aeoliandave
Well-known member
Ok, so it's really a Candy Apple Red Metalflake Bissel Lift-off upright with detachable 'papoose' bagless cylinder. This design has always intriqued me when it came out
Recalling the thread 7276 about Rob Mitchell's Electric Green Germ Guardian and noting the similarities, I decided to spend an evening in an attempt to take two trashed free Bissell Lift-Offs and come out at the end with one.
To begin with, both had their cords cut off so I snatched the long supple black cord from a junker Hoover Sprint stickvac. When I remove cords I disassemble the vac to get the full cord & strain relief.
One Bissel, in otherwise near perfect cosmetic exterior shape, had no tools or hose, missing the 3 filter assemblies and pads, a cracked bin, a broken cord hook and the pwernozzle base had been sitting in water, rusting out all the screws & metal bits and seizing the motor. The two pin socket on the PN base that the cylinder drops on to was fried - it looked like an electrical short had melted it. The brushroll itself was well won down, wrapped in wet fusty pet hair and synthetic carpet warp & weft (&woof) fibers. It was obviously last run without the bin's cylindrical filter fitting in place but at least the motor pre-filter was still there, tho covered in a felt matt of pet fur.
The other Bissell had the 3 filters, hose, tools, wand and a clean running powernozzle but the exterior paint was horribly scratched and gouged all over from being rammed into and under things. However, the unscathed black back half of the cylinder had both cord hooks.
http://www.vacuumland.org/TD/THREADS/MODERN/7276.htm?11
Recalling the thread 7276 about Rob Mitchell's Electric Green Germ Guardian and noting the similarities, I decided to spend an evening in an attempt to take two trashed free Bissell Lift-Offs and come out at the end with one.
To begin with, both had their cords cut off so I snatched the long supple black cord from a junker Hoover Sprint stickvac. When I remove cords I disassemble the vac to get the full cord & strain relief.
One Bissel, in otherwise near perfect cosmetic exterior shape, had no tools or hose, missing the 3 filter assemblies and pads, a cracked bin, a broken cord hook and the pwernozzle base had been sitting in water, rusting out all the screws & metal bits and seizing the motor. The two pin socket on the PN base that the cylinder drops on to was fried - it looked like an electrical short had melted it. The brushroll itself was well won down, wrapped in wet fusty pet hair and synthetic carpet warp & weft (&woof) fibers. It was obviously last run without the bin's cylindrical filter fitting in place but at least the motor pre-filter was still there, tho covered in a felt matt of pet fur.
The other Bissell had the 3 filters, hose, tools, wand and a clean running powernozzle but the exterior paint was horribly scratched and gouged all over from being rammed into and under things. However, the unscathed black back half of the cylinder had both cord hooks.
http://www.vacuumland.org/TD/THREADS/MODERN/7276.htm?11
It's ideal for swooping up crumbs off the kitchen floor - you know how toast sheds on it's way to the plate or when you spill the Rice Krispies.
