Got Another Heritage...

[human]

I'm beginning to think I may need an intervention. I'm more than broken out with vacuum cleaners but nonetheless, I just bought a Kirby Heritage 84 from Shopgoodwill.com. It was cheap at $22 ($38 all in with shipping, handling and sales tax) and an absolute steal by eBay standards, but I really didn't need it. I guess I'm just a sucker for a bright orange bag. From an aesthetic standpoint, the Heritage 1 is my favorite of that series although I prefer the functional refinements of the Heritage 2 Legend and Legend 2 models.

Looking at the photos, it has a disposable filter bag system, presumably using Style 2 bags, instead of a dump bag system. Somewhere, I have a small supply of these bags left over from a Heritage 1HD that I loaned to a (now former) girlfriend and never got back. I had thought to use those up first before retrofitting that machine with a Heritage 2 style fill tube topper to tap into my even larger supply Type 3 bags. Yesterday, I looked for them in my barn, where I last remember seeing them but could not find them. While I've had no immediate use for them before now, I'm sure I would not have tossed them out.

After pricing Style 2 bags online, I've determined it would cost about the same to buy a half dozen bags as to go ahead and do the conversion, making the latter option more cost effective in the long run. Still, I may hold off for a little while in hope that the bags turn up. I can always temporarily fit the machine with a spare H2 bag assembly to test it out. Murphy's law being what it is, the bags would certainly show up the moment I had the H2 fill tube topper in place.

Oh well, I'm just borrowing trouble at this point since the machine hasn't even shipped out yet. Once it arrives, I'll do a more thorough assessment of what it needs and come up with a more solid plan.

 

[suckolux]

Good luck! Have fun.

 

[human]

Update: I Found 'Em!

I went back out to the barn to do a little more digging and actually found what I was looking for! I was just digging through the wrong pile of stuff. The good news is that things are a little more organized in there now.

I feel better knowing I'm ready for this vacuum when it arrives, having five Style 2 bags on hand to use up. I can just ditch the existing inner bag when it arrives, if it hasn't already been thrown out, wash the outer bag if necessary, and be ready to roll. Of course, fairly unlikely chance that the H2 conversion has already been done, I'm good with that as well as it will save me the cost of buying that part and I can put those bags back in the barn for another eventual 'someday'.

 

[huskyvacs]

Yeah shopgoodwill has some kind of freight brokerage with FedEx in how they get heavy or enormous stuff shipped for cheap. It's my go-to site for buying giant bulky stuff. I bought an entire mini fridge off them before and only cost $12 for shipping. The only downside is they have little to no punishment for fake bidders so people bid stuff up into the thousands of $$$ for a $100 item then not pay for it. It gets annoying to have to keep re-bidding on items.

 

[human]

Yeah, I've often wondered if FedEx is able to take a charitable write-off for the amount by which they discount their shipping for Shopgoodwill.com.

 

[jscarlato]

My Heritage 1 . . .

I wanted a Heritage 1 for my collection, and I got one from Kent Oyler after he serviced the motor and put in a kevlar fan. I had him replace the used dump bag with a new zippered bag, an H2 mini emtor, and a new fill tube with an F-style bag connector. I also included a new ball-bearing brush roll. The metal needed cleaned up, and I took care of that. This oldie but goodie runs like new.

 

[human]

Nice machine...

I have a Heritage that I updated that way almost two years ago. It's not quite a pretty as yours but then, it wasn't professionally restored, either. I polished it up as best I could, replaced the dump bag with an H2 bag setup and a few other needed parts. The icing on the cake was when a fellow member was kind enough to send me a brand new orange bag for it. Looks so much nicer than it did with the gray H2 bag I had on it.

The one I just bought will be the third one I've owned. From the photos, it looks to be in semi-rough shape with the rubber bumper coming off the floor nozzle and a generally dull finish. I will do a mechanical assessment when it arrives. It hasn't even shipped out, yet. It will make a nice fall/winter project. Like I said, I'm just a sucker for an orange bag.

 

[lesinutah]

The

Heritage from Kent is nice. I have one exactly like it. Is been in my wife's family since it was new.
They have black Kevlar fans I wonder if they are differ from the white fans.

 

[jscarlato]

Well . . .

I really don't know if the color of the fan makes a difference. The new orange bag is bright and attractive. I like the whole Heritage line--Heritage I through Legend II. They are all stylish and clean well. Another good-looking vacuum is my Kirby Tradition. I consider it as an introduction to the Heritage line. That blue color was stunning when that vac came out. Kirby went from blue to orange with the Heritage. Blue and orange are complementary colors. The blue on the Avalir 2 doesn't quite make it for me.

