kirbyuser
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collection of my vacuums.so many vacuums, so little time.
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luxy1205
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vacuser
Very nice collection!!! I'm totally jealous of your Kirbys!!!
-Michelle
Very nice collection!!! I'm totally jealous of your Kirbys!!!
-Michelle
fantomfan
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Lovely Kirbys!
I have many kirbys as well! They're great!
- 512 (Aunt's Parent's)
- 515 (Grandma's freind)
- Sanitronic VII (goodwill)
- Classic (craigslist)
- Heritage II Turbo (flea market)
- Vacuette ( veteran fund sale)
- G4 (craigslist)
I have many kirbys as well! They're great!
- 512 (Aunt's Parent's)
- 515 (Grandma's freind)
- Sanitronic VII (goodwill)
- Classic (craigslist)
- Heritage II Turbo (flea market)
- Vacuette ( veteran fund sale)
- G4 (craigslist)
kirbyuser
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to:MICHELLE
o.k. michelle, why are you jealous? do you not have enough kirbys? that chain saw your wielding there might have me scarred ! you don't cut up your old vacuums with that do you ? LOL here's a pic. of my 511 i got recently. you might be seeing red. LOL again !! i have to put some shine on this one.
o.k. michelle, why are you jealous? do you not have enough kirbys? that chain saw your wielding there might have me scarred ! you don't cut up your old vacuums with that do you ? LOL here's a pic. of my 511 i got recently. you might be seeing red. LOL again !! i have to put some shine on this one.
luxy1205
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vacuser
Ha Ha!!! I've just come to really enjoy Kirbys and am scared because I could collect them like I collect chainsaws! I have 117 saws as of right now, but that literally changes almost daily! Nope, saws and vacuums get along nicely. Ha Ha! I have all of my vacuums in our bedroom, so that would be 9, and I have 2 chainsaws the we restored in there too! I've got 10 stand mixers, 9 Sunbeam Mixmasters, 1 Dormeyer, and 10 electric hand mixers! A boat load of clock radios, I know off the top of my head that I have 4 in our bedroom that I switch off between to wake me up in the morning! Oh yeah, I also collect circular saws!!! I have 4 so far. One is from 1948 I think, it's a Mall circular saw!!! The thing ways more than a Kirby! Ha Ha! I love your 511!!! I've got to take both of mine apart and get them both running good! I can't wait to use a Kirby for the first time! I use my 1205 Electrolux everyday named "Luxy", but she's getting tired and has some issues that need to be addressed, so until I get to fixing her, I want to use one of the Kirbys. In your opinion, which of mine would work better, the Heritage II or DS50? I have 2 Parakeets and a Chihuahua, so vacuuming is really required at my house! I was just curious because I don't know which one to get going first? Thanks again! Here's a few pics of my madness! Ha Ha! -Michelle
Ha Ha!!! I've just come to really enjoy Kirbys and am scared because I could collect them like I collect chainsaws! I have 117 saws as of right now, but that literally changes almost daily! Nope, saws and vacuums get along nicely. Ha Ha! I have all of my vacuums in our bedroom, so that would be 9, and I have 2 chainsaws the we restored in there too! I've got 10 stand mixers, 9 Sunbeam Mixmasters, 1 Dormeyer, and 10 electric hand mixers! A boat load of clock radios, I know off the top of my head that I have 4 in our bedroom that I switch off between to wake me up in the morning! Oh yeah, I also collect circular saws!!! I have 4 so far. One is from 1948 I think, it's a Mall circular saw!!! The thing ways more than a Kirby! Ha Ha! I love your 511!!! I've got to take both of mine apart and get them both running good! I can't wait to use a Kirby for the first time! I use my 1205 Electrolux everyday named "Luxy", but she's getting tired and has some issues that need to be addressed, so until I get to fixing her, I want to use one of the Kirbys. In your opinion, which of mine would work better, the Heritage II or DS50? I have 2 Parakeets and a Chihuahua, so vacuuming is really required at my house! I was just curious because I don't know which one to get going first? Thanks again! Here's a few pics of my madness! Ha Ha!
