aeoliandave
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Simplicities take on the dual mode Electrolux dusting brush/upholstery nozzle. They put natural bristle brushes on the fold-y bits.
Davy Sprocket is on the Road...
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aeoliandave
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But wait, there's more!
with one leg down it forms a 90 degree angle for...brushing off things with 90 degree outside corners. Or adjusts for any greater angle for that matter.
Streakers Steve and Brian. Steve on the left is the born in Oz one; Ohio born & raised Brian has lived in Australia for 14 (?) years and is quite proficient at the accent.
with one leg down it forms a 90 degree angle for...brushing off things with 90 degree outside corners. Or adjusts for any greater angle for that matter.
Streakers Steve and Brian. Steve on the left is the born in Oz one; Ohio born & raised Brian has lived in Australia for 14 (?) years and is quite proficient at the accent.
aeoliandave
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But wait, there's even more! Folded up the brush becomes a ventian blind slat brush. So clever, so obvious, so Simplicity did it!
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The real showstopper.
This being the Top of The Line it has what has to be a very expensive reflective metalflake automotive paint that changes color as you walk around. Deep red becomes a becoming green. You gotta see iot to appreciate it. Actually it kinda reminded me of my Grade 8 graduation suit I picked out myself decades ago. Remember those suits, anyone?
Anyway, the Simplicity looks way much better than my suit did.
A number of cars at last years Detroit North American International Auto Show had dual color shifting paint jobs like this. Subtle and utterly transfixingly gorgeous. I don't know what the paint chemistry is but I'm gonna find out, you betcha.
This being the Top of The Line it has what has to be a very expensive reflective metalflake automotive paint that changes color as you walk around. Deep red becomes a becoming green. You gotta see iot to appreciate it. Actually it kinda reminded me of my Grade 8 graduation suit I picked out myself decades ago. Remember those suits, anyone?
Anyway, the Simplicity looks way much better than my suit did.
A number of cars at last years Detroit North American International Auto Show had dual color shifting paint jobs like this. Subtle and utterly transfixingly gorgeous. I don't know what the paint chemistry is but I'm gonna find out, you betcha.
aeoliandave
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Time to head back to Norm's for the noon start of the Mini Meet.
Ed had graciously agreed to be the shipping destination for the Lewyt 55 I won from the NC57 Collection, a select few of which Crevicetool Rick and Terry put up on Ebay. The box was a bit larger than we asssumed and before I could insist otherwise, Steve bundled himself and it into the back seat with Brian and off we went.
To be continued...Almost 1 AM, Davy yawning. Sunday morning I am heading over to Springfield Ohio an hour west to tour an up until today unknown to me Frank Lloyd Wright Prairie house built in 1908-09 for the Wescott Family.
The gents were discussing the Springfield House when I arrived and I assumed they meant the Dana House in Springfield Illinois. The more I eavesdropped the more I understood I was wrong. Thanks Norm!
However long that and the Museum Shop takes me - I do tend to dawdle around Wright's magnificence - will decide if I make a direct run to Sarnia or stay over another night in the Toledo area. Oh wait, I must go shopping at J C Penny before leaving the USA. I suspect I will find it advantageous to stay another night at a Motel Super8. I do have all of Toledo's and Detroit's Thrift Stores programmed into the Garmin...
Dave
Ed had graciously agreed to be the shipping destination for the Lewyt 55 I won from the NC57 Collection, a select few of which Crevicetool Rick and Terry put up on Ebay. The box was a bit larger than we asssumed and before I could insist otherwise, Steve bundled himself and it into the back seat with Brian and off we went.
To be continued...Almost 1 AM, Davy yawning. Sunday morning I am heading over to Springfield Ohio an hour west to tour an up until today unknown to me Frank Lloyd Wright Prairie house built in 1908-09 for the Wescott Family.
The gents were discussing the Springfield House when I arrived and I assumed they meant the Dana House in Springfield Illinois. The more I eavesdropped the more I understood I was wrong. Thanks Norm!
However long that and the Museum Shop takes me - I do tend to dawdle around Wright's magnificence - will decide if I make a direct run to Sarnia or stay over another night in the Toledo area. Oh wait, I must go shopping at J C Penny before leaving the USA. I suspect I will find it advantageous to stay another night at a Motel Super8. I do have all of Toledo's and Detroit's Thrift Stores programmed into the Garmin...
Dave
Hi Guys.
I am sorry that I wasn't able to make it to Columbus today. I had a migraine headache. How was the mini-meet at Norm Brown's today?
Rob Gwisdala
I am sorry that I wasn't able to make it to Columbus today. I had a migraine headache. How was the mini-meet at Norm Brown's today?
Rob Gwisdala
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OMG
That Westy mixer is da BOMB! You've started me on a new quest.
That Westy mixer is da BOMB! You've started me on a new quest.
aeoliandave
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And we're back.
The four of us scurried back to Norms to await the noon arrival of the teaming hoards no doubt converging on Columbus...
Beautiful warming up sunny not-a-cloud-in-the-sky day it turned out to be.
