Anybody seen one of these before?

[vacu-finder]

two motor, two bagged sanitaire vacuum

Lol....................looks like a joke to me, besides who would buy such a creature...?

 

[twocvbloke]

"besides who would buy such a creature...?"

The person who has to clean an office this big perhaps?

 

[sanitairered]

broomvac- Thanks for the photos! I think everyone enjoyed them.

I don't think I'm going to get it, as much as I want to. It's just not a practical machine for me, and I wouldn't really have a good place to keep it. 13 amps is a lot of energy to use up for a vacuum cleaner too!

 

[broomvac]

You're welcome! Thats why I posted them!

I had a cool idea a while back when I first saw one of these Sanitaires. I thought about getting 2 Generation series Kirbys and removing their nozzles and making a bracket to bolt the nozzles together. Then just attach the two Kirbys of your choice to the double nozzle, and you have a very wide self-propelled double Kirby! If you didn't attach a mower-style handle, the machine could use a differential type steering, similar to that of a zero turn riding mower or a tank, just more primitive. In other words, put both vacs in drive and push both handles forward to go forward, pull the left handle back and push right forward for a left turn, etc. Pretty cool huh!

And that's not all, for once you no longer need a double wide Kirby, simply detach the two vacs from the double nozzle and give them each a standard nozzle! Easy as pie!

If I ever get 2 spare nozzles, I am totally building one.

 

[broomvac]

Oh, and for the cords, use something like this plus an extension cord.

 

[twocvbloke]

hehe, this dual-vac widetrack idea is spreading fast...

 

[broomvac]

It certainly is! But the idea is nothing new. I believe both the Sanitaire and Hoover vacs are from the 90's. (Correct me if necessary)

 

[kirbyvertibles]

well they go as far as the late 70's or early 80;s I think. The kent sould be about 1982?

 

[kirbyvertibles]

The Hoover is newer.

 

[broomvac]

@kirbyvertibles

Thanks! I figured the Hoover was fairly new considering it is black instead of the older red/orange.

Also, thanks for the info on the Kent. I didn't know it was that old.

PS For those who haven't noticed, the Kent is a re-badged Sanitaire. lol

 

[broomvac]

Aha!

And for those keeping score...I found another!

http://www.gregsalerts.com/detail/?carbondale.craigslist.org/bfs/2720580574.html

 

[rugsucker]

and another

I have one similar to the Kent labeled for Servicemaster use as the SM**(possibly 21) in place of which we do not speak(part warehouse-part Collyer brothers memorial).Mostly white with I think blue bags.Could be available if interested.

 

[anthony]

Hoover

I think Hoover did somthing like this back in the 1930s

 

[jmurray01]

Wow, that is quite a cleaner!

 

[tolivac]

That large office suite would be best vacuumed by a backpack vacuum-lots of tables,desks to go under and around.The widesweep vacs are perfect for large lobbies,wide hallways, and such where there is little furniture.

 

[tolivac]

The downtown convention hall would be another-there is a large carpeted main room in the building-before and after events-the widesweep vacs would be good there.

 

[broomvac]

How about a fleet of these for an indoor artificial football field? lol

 

[broomvac]

Oh, and one other thing I forgot to mention is that the machine in my profile pic is a super-rare DOUBLE BROOM VAC!



Just Kidding!