-Michelle
luxy1205
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Kirby & Walton
Here's a pic of how well my Kirby and Walton the 1979 Homelite XL 12 get along!!! Ha Ha! Btw, I restored Walton, my first chainsaw resto I ever did a few years back!
Here's a pic of how well my Kirby and Walton the 1979 Homelite XL 12 get along!!! Ha Ha! Btw, I restored Walton, my first chainsaw resto I ever did a few years back!
luxy1205
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Our Livingroom Madness!
Here's a pic of our living room. Notice all of the saws, clocks, and radios??? I have way more chainsaws and clock radios in other parts of the house as well!!!
Here's a pic of our living room. Notice all of the saws, clocks, and radios??? I have way more chainsaws and clock radios in other parts of the house as well!!!
luxy1205
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Some of my Stand Mixers
Here's a pic of only some of my stand mixers! I can't even get them all in the same pic!!! I'm restoring my 1937 Sunbeam Mixmaster model 3b named "Bernadine", right now. My husband restored my very first stand mixer, a 1950 Sunbeam Mixmaster model 10b named "Geraldine". He painted her pink for me!
Here's a pic of only some of my stand mixers! I can't even get them all in the same pic!!! I'm restoring my 1937 Sunbeam Mixmaster model 3b named "Bernadine", right now. My husband restored my very first stand mixer, a 1950 Sunbeam Mixmaster model 10b named "Geraldine". He painted her pink for me!
luxy1205
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Electric Hand Mixers
Here's all of my hand mixers minus one. A while back a gave a hand mixer I had to my mom to have and she passed away last September so my aunt brought it back to her house for me. I'm just waiting to get it back.
Here's all of my hand mixers minus one. A while back a gave a hand mixer I had to my mom to have and she passed away last September so my aunt brought it back to her house for me. I'm just waiting to get it back.
vacuser
I noticed you have two Royal metal uprights, both of them of the commercial type.
On the one that says "Mercury" on its shake-out bag I believe that to be a model 606 pre-1975.
But I am curious as to the one that has the hose adapter in the plate opening... what is the model number for that, please?
Thank you,
Ben (KirbyClassicIII)
I noticed you have two Royal metal uprights, both of them of the commercial type.
On the one that says "Mercury" on its shake-out bag I believe that to be a model 606 pre-1975.
But I am curious as to the one that has the hose adapter in the plate opening... what is the model number for that, please?
Thank you,
Ben (KirbyClassicIII)
kirbyuser
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to: MICHELLE
well michelle i'm totally impressed by all the items that you like to collect but you might be leaning to the hoarder side. LOL you can seek help before it's too late.do you sell any or just collect? now as far as which kirby to use, if you're a dust fanatic the heritage with the micron disposable bags are the way to go, but as for me i love the older machines & some dust has not taken me out yet.i've been around kirbys my whole life.sorry about your moms passing, mine passed 9 days before christmas in 2012. keep me up to date on your kirby adventure if you decide to take that on.does your husband collect stuff as well?
well michelle i'm totally impressed by all the items that you like to collect but you might be leaning to the hoarder side. LOL you can seek help before it's too late.do you sell any or just collect? now as far as which kirby to use, if you're a dust fanatic the heritage with the micron disposable bags are the way to go, but as for me i love the older machines & some dust has not taken me out yet.i've been around kirbys my whole life.sorry about your moms passing, mine passed 9 days before christmas in 2012. keep me up to date on your kirby adventure if you decide to take that on.does your husband collect stuff as well?
super-sweeper
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clock radios!
Set them ALL to go off at 6:30 sharp, it'll wake both you and the neighbors!
Set them ALL to go off at 6:30 sharp, it'll wake both you and the neighbors!