First order of business - unboxing the Lewyt outdoors on the stoop so not to scatter static charged styromfoam packing all over Norm's home.
The four of us scurried back to Norms to await the noon arrival of the teaming hoards no doubt converging on Columbus...
Beautiful warming up sunny not-a-cloud-in-the-sky day it turned out to be.
First order of business - unboxing the Lewyt outdoors on the stoop so not to scatter static charged styromfoam packing all over Norm's home.
aeoliandave
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Careful. Some of those paper wads contain important objects...
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Dumpster diving.
Oh the joy of clambering through 10" of loose styrofoam peanuts and feeling solid mystery objects! Better get a closer look...
Oh the joy of clambering through 10" of loose styrofoam peanuts and feeling solid mystery objects! Better get a closer look...
aeoliandave
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memory dimmed by the excitement but I was sure there were more tools...has Crevictool forgotten to pack them in? All I'm coming up with are shards of nothing...
Oh well.
Norm, meantime lays claim to the cardboard box...says he has a large Christmas present to wrap for his grandaughter...we know Norm just wants to play in the cardboard box and make a fort after we leave.
Oh well.
Norm, meantime lays claim to the cardboard box...says he has a large Christmas present to wrap for his grandaughter...we know Norm just wants to play in the cardboard box and make a fort after we leave.
aeoliandave
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The adrenaline rush also dulls the common sense, too. Of course the missing tools are packed inside the vacuum.
I knew this Lewyt 55 looked good in the Ebay pics but I didn't expect it in this superb condition. Not a speck of rust and nary a disfiguring scratch or dent anywhere.
Lewyt's modified Dustalator filter that raised Healthmore's litigious ire when it was a pointed cloth cone.
Crevicetool Rules...feel the luv, buddy.
I knew this Lewyt 55 looked good in the Ebay pics but I didn't expect it in this superb condition. Not a speck of rust and nary a disfiguring scratch or dent anywhere.
Lewyt's modified Dustalator filter that raised Healthmore's litigious ire when it was a pointed cloth cone.
Crevicetool Rules...feel the luv, buddy.
aeoliandave
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Plugged it in, fired it up and it gave an impressive reading of 83" on the Vac-U-Tronic tester. We all agreed the motor sounded perfect.
So, while chatting and twiddling our thumbs waiting for more knocks on the door from the impending thundering herd clamoring to join in the fun, weoohed and ahhed over Norm's upstairs display.
Which is what I'll let Norm tell the stories behind them. But we did have to get fingerprints all over them all...
So, while chatting and twiddling our thumbs waiting for more knocks on the door from the impending thundering herd clamoring to join in the fun, weoohed and ahhed over Norm's upstairs display.
Which is what I'll let Norm tell the stories behind them. But we did have to get fingerprints all over them all...
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more
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a few more
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The 1205
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West wall vista.
The Christmas Hoover Tree is one that Norm had in his display at the North Canton Convention.
The Christmas Hoover Tree is one that Norm had in his display at the North Canton Convention.
aeoliandave
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Pardon guys, time for a long commercial break.
It is after 9 AM, I have to get cleaned up, check out and head over to Springfield to the Wescott house...and beyond.
Stay tuned for Part Two...The Basement. 'Til then, talk amongst yourselves in breathless anticipation.
Dave
It is after 9 AM, I have to get cleaned up, check out and head over to Springfield to the Wescott house...and beyond.
Stay tuned for Part Two...The Basement. 'Til then, talk amongst yourselves in breathless anticipation.
Dave
aeoliandave
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Yes indeed Terry, Rick sure does know how to pack those nooks, crannies & crevices snug and safe. Not for nothing is he the one and only Legendary Crevicetool.
I'll be expostulating all over and about the Lewyt when time permits but I will say how very thrilled I am to be it's caretaker and how grateful, and puzzled, I am to you two that this one didn't disappear into one of your southern friends' - fine gentlemen all - hoards.
I naturally assumed that the Dolly would be a stamped steel contrivance like GEs. You should have been there when I began exclaiming to my captive audience that it is a one piece aluminum casting!!!! without a chip or crack and the tools all match and fit!!! and so on...
Dave, off for a Wright fix.
I have decided to overnight in Toledo so I can hit all the Thrift Stores on my way back on Monday. And write some more of my Vacuum Adventure blather in a timely fashion.
I'll be expostulating all over and about the Lewyt when time permits but I will say how very thrilled I am to be it's caretaker and how grateful, and puzzled, I am to you two that this one didn't disappear into one of your southern friends' - fine gentlemen all - hoards.
I naturally assumed that the Dolly would be a stamped steel contrivance like GEs. You should have been there when I began exclaiming to my captive audience that it is a one piece aluminum casting!!!! without a chip or crack and the tools all match and fit!!! and so on...
Dave, off for a Wright fix.
I have decided to overnight in Toledo so I can hit all the Thrift Stores on my way back on Monday. And write some more of my Vacuum Adventure blather in a timely fashion.
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