Collection pics

[sleepdoc]

A few new additions since I took group photos have are on display now. I don't keep some of my vintage cleaners out in the rec room for display except for the older Kirbies that fit into the lineup and are sentimental. The two ESP Eureka uprights are now out on dispay because Tacony is now making their TOL Hi Flow HEPA bags in F and G style. I bought a box and now regard their filtration as good enough to actually clean my carpets without blowing allergens around. In the same spirit, I've brought out the classic Electrolux upright from the Silverado period. That venerable machine needs its own thread because I need some repair parts that might be hard to find.

I really have tried to line up my vacuums on display in a way that each machine could be directly accessible and visible, but between buying a number of new machines lately and moving others from storage to display, I now just have a a military-like formation of vacuums in lines a columns. It's a lot more crowded than I wanted, but at least I have found space for all except one Electrolux canister I'd like to display, which is a Model LX, and its footprint is not exactly modest. So here are some photos, if you'd like to look at them.

 

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[bagintheback]

Very nice collection. There are HEPA F&G bags now? I will have to check that out at my Riccar dealer.

 

[encorevacuums]

My God, what an expensive collection. Does your entire salary to toward your colletion!!?? LOL!

 

[jayelux]

Drooling

Wow! Really impressive. How do you organize and store the accessories, bags, hoses, etc?

 

[atrac]

Wow...

..that's vacuum cleaner porn if I've ever seen it!

NICE!!

 

[kirbykid63]

Very impressed

You have many of my favorites.

 

[eurekaprince]

Love the Hunter Green Eureka Rugulator Wide-Track! *drooling*

Very classy colour scheme for a top-performing Eureka! If I lived next door I'd be borrowing it a lot!!!!

EP Brian

 

[countryguy]

Great looking vacs!  I noticed that you have a Sebo C series.  How do you like it as compared to the Miele?


 


Gary

 

[isufan11]

Love the Eureka Widetrack! Both sets of my grandparents had one I remember as a kid my grandma would let me run it in the sun room, she would always say "its just too much for a little boy to handle someone could get hurt"

Very Impressive collection I am very envious.

 

[sleepdoc]

Sebe vs Miele canisters

I really like both of them. Miele power nozzles are better and overall are little easier to use across the board, but the Sebo is quiet, powerful, very well built, and a great cleaner. I wouldn't choose it over the Miele, but it's a grade A vacuum.

 

[sleepdoc]

My vacuum spending

Lately, I have been overspending on vacuums, but that's been a function of some awesome machines becoming available all within the last month. Having said that, all of the vacuums I've recently bought except the Lux Guardian upright have been used, just in such good condition they look brand new. Then I detail clean them meticulously, removing every scuff or white paint spot and smudge on the machine before I put it out. The Simplicity Freedom upright is a special version of the TOL F3700 called a Sand Machine, which is a promotional, not functional or structural, variation. It was rebuilt and sold to me at cost at the factory. So, those machines you see in my collection look like they cost a WHOLE LOT more than I paid for them. I've still spent too much money on vacuums lately, but I couldn't turn down some great deals, and the other Aerus thread was tormenting me into wanting a Guardian so badly I just didn't wanna deal with thinking about it anymore.

 

[sleepdoc]

The Eureka uprights

I've gotten the most responses of the entire collection to the 1980s Eureka ESP uprights, which I've started displaying since I bought HEPA bags for them at Simplicity. I haven't been using or displaying them because I haven't trusted their filtration to be up to my standards, but that changed now that Tacony started making their excellent Hi Flow HEPA bags for F and G Eurekas.

I need to point out that both of those machines that people have been raving about were gifts to me from John Pease, who personally performed the stunning restorations on both of them. So, thanks John!

 

[henrydreyfuss]

No way!

You can get the Riccar HEPA bags in style F&G!? That sounds awesome!

Lovely collection btw! Lot's of great vacs in there, and a wide variety! I'm envious of the DC25 Blueprint!

 

[sleepdoc]

Yup

You sure can! It's that cool! That's why I'm using them now.

 

[twocvbloke]

I see a Golden Trophy Tradition, I think that's 4 or 5 I know of now, including my own...