SUPER COOL!!!Besides vacuums-another power tool collector.I have a small collection of tools-including circular saws.Have a Mall saw in a red metal carrying case with extra blades-Mall saws had a weird profile arbor-you could only use their blades on their machines.Have a beast of a Skillsaw-10" worm drive-15A motor!this critter cuts thru 4X4's like a hot knife thru butter!Was collecting tools besides vacuums-heavy on the Kirbys-while we had a ReTool store here.Smallest saws I have are 4" Craftsman and Rockwell.These cut plywood and shelving stock so well-and lightweight.Your "Walton" the Homelite chainsaw looks so much like one my Dad borrowed from a freind almost 40 yrs ago for firewood cutting sessions in the Black Hills-Of course the fun part was cutting on the saw-worst was lugging the wood to the truck.Beautiful restore job on Walton!!I don't have many chainsaws-just two electric ones.Remington and Homelite.Have several "Sawzalls" though.Used to work in a tool repair shop.Got some that way.Seems like with vacuums-the collecting branches out into tools,radios,cameras,kitchen equipment,lighting equipment, and so on.
gus
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Michelle, IMHO you do right, if that's what you make you happy, go on. I don't think you need help at all!. Just enjoy you life. Personally I don't like to be so overstuffed, BUT this is questionable. Just be yourself, be careful with chainsaws, like electric knives they can be dangerous. Hugs Gus
luxy1205
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vacuser
I'm afraid I might become a hoarder!!! My problem is that I want to have all of these vintage things for myself. I see too many people that don't know any better, just throw old things away because they smell funny or it doesn't work anymore, it's old and doesn't work right! This is why I buy, take, and garbage pick!!! I want the old stuff that smells funny and doesn't work right! Ha Ha! I want to fix everything and then marvel in it's glory-ness!!! Most of the clocks/radios on that black shelf in the photo don't work or work correctly yet. To me, even though it doesn't work, I still love to look at it until I get around to fixing it! I see beauty in broken stuff and can see past it to what it can be! I just collect. For me, the stuff I have, I love, and couldn't see selling it. I do fix other peoples' stuff time to time. I've fixed some saws for people in the past and just got done rebuilding a 60's GE electric hand mixer I bought for my cousin's bridal shower. I don't mind dust, my house is covered in it, no matter how hard I try to clean it! I'm not a typical vacuum collector. I like my house clean, but I'm not going to devote my life to cleaning it. I like vacuums for the same reason I like all of my other stuff, because it's gotta motor that can be rebuilt and made to run right and if for nothing else, to just look at it! My DS50 it is! Ha Ha! I'm more partial to the oldies! I'm actually thinking about changing my Heritage II over to a shaker. I like easy. I don't like buying bags for vacuums! Thank you for the kind sentiment! I'm sorry to hear about your mom! It's rough! In my vacuum pic, you can see a 1205 in the middle of the other Electroluxs, that was my mom's, his motor and goodies are in those plastic bags on top of him. I need to sandblast him and paint him up! I've just got way too many hobbies going at one time! As of right now, I have to finish my mom's lux, fix my "Luxy", fix my Kirbys, paint a chainsaw that's waiting in the paint booth, and paint my 1937 Sunbeam that's waiting in there too! Plus, I garbage picked a Snapper push mower from the 60's or 70's last fall and need to rebuild that as well! Those are on the list first, I have way more to add to it! My husband collects chainsaws too. I have way more than he does! He loves Chevy Chevettes! We both have one and are looking to buy another one! We will hopefully be restoring our cars this summer. I forgot, I have a 1974 Triumph motorcycle that I'm restoring in our basement too! Like I said too many hobbies!!! I will keep ya updated on the Kirbys! -Michelle
I'm afraid I might become a hoarder!!! My problem is that I want to have all of these vintage things for myself. I see too many people that don't know any better, just throw old things away because they smell funny or it doesn't work anymore, it's old and doesn't work right! This is why I buy, take, and garbage pick!!! I want the old stuff that smells funny and doesn't work right! Ha Ha! I want to fix everything and then marvel in it's glory-ness!!! Most of the clocks/radios on that black shelf in the photo don't work or work correctly yet. To me, even though it doesn't work, I still love to look at it until I get around to fixing it! I see beauty in broken stuff and can see past it to what it can be! I just collect. For me, the stuff I have, I love, and couldn't see selling it. I do fix other peoples' stuff time to time. I've fixed some saws for people in the past and just got done rebuilding a 60's GE electric hand mixer I bought for my cousin's bridal shower. I don't mind dust, my house is covered in it, no matter how hard I try to clean it! I'm not a typical vacuum collector. I like my house clean, but I'm not going to devote my life to cleaning it. I like vacuums for the same reason I like all of my other stuff, because it's gotta motor that can be rebuilt and made to run right and if for nothing else, to just look at it! My DS50 