A day in Pittsburgh... came home with 2 gems!

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redgeminipa

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Mike and I headed over to Pittsburgh to visit some friends and pick up a Kirby Classic III I had lined up. What we didn't expect...

The Kirby is in great shape, and the attachments are PERFECT - NEW condition! -- $75!

The other unexpected: we picked up an Electrolux G in very nice shape - complete with original bill of sale from 1968! -- $50!

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Awesome finds! My brother has that exact kirby, but his has the bojack paper bag setup that uses eureka F&G bags. One of the great old kirbys, they never seem to wear out.
 
The way they are in the pictures is how we got them... I haven't touched either yet. We just got home with them about 2 hours ago. They're both very well kept.
 
You're very welcome. It's obvious someone took very good care of them both. Purchasers used to recognize that a good appliance was an investment, and needed to be cared for. Must be a new find sorta day, got my first ever Royal today. :)
 
Metal fans

Oh I miss those metal fans.

All I ever seem to do on modern Kirby's is replace the plastic fan , we do about 2 a week at least and we are even not a authorised Kirby centre
 
those plastic fans are awful aren't they? I had one absolutely explode on a Kirby Tradition while I was using it in blower mode. The crystolator (guard) was in place, so nothing could have hit the fan. Vac shop said that just happened sometimes with a plastic fan in an older kirby...
 
vintagekitchen, that's why when i tested fired a tradition that was going to be my personal one (not for sale) and the lexan fan exploded, it was going to be switched out with a metal fan from a parts donor omega thats too crapped up to sell. since i had aquired a better quality tradition for my personal collection, its getting the metal fan now. anything trad or older i have will have a metal fan if it doesn't already. lexan fans just fail too often. and heritage's will get the new kevlar fans.
 
Fan material

Lexan was used up to some point. I was talking to Bill (a007KirbyMan) the other day about fans. He said Kevlar was never used. The fans are now made of Amodel. It's supposed to be some new type of very strong plastic compound.

Hey Ben. Here's a pic of the serial number.

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new style fan

the kirby G5 was the first to use the new tan plastic fan, as far as I know. all of the G4 and older have a gray plastic fan. sofar every kirby I have took in for service needs a new fan on G4 and older models. if you look close at the gray fan you can see cracks oround the center, it time to replace it. the new style fans seem to hold up much better so far I have not had a bad one yet, just some beat to hell and back so I replaced it, but it still worked well just looked bad.


Chris
 
I got the cloth bag on the Classic III cleaned up, and it looks very good. I really want to tear the rest down so I can start cleaning, buffing and polishing, but I'm not real sure how some of the trim comes off. Looks like rubber tabs pushed through, but I'm afraid I'll break them trying to get them off. Same for the belt lifter. Any suggestions?
 

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