 

[jscarlato]

Drifting just a bit . . .

Apologies for drifting away just a bit from the Heritage discussion, but since I mentioned my Kirby Tradition in my post above, I thought I would show some pics. My thought about this vacuum is its style can be an introduction to the Heritage line--from blue to orange to gray to maroon. The Kirby G series vacuums are well made and are stylish in their own way. I know, as I have several of them. But, I have an affinity for the Kirby models that preceded the G series.

 

[human]

Despite its name, the Tradition was actually an extension of the Classic family as indicated by its model number, 3CB. Its immediate predecessor, the Classic III, was model 2CB. In many ways though, the Tradition was a bridge model between the Classic and Heritage series.

I do find myself drawn to the orange and gray color schemes of both the Heritage and the Sentria models.

I just got an email a little while ago that my Heritage 84 shipped out this morning for a projected Thursday delivery. I'll be glad when it gets here.

 

[jscarlato]

When your Heritage arrives, put up a couple of pics to show what it looks like out of the box. Give a prognosis of what you have to do to bring it up to your standards.

 

[human]

I'll do it, as I always do. Meanwhile, here are screen captures of the photos from the ShopGoodwill listing. My only small concern at this juncture is the rubber bumper. I'm hoping it hasn't been torn loose from its rivet and can just be pressed back on but I'll worry about that once it reaches my hands.

 

[blackheart]

oh funny!

I think I bid on that same unit. Shipping prices seem to vary quite a bit on the site sometimes they're inexpensive while other times they're absurd. Enjoy your new machine,nice to fill that "hole" left in your collection by the carelessness of another.

 

[kirbyklekter]

Heritage lineup confusion

Are there four or five or six model Heritages? If six do they list as Heritage 84, Heritage, Heritage I, Heritage II, Heritage II Legend and Legend II or are a couple of these actually the same? My confusion is with the first three I listed, because I've heard all of these referred to over the years from different people. Then again, I used to get mixed up on ICR, 2CB etc etc so nothing new here!

 

[human]

A matter of perspective...

Depending on how you look at it, there could be only two models, 1HD and 2HD. I think the Heritage and Heritge 84 are really the same model, just with different decals on the handle, kind of like the different Gsix variants (Gsix Performance, 2000 Limited Edition, 2001 Limited Edition). I'll check it when my H84 comes tomorrow but I'm pretty sure it will be a 1HD, just like the other Heritage I have. My Heritage II Legend and Legend II are both model 2HD; in fact, my Legend II even has a label on the bottom that says "Heritage II". The only difference is the color scheme, although I think the Legend II tools may have been updated to the G series style from the older style that were holdovers from the Classic era or maybe earlier. I've never seen a Heritage II in the flesh but I wouldn't be surprised if they're model 2HD as well. As far as I'm aware, the only substantive difference between the Heritage II and Heritage II Legend is the nozzle. The Heritage II has the same nozzle as the Heritage 1HD while the H2 Legend has a redesigned nozzle that it shares with the Legend II.

 

[human]

Here We Go Again...

So the Heritage 84 didn't arrive today. I didn't really expect it to since FedEx let it sit two days at its origin point in Cincinnati and it only departed this morning. It got as far as a city about 75 miles from here and no new delivery date has been posted. I suppose a weekend delivery is possible; after all, they delivered my Classic III on a Sunday after sending it on a grand tour of local FedEx facilities to replace a torn barcode sticker but I'm not banking on that. My guess is Monday will be more likely. I'm choosing not to worry about that right now. It'll get here when it gets here.

 

[human]

The Heritage Has Landed!

So I went home for lunch today because I had to meet someone who was gong to do some work on the bumper of my car and I found a humongous package sitting on my front porch, blocking the door. The vacuum arrived a day late but intact, despite the demolished condition of the box in which they had shipped the machine fully assembled!

I didn't have time to do more than unbox it and make some cursory observations:

-The rubber bumper is in good shape; it had apparently just gotten pulled up on one corner.
-The original cord has been replaced with a black one for a Heritage II. No biggie.
-It has its original Style 2 bag system. I took the existing bag out and the thing must have weighed two or three pounds. Glad I found my stash of Style 2 bags!
-On firing it up, the motor sounds great but the headlight is out.

I'll tear into it more and launder the bag this afternoon. I think it'll clean up and shine up nicely.

 

[kirbyclassiciii]

human

Edgar,

Glad to hear it finally made it!

A replacement light bulb is part no. 109273.

~Ben