it is! Ha Ha! I'm more partial to the oldies! I'm actually thinking about changing my Heritage II over to a shaker. I like easy. I don't like buying bags for vacuums! Thank you for the kind sentiment! I'm sorry to hear about your mom! It's rough! In my vacuum pic, you can see a 1205 in the middle of the other Electroluxs, that was my mom's, his motor and goodies are in those plastic bags on top of him. I need to sandblast him and paint him up! I've just got way too many hobbies going at one time! As of right now, I have to finish my mom's lux, fix my "Luxy", fix my Kirbys, paint a chainsaw that's waiting in the paint booth, and paint my 1937 Sunbeam that's waiting in there too! Plus, I garbage picked a Snapper push mower from the 60's or 70's last fall and need to rebuild that as well! Those are on the list first, I have way more to add to it! My husband collects chainsaws too. I have way more than he does! He loves Chevy Chevettes! We both have one and are looking to buy another one! We will hopefully be restoring our cars this summer. I forgot, I have a 1974 Triumph motorcycle that I'm restoring in our basement too! Like I said too many hobbies!!! I will keep ya updated on the Kirbys!
-Michelle
luxy1205
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super-sweeper
Ha! I've thought about setting all of the clocks at the same time! I actually would love to do that with our chainsaws! Have 117 running motors at the same time! That's ridiculous and unnecessary, but fun trumps! Ha Ha!
Ha! I've thought about setting all of the clocks at the same time! I actually would love to do that with our chainsaws! Have 117 running motors at the same time! That's ridiculous and unnecessary, but fun trumps! Ha Ha!
luxy1205
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tolivac
That's funny that you should mention your Mall's metal case! My Mall came with one too and the instruction booklet! I only have 4 circular saws so far. I get mine at garage sales. I think the most I paid for one was $10.00! That's so cool that your dad used to have an XL 12!!! We have 4 of them. I use one named "Zippy" to cut with! They are fun little buggers! That's so cool that you used to work at a repair shop! That's a dream to me! I would love to do that! My husband doesn't care for electric saws, but I like them! I've gotten 2 for free from friends and got 2 for my birthday from my husband. They have their place. I'm a girl so, after cutting with big heavy metal saws, it wears ya out! The electrics are fun for when ya want a break from gas powered, vibrating monsters! Ha Ha! I love Homelite 150's!!! To me, they are the best saw! Loud as heck! I actually restored one for our next door neighbors, we are good friends with them. Also, I'm restoring a 150 right now. I tore it all apart and sandblasted it, just needs to be painted. Let's see, I have 2 150's for work only, and 6 to look at! Ha Ha! When I restored the 150 for our neighbors, I'm on a chainsaw forum and posted pics of it, a guy wrote to me and sent me his 150 for free!!! He loved how the one turned out and he wanted me to have it! He sits nicely in our living room now! The pic is of the 150 I restored for our neighbors. I named her "Lolly", a play on their last name, just to make it more personal. Also, the graphic on her bar is not original. I designed that myself and my husband painted it. I did rebuild, sand, and paint the saw myself. The Homelite on the air filter cover and clutch cover were hand painted be me too. The front hand grip had a black plastic like coating that I tediously hand stripped and hand polished! She was a labor of love!!! -Michelle
That's funny that you should mention your Mall's metal case! My Mall came with one too and the instruction booklet! I only have 4 circular saws so far. I get mine at garage sales. I think the most I paid for one was $10.00! That's so cool that your dad used to have an XL 12!!! We have 4 of them. I use one named "Zippy" to cut with! They are fun little buggers! That's so cool that you used to work at a repair shop! That's a dream to me! I would love to do that! My husband doesn't care for electric saws, but I like them! I've gotten 2 for free from friends and got 2 for my birthday from my husband. They have their place. I'm a girl so, after cutting with big heavy metal saws, it wears ya out! The electrics are fun for when ya want a break from gas powered, vibrating monsters! Ha Ha! I love Homelite 150's!!! To me, they are the best saw! Loud as heck! I actually restored one for our next door neighbors, we are good friends with them. Also, I'm restoring a 150 right now. I tore it all apart and sandblasted it, just needs to be painted. Let's see, I have 2 150's for work only, and 6 to look at! Ha Ha! When I restored the 150 for our neighbors, I'm on a chainsaw forum and posted pics of it, a guy wrote to me and sent me his 150 for free!!! He loved how the one turned out and he wanted me to have it! He sits nicely in our living room now! The pic is of the 150 I restored for our neighbors. I named her "Lolly", a play on their last name, just to make it more personal. Also, the graphic on her bar is not original. I designed that myself and my husband painted it. I did rebuild, sand, and paint the saw myself. The Homelite on the air filter cover and clutch cover were hand painted be me too. The front hand grip had a black plastic like coating that I tediously hand stripped and hand polished! She was a labor of love!!!
