3rdgenvacguy
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I found a 913 on our upper floor under a pile of my cousins's stuff to be recycled. I didn't even know it was there. I pulled it out, and it was pretty hit. The paint was peeling so bad, I decided to sandblast and respray the whole vac. I added NOS agitator holders and the front belt guard, NOS wheels, bag guard, and added a u7037 bag that I got off of ebay. I knew the original bag was black, but also knew it would be much harder to find. I was showing it to my brother and cousin at our vac shop, and we started talking about how you never see them anymore. Well today a customer came in with a Sanitaire SC887 that needed the fan replaced. Their company is literally 200 yards from our shop. He said his boss was wondering if we would take a vacuum in on trade in exchange for the repair on the sanitaire. I went outside to look at the vac. The customer opened the sliding door on his sprinter van and I had to almost laugh. Keeping cool, I said yea, I don't normally take trade ins, but we could work something out. Well it turned out to be a 918 so clean and original, it looks better than my resto. The first pic is the hit 913, the second the restored 913 and the third, the time capsule 918.
