Any New News from Kirby?

[eurekaprince]

I have an unusual question for all the Kirby fans here....

Any reason why Kirby never thought to put a nice cord reel on their vacs? It seems that for such a high quality, heavy duty line of vacs, that would be an obvious feature that should have been included in the design years ago. Any thoughts?

 

[luxg]

The only thing I can think of is that it would add more weight to the machine.

 

[tolivac]

Cord reels have a tendency to break-and they can limit the lenght of the cord-please Kirby DON'T go to a cord reel-the handle hooks and commerical lenght cord is fine!On most of my cordreel machines in my collection--the cords are TOO short!Except the Meiles,Riccar canisters.

 

[luxlife]

I think the cord reel on my Miele Capricorn is waaay too short. My Bosch Premium has a 32 ft cord on the cord reel, but my other half took it to our townhouse in Ft. Worth and I rarely get to use it anymore.

 

[kirbysthebest]

Tolivac has it correct.
Kirby never used a cord real or winder because they break. Cord hooks are much more reliable over the long haul.