-Michelle
luxy1205
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tolivac
Here's another pic of "Lolly".
Here's another pic of "Lolly".
luxy1205
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tolivac
This is what "Lolly" started out looking like. This saw is my dear "Eggbert". The "Lolly" pics got lost on our old computer when it crashed! My husband hasn't messed with that computer yet, so all I have to compare her to is my "Eggbert". Which she looked just like him, actually worst! She had some company logo gouged into her body everywhere! Thanks to good old fashioned hand sanding! Ha Ha!
This is what "Lolly" started out looking like. This saw is my dear "Eggbert". The "Lolly" pics got lost on our old computer when it crashed! My husband hasn't messed with that computer yet, so all I have to compare her to is my "Eggbert". Which she looked just like him, actually worst! She had some company logo gouged into her body everywhere! Thanks to good old fashioned hand sanding! Ha Ha!
Luxy1205--Your "Lolly" is one beautiful peice of machinery!!!Would hate to use her and put a scratch or dent on her!!!Now "Eggbert" is all business-use him if you put another scratch or dent in him no one would notice.He's kinda like the Crown D150 amp in a "roadies" feild case that gets more scratches and dents in the front panel after each show the amp is used in.My Dad didn't actually own the X-12he borrowed it from a freind.Later he bought a Stihl saw-can't remember the model-he had it for years and years-it cut MANY truckloads of Hills firewood before it "died"Of all things he bought a Poulin to replace it-as a former tool tech advised him to replace the Stihl with another one or have it rebuilt.Don't know what became of the Poulin after Dad gave up his tools to my brother-guess he has it.Remember that dreaded brand at the tool shop.Got to the point we didn't fix those-sold the customer a new machine.Chainsaws weren't that shops main business-was other tools-like drills,recip saws,electric pavement breakers,wallbreakers(Those were so fun to fix--and try out!!)Coredrills-another fun one to try out-and last but not least masonry saws-another fun one to fix.And of course LOTS of air compressors.And the air tools used with them-nailguns.Also a few powder actuated nailguns-again fun to test out!!Most just needed cleaning like a regular gun.With the air powered nailers-you put a service "kit" in them-piston,nail drive shaft,and seals.And rotary hammers for concrete work.The job was a temp one-didn't pay much but was FUN!!!You would get to fix and try various tools.Will say--You do FANTASTIC work on your tools in restoring-repairing them-you could get paid top dollar at a tool shop as a tech!For me its now giant shortwave broadcast transmitters.Somehow--the tools were more fun to fix.Just doesn't pay as much.We used to have a guy who worked here-his hobby was fixing chainsaws.He has retired.He doesn't fix saws anymore-does other work instead-he said he got tired of working on them.
