Wow Kyle.....
The hits just keep on coming from you don't they.
I agree with Jeff, if you truly paid a dollar for this, you've done gotten the "steal of the century"...
I've never seen, only heard about these "Don Clark" conversions, and find it interesting that they are literally a base model Eureka Rugulator upright, with a bellows, and handle conversion done up to meet with the standard A-W hose ferrule.
According to the recent article written by our own Andy Weter, that this wasn't the first one made either. The VERY first power nozzle for the Sanitizor series was built for Don by Hamilton Beach. I actually have a Western Auto catalog from fall and winter 1965, which clearly shows a Hamilton beach upright complete with bag, sold along side the current Eureka built "wizard" upright of the time.
And of course Andy was great enough to find a picture of this "conversion" of the H-B for that article, that shows the head being used with the Sanitizor S wand, that normally came as standard equipment. A bulky power cord ran the length of the hose and wand from that head nee' post D2 series Rexair-Rainbow's that had a continuous cord running from the head to the outlet on the machine, of course held by straps along the way.
I know that in Andy Weter's history of AirWay in the VDTA magazine he talked about how Eureka actually built the Air-Way Sanitizor for several years, and thus, comes as no surprise that they private labeled these heads for Mr. Clark. even tho they were doing it on the "down low" from the big wigs over at Air-Way.
What I'm comparatively confused about is that someone on the other thread about the later Royal built power heads, of which I have used one before stated that he visited "the Air-Way factory" sometime around 1970 for this conversion to be done...
Well, if Air-Way had Eureka building it's machines from 1957 as Andy stated in his article, they obviously built these heads, and the member stating that he toured the factory....I find it rather interesting that sometime between 1957, and 1970 Air-Way either moved shop, or they never moved at all....yet Eureka apparantly built these machines for a hot minute....
Andy...where are you????
Ahhhh...such is the confusing and interwoven tapestry of vacuo-drama history for us to continuously learn of.
BTW...Did you replace the brushroll tho or is that how it came to you. As you know it is more unique with it's original roller in it....
I have a question tho...why haven't I heard about this item yet...oh wait yeah...we haven't talked in like a bijillion years or more.
Please call me tomorrow so we can catch up...
And I want to talk about that Apex.....
Chad
