stretched V5 belt would work as a V14 belt? Of course the V14 belts are slightly larger than the V5s and from the...

Hello VLers, it is I the venerable Jamie back again after a break which I shall document in due course. I still have no home interet so don't expect daily contributions but I will drop in every now and then. Anyhoo, the purpose of this thread is to inform you that I was incredibly lucky and...

I picked this beauty up last year for the sum of £1.50 ($2.36) at a recyling store and after some cleaning it came up looking very nice indeed. I took everything apart that could be (I.E. not much) and cleaned it up thoroughly and thankfully the brush roll still had plenty life left in it (I...