luxy1205
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tolivac
Thanks for the compliments!!! "Lolly" was a gift for them. They didn't even know about it! She sits nicely on a shelf in their den! My "Eggbert" will never be used. He's the one that started my fascination with 150's! He's also an inside joke with people we know. He will be painted with mirage paint, it'll be a flip between red and blue. He will forever be in our house! Ha Ha! That's so cool that you got to work on all of that stuff!!! That's what I'm doing now! My husband restores antique cars for a living so he uses the heck outta his tools! He'll bring home grinders, buffers, drills, sanders, you name it, it's been rebuilt. I would love to fix the concrete saws!!! I need to add one of those into my collection! Once I have some time, I will rebuild my 1948 Mall circular saw and use it! That's it too, most of anything just needs to be cleaned! Most electric stuff needs to be cleaned, oiled, and the commutator needs to be shined back up where the brushes hit it! On the chainsaws though, most of them need a new carb kit because their gaskets are hard like a potato chip! Ha Ha! Gotta love gasoline that turns into varnish goo! Ha Ha! You just spoke my language with the "shortwave broadcast transmitters"!!! I love rebuilding my clock radios!!! I'm overly fascinated by tube technology! I'm really focusing on tubes, but I am learning solid state/transistors too! For fun, I take apart old computer and tvs for the circuit boards. I de-solder them for the resistors, transistors, diodes, capacitors, and etc. Mainly for the capacitors since back in the day the caps in the old radios were made with horse hair, wax, and snot! Ha Ha! Gee, can't imagine why those didn't last long! Ha Ha! Also, from what I've noticed too, the rectifier tubes seem to go bad on almost all of the radios I fix. That would be a 35W4 tube. What all do you do with your shortwaves??? I enjoy working on saws mainly for us alone. We've done some in the past for people, but it doesn't pay. You're basically just doing it for fun and that's rewarding, but not when it's for customers. Most people don't want to buy a restored saw because you don't want to cut with it! I see too many people restoring very nice saws, wanting over $500 for them and they never get it! It's worth it, because I know how much labor, love, and money goes into doing that. Now, there are some exceptions with saws. I know there are a few out there that are very rare and if they are restored people would buy them. -Michelle
Thanks for the compliments!!! "Lolly" was a gift for them. They didn't even know about it! She sits nicely on a shelf in their den! My "Eggbert" will never be used. He's the one that started my fascination with 150's! He's also an inside joke with people we know. He will be painted with mirage paint, it'll be a flip between red and blue. He will forever be in our house! Ha Ha! That's so cool that you got to work on all of that stuff!!! That's what I'm doing now! My husband restores antique cars for a living so he uses the heck outta his tools! He'll bring home grinders, buffers, drills, sanders, you name it, it's been rebuilt. I would love to fix the concrete saws!!! I need to add one of those into my collection! Once I have some time, I will rebuild my 1948 Mall circular saw and use it! That's it too, most of anything just needs to be cleaned! Most electric stuff needs to be cleaned, oiled, and the commutator needs to be shined back up where the brushes hit it! On the chainsaws though, most of them need a new carb kit because their gaskets are hard like a potato chip! Ha Ha! Gotta love gasoline that turns into varnish goo! Ha Ha! You just spoke my language with the "shortwave broadcast transmitters"!!! I love rebuilding my clock radios!!! I'm overly fascinated by tube technology! I'm really focusing on tubes, but I am learning solid state/transistors too! For fun, I take apart old computer and tvs for the circuit boards. I de-solder them for the resistors, transistors, diodes, capacitors, and etc. Mainly for the capacitors since back in the day the caps in the old radios were made with horse hair, wax, and snot! Ha Ha! Gee, can't imagine why those didn't last long! Ha Ha! Also, from what I've noticed too, the rectifier tubes seem to go bad on almost all of the radios I fix. That would be a 35W4 tube. What all do you do with your shortwaves??? I enjoy working on saws mainly for us alone. We've done some in the past for people, but it doesn't pay. You're basically just doing it for fun and that's rewarding, but not when it's for customers. Most people don't want to buy a restored saw because you don't want to cut with it! I see too many people restoring very nice saws, wanting over $500 for them and they never get it! It's worth it, because I know how much labor, love, and money goes into doing that. Now, there are some exceptions with saws. I know there are a few out there that are very rare and if they are restored people would buy them.
-Michelle
Love your collection !
