Found another rare vacuum

[electrolux-dude]

Hey guys--I found this old vacuum at a garage sale. $5.00! How old is this and is it rare?

 

[electrolux-dude]

Pic

Here's another Picture

 

[electrolux-dude]

Another Picture

Picture 3

 

[petek]

It's a 1955/6 ish Kenmore Satellite. The one I grew up with, mom kept in the basement these last 40 odd years and she tossed out just before I moved back here

 

[electroluxxxx]

pete didn't those have the triangle shaped power heads

 

[tristar]

Now that's pretty cool. It looks sort of like a suitcase, but it looks SO 50s! How strong is it's suction? Comparable to other machines of the time?

 

[compactelectra]

Here's Mine

The Saturn. From the same period. These machines had celestial themes ala Sputnik. This one won a VCCC award for most historical significance given that it was one of the first power nozzle models.

 

[electrolux-dude]

Suction

Suction is amazing! Are Bags still available? No attachments--got just the vac and the hose. It does look to have a PN outlet.

 

[compactelectra]

Bags

Are NLA. ;-(

 

[electroluxxxx]

that is a really nice Saturn I love the shape of the machine and power head

 

[tristar]

SR Logo

I always LOVED that atomic-age Sears & Roebuck logo. I've got a Sears Silvertone "Solid State" receiver that has that logo on it. Always reminded me of a butterfly!

 

[electroluxxxx]

oooo Eric I have to see a pic of that. I am an audiophile and love the way vintage audio products looked and sounded. it is too bad that stuff is not made like that anymore

 

[vintageroyal611]

Nice machine

 

[andy]

Great find! I've never ran across any Kenmore canisters of this style/age. They seem pretty rare.

 

[petek]

They use those U shaped bags sort of like the Hoover type H, which who knows, could fit? The Kenmore bag was fatter though

 

[collector2]

the triangular power head was the standard model - there was also a delux L shaped powerhead according to the manual

Doug

 

[tristar]

Mike...

I'll get a picture of the old Silvertone this weekend. I've got several old receivers: 2 Sansuis, a Kenwood (currently on loan), a GE integrated unit, and of course the Sears.

The Sears is actually old enough to use Germanium transistors in it and surprisingly has not even one IC chip in it. Even FM tuning is 100% analog in it. For being rated at only 35 watts, it will SLAM. I've read on some forums that it is capable of putting out well over 100 watts per channel with 60-70 RMS being pretty typical into an 8Ω speaker coil. Talk about under-rated!

 

[petek]

The Satellite never had a power nozzle available did it? Ours didn't have one nor was their an outlet on the machine. Just the Saturn like Fred shows?

 

[collector2]

The Satellite had a powernozzle outlet on the lower left part of the bumper.