A Garage Full of Vacs, Part 2

[kirbyvertibles]

Toby, question about your gold rugmaster. I have the same Mark V but mine has a chrome rugmaster. Was there just a change in color of the rugmaster or does mine go to a different model?

 

[human]

Is that my old Eureka?!?

I normally wouldn't bother replying to a resurrected eight-year-old thread, but that orange Eureka in reply #7 looks absolutely freakin' IDENTICAL to the one I used to have that had been my grandmother's. My (now ex-) wife made me get rid of it after her daughter vacuumed up dry cat food with it and somehow managed to get pieces of it lodged in the motor, which produced a horrible racket. Since I couldn't fix it in a minute or less, out it went.

Seriously, I just can't help but wonder if that's my old machine because the chronology almost seems to fit as well. The poster, GE1969, stated he had picked it up at a thrift store some three or four years earlier, which would have been pretty close to when I would have taken mine—under duress, mind you—to the Goodwill store in Mount. Airy, N.C. in the summer of 2003. While I can't prove it's the same machine and wouldn't ever dream of asking for it back even if I could prove it, I'd like to think that it is and thus take some small comfort in the idea, no matter how far-fetched and fanciful, that it has found a good home with someone who truly appreciates it.

 

[ge1969]

Hey Phillip! I really don't know. I've seen both with the same vac. Human, I picked the Eureka up at a thrift store here in Georgia and no funny noises, so it's probably not the same. Toby G.

 

[delaneymeegan]

 


 


I currently have the orange Eureka Prince with pn.   It has the original hose, unlike the one in this post.  Mine needs the inside plate primed and painted.   It still has the original price tag from a department store.  I got it from a seller in Rockford, IL.


 


It was $119.  The tag is staying on.


 


AND


a few months back I saw another of the same model on Ebay, from a seller in Wisconsin.

 

[vacerator]

Delaney, I like

the Eureka original powerteam hose hand grip. Unfortunately, both of mine are not.
Had I had them much sooner than later, I'd have used silicone caulk on the tiny cracks before they got to be large ones.
Why Eureka didn't make more of the original style, or changed it is questionable. It seems like an extra few inches of vinyl cladding over the metal handle elbow couldn't have cost that much.
They look more stylish, and made it easier to manuver the power nozzle.