Hi there ! I had already seen some nice images of your loving hand-mixers and now i am happy to "meet" them again ! I love your way of collecting, which is quite similar to mine, I must say : I have a large amount of vintage cleaners and floor polishers ( only the ones that are fascinating to me for some reason), but also stand-mixers and kitchen electrics from the 1950's, fans, telephones, etc I collect all the things i like and could divide them into 5 or 6 main categories which give a sense to any addition ( vintage electric kitchenalia, fans, telephones, vacuums, portable turntables, 1980's toys from my generation ). The limit to be a hoarder is a serious risk for me today ( all the stuff is in my apartment ! )even if i always keep everything as clean as possible and plan to storage most of the stuff in a more suitable place as soon as some extra money will be available...
I was impressed and sorry for your recent loss...reminds me that I started collecting "funny smelling" old electric machines when my granny Bruna passed away in 1986 - I was eleven at the time - and I was given the few poor machines she used for cooking ( and often played with when I was I child ) : an old mixer, an electric coffee grinder by moulinex, a small fan and a LESA electric vacuum-brush. I still have those machines and have beautiful childhood memories with them and all this has helped to keep the memory of my grandparents freshly alive, even after so many years !
Cheers from italy and congratulation for your collections !
Hi there ! I had already seen some nice images of your loving hand-mixers and now i am happy to "meet" them again ! I love your way of collecting, which is quite similar to mine, I must say : I have a large amount of vintage cleaners and floor polishers ( only the ones that are fascinating to me for some reason), but also stand-mixers and kitchen electrics from the 1950's, fans, telephones, etc I collect all the things i like and could divide them into 5 or 6 main categories which give a sense to any addition ( vintage electric kitchenalia, fans, telephones, vacuums, portable turntables, 1980's toys from my generation ). The limit to be a hoarder is a serious risk for me today ( all the stuff is in my apartment ! )even if i always keep everything as clean as possible and plan to storage most of the stuff in a more suitable place as soon as some extra money will be available...
I was impressed and sorry for your recent loss...reminds me that I started collecting "funny smelling" old electric machines when my granny Bruna passed away in 1986 - I was eleven at the time - and I was given the few poor machines she used for cooking ( and often played with when I was I child ) : an old mixer, an electric coffee grinder by moulinex, a small fan and a LESA electric vacuum-brush. I still have those machines and have beautiful childhood memories with them and all this has helped to keep the memory of my grandparents freshly alive, even after so many years !
Cheers from italy and congratulation for your collections !
Luxy1205:
I work on the SW transmitters for a living-hope it continues.The youngest of the rigs here are 30yrs old-500Kw one is from Germany-AEG S4005,the other from Switzerland-BK55.500Kw it has an early first generation solid state modulator-its holding up well since some guys who know this rig better than me rebuilt them.There are 3 General Electric 250Kw SW transmitters here-going on 50 yrs old.They were built during the Cold War era as this site was-commissioned in 1963 By then Pres Kennedy.Then there are 3 Continental Electronics 420A tranmsitters that are 65 yrs old-they have been repainted-they are the same colors as your "Lolly" saw.Hate to use them.Tube technology abounds here-and some tubes cost over $150,000 so we handle them carefully.Come in Washer sized crates shipped from France,Germany,or Switzerland.We so wish for new transmitters-but won't happen.New rigs are now 1.5 Mil each!!!
In my goings with tools,radios and such you have two classes of people that deal with them--"Users"(Eggbert would be a Users machine)"Lolly" would be a "Collectors"
Machine-one that won't get used.Users USE their things-Collectors as a rule-don't.
The concrete saws I worked on were Masonry brick&block saqws-these had gas motors or electric motors and were used to cut bricks and blocks to size.They used 14" diamond coarse grit blades-these blades would cost $400-$800 to buy.They could be used wet or dry-depending on the blade.Wet--no dust-but messy,muddy slurry that has to be cleaned out of the machines pan.water pumps have to be cleaned.Dry saws are messy too,in another way.The concrete dust flies all around the machine-gets sucked into gas or electric motors causing many problems.For the electric saws start and run motor caps have to be replaced.The gas motors-like that on chainsaws or lawnmowers.The dust and slurry wrecks havoc with them.The tool place had an account with a another shop to rebuild the gas motors.Same with gas powered aircompressors.I worked on the pumps and other parts.
