earlieone
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Can anyone tell me how the eureka uprights that had the switch on the hand grip worked when using attachments?
Eureka upright 70"s
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rugmaster37
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You may be reffering to the
Robb,
I'm assuming here, but it seems that you may be reffering to Eureka's "Touch-Power" handgrip that was available on many of Eureka's TOL models during the 1970's. I believe that Wards offered a Signature model with the feature also during that period.
Heres a explanation of how the system worked. I"m about 99% positive on this matter as I have one like this. It'snot near me, but I've used it enough to know.
The "Touch-Power switch" so to speak was embedded on the bottom of the grip, where your fingers squeezed it while you were vacuuming carpets. It wasn't a rocker switch, it was more of a momentary lever that when squeezed activated the vacuum and when let go shut the vacuum off.
This grip was rather famous, or IN-famous depending on whom you have or have not talked to. The option was gone by the BrandyWine Eureka series in 1980. My 1974 Eureka Golden Touch Power 2082 has this feature, and while it's cool, and definitely has some merits, you do have to hold the grip tightly, otherwise the machine will turn on and off as your grip on it changed.
On the front of the handle, about 3 inches down from the grip where you would normally find the two or three position power rocker switch on lower end models with a one or two-speed motor, was a different type of three-position rocker switch.
Instead of reading OFF-ON, or OFF-HIGH-LOW for the non-TouchPower models, this three position rocker enabled you to select from the top to bottom HIGH-LOW-ATTACH. When you selected the ATTACH selection the machine turned on HIGH SPEED irregardless of whether the grip was squeezed or not.
This ATTACH positon of course allowed you to use the attachments without holding the grip which would have been crazy as a bedbug had they not added this in the feature.
If you selected HIGH for example, when you squeezed the handgrip the machine would vacuum on HIGH speed, and or LOW depending on where you set the rocker.
Hope that this helps you...
Maybe someone has a picture that they can show of this option? Jeff, Kyle ...anyone???
Chad
Robb,
I'm assuming here, but it seems that you may be reffering to Eureka's "Touch-Power" handgrip that was available on many of Eureka's TOL models during the 1970's. I believe that Wards offered a Signature model with the feature also during that period.
Heres a explanation of how the system worked. I"m about 99% positive on this matter as I have one like this. It'snot near me, but I've used it enough to know.
The "Touch-Power switch" so to speak was embedded on the bottom of the grip, where your fingers squeezed it while you were vacuuming carpets. It wasn't a rocker switch, it was more of a momentary lever that when squeezed activated the vacuum and when let go shut the vacuum off.
This grip was rather famous, or IN-famous depending on whom you have or have not talked to. The option was gone by the BrandyWine Eureka series in 1980. My 1974 Eureka Golden Touch Power 2082 has this feature, and while it's cool, and definitely has some merits, you do have to hold the grip tightly, otherwise the machine will turn on and off as your grip on it changed.
On the front of the handle, about 3 inches down from the grip where you would normally find the two or three position power rocker switch on lower end models with a one or two-speed motor, was a different type of three-position rocker switch.
Instead of reading OFF-ON, or OFF-HIGH-LOW for the non-TouchPower models, this three position rocker enabled you to select from the top to bottom HIGH-LOW-ATTACH. When you selected the ATTACH selection the machine turned on HIGH SPEED irregardless of whether the grip was squeezed or not.
This ATTACH positon of course allowed you to use the attachments without holding the grip which would have been crazy as a bedbug had they not added this in the feature.
If you selected HIGH for example, when you squeezed the handgrip the machine would vacuum on HIGH speed, and or LOW depending on where you set the rocker.
Hope that this helps you...
Maybe someone has a picture that they can show of this option? Jeff, Kyle ...anyone???
Chad
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Robb
Everything Chad said is correct. I have two of these type of uprights. I also have a beat up owmers manual that shows the grip switch in the handle and teh front rocker switch. However the picture shown showa OFF HIGH LOW but is decribes the ATTACH option.
Marty
Everything Chad said is correct. I have two of these type of uprights. I also have a beat up owmers manual that shows the grip switch in the handle and teh front rocker switch. However the picture shown showa OFF HIGH LOW but is decribes the ATTACH option.
Marty
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OH!
The picture does show the ATTACH HIGH LO switch. I must need glasses!
Marty
The picture does show the ATTACH HIGH LO switch. I must need glasses!
Marty
rugmaster37
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Ok so that 1% showed me up...LOL
So,
I was wrong about the selections on the rocker. It was as it shows in Marty's beautiful find of the exact look of the mechanism, and under grip momentary switch.
As I stated before my machine, along with many others are currently standing or are stored in state, up at "Mom-Haven", or my mothers basement, which until I can get a larger apartment, about 80% of my vacuums reside. So I did not have the dead accurate positions of the rocker as the manual described.
I am very fortunate to have that cleaner the 2082 BTW, one that our own Jeff Parker went thru quite alot of business, and trouble to get for me when he lived out in Nebraska so many years ago. Mine has the painted off white hood.
It's definitely one of my treasures for sure. In fact the very model I have, plus the chrome hood was just listed on E BAY here or may still be. Mine of course still has the gold brocade BOX-top bag. It's in a box under the basement stairs, along with others that are disassembled as well for easy storage purposes. I just don't have the room here in the one bedroom I have for all my stuff.
A work in progress hopefully remedied this fall.
Yours
Chad
So,
I was wrong about the selections on the rocker. It was as it shows in Marty's beautiful find of the exact look of the mechanism, and under grip momentary switch.
As I stated before my machine, along with many others are currently standing or are stored in state, up at "Mom-Haven", or my mothers basement, which until I can get a larger apartment, about 80% of my vacuums reside. So I did not have the dead accurate positions of the rocker as the manual described.
I am very fortunate to have that cleaner the 2082 BTW, one that our own Jeff Parker went thru quite alot of business, and trouble to get for me when he lived out in Nebraska so many years ago. Mine has the painted off white hood.
It's definitely one of my treasures for sure. In fact the very model I have, plus the chrome hood was just listed on E BAY here or may still be. Mine of course still has the gold brocade BOX-top bag. It's in a box under the basement stairs, along with others that are disassembled as well for easy storage purposes. I just don't have the room here in the one bedroom I have for all my stuff.
A work in progress hopefully remedied this fall.
Yours
Chad
earlieone
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thanks to both Chad and Marty. Marty I will be in Palm Springs again over Memorial Day. I hope that we can meet again and talk vacuum and see more of your collection.
Robb
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