I have to operate,maintian and repair the transmitters at our plant-I am the mid shift supervisor-work with 1,2 or three other guys.A transmitter that failed earlier in our shift is fixed-bad tube.The failed tube figure its still new enough to get it reimbursed under warrantee.For motor communtators-use a motor dressing stone-available from Graingers or large motor repar shops-the stones do two things-clean and polish the communtator bars-and "seat" new brushes installed in the motor.You use them while the motor runs.Saves alot of time.No one I know wants to clean motor armature communtators by hand.I like tube tech too,but is quickly being superseded.You can now by 500Kw SW transmitters with only like 2 tubes in them.There are now all solid state medium wave(regular AM)transmitters up to 1 million watts output.For this still prefer the tubes-I liken it to tubes(elephants pulling the load)or solid state(ants pulling the load)You need THOUSANDS of transistors in a 1 meg tranmsitter-but only 2 tubes.Very large tubes at that!I have worked on all types of tranmstters new and old.It is kinda interesting-but can be a pain at times.And you are hurried to fix it at min airtime lost.
I work on the SW transmitters for a living-hope it continues.The youngest of the rigs here are 30yrs old-500Kw one is from Germany-AEG S4005,the other from Switzerland-BK55.500Kw it has an early first generation solid state modulator-its holding up well since some guys who know this rig better than me rebuilt them.There are 3 General Electric 250Kw SW transmitters here-going on 50 yrs old.They were built during the Cold War era as this site was-commissioned in 1963 By then Pres Kennedy.Then there are 3 Continental Electronics 420A tranmsitters that are 65 yrs old-they have been repainted-they are the same colors as your "Lolly" saw.Hate to use them.Tube technology abounds here-and some tubes cost over $150,000 so we handle them carefully.Come in Washer sized crates shipped from France,Germany,or Switzerland.We so wish for new transmitters-but won't happen.New rigs are now 1.5 Mil each!!!
In my goings with tools,radios and such you have two classes of people that deal with them--"Users"(Eggbert would be a Users machine)"Lolly" would be a "Collectors"
Machine-one that won't get used.Users USE their things-Collectors as a rule-don't.
The concrete saws I worked on were Masonry brick&block saqws-these had gas motors or electric motors and were used to cut bricks and blocks to size.They used 14" diamond coarse grit blades-these blades would cost $400-$800 to buy.They could be used wet or dry-depending on the blade.Wet--no dust-but messy,muddy slurry that has to be cleaned out of the machines pan.water pumps have to be cleaned.Dry saws are messy too,in another way.The concrete dust flies all around the machine-gets sucked into gas or electric motors causing many problems.For the electric saws start and run motor caps have to be replaced.The gas motors-like that on chainsaws or lawnmowers.The dust and slurry wrecks havoc with them.The tool place had an account with a another shop to rebuild the gas motors.Same with gas powered aircompressors.I worked on the pumps and other parts.
I have to operate,maintian and repair the transmitters at our plant-I am the mid shift supervisor-work with 1,2 or three other guys.A transmitter that failed earlier in our shift is fixed-bad tube.The failed tube figure its still new enough to get it reimbursed under warrantee.For motor communtators-use a motor dressing stone-available from Graingers or large motor repar shops-the stones do two things-clean and polish the communtator bars-and "seat" new brushes installed in the motor.You use them while the motor runs.Saves alot of time.No one I know wants to clean motor armature communtators by hand.I like tube tech too,but is quickly being superseded.You can now by 500Kw SW transmitters with only like 2 tubes in them.There are now all solid state medium wave(regular AM)transmitters up to 1 million watts output.For this still prefer the tubes-I liken it to tubes(elephants pulling the load)or solid state(ants pulling the load)You need THOUSANDS of transistors in a 1 meg tranmsitter-but only 2 tubes.Very large tubes at that!I have worked on all types of tranmstters new and old.It is kinda interesting-but can be a pain at times.And you are hurried to fix it at min airtime lost.
