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[huskyvacs]

I'm 26 and I'm a new collector, having just started last fall, but I have been around vacuums ever since I could walk. I'm working on learning to repair vacuums, I just need to have a clear workbench to operate on them at.

I have all kinds of vacuums in various stages of disrepair I get for cheap. I like all kinds of vacuums from the 20's to today, it depends on its styling and features and if it has some kind of cool gadgets on it.

I do prefer my Kirbys but I am no brand loyalist. I just bought a brand new Eureka on rollback at Walmmart (half off) and it is an amazing vacuum, and it's in a very beautiful burnt orange and black color combo. For the really old antique vacs I have a Bee Vac from a unique general store in Wisconsin (specially branded on the model plate), an Air Way of unknown model, and a Hoover 700 Special. For all other vacuums, I pluck out whatever ones I find interesting at the thrift stores, and if they are not too expensive, on eBay.

I try to help people here when I can if I know about the topic, and I also study other's replies and save them for quick reference when i start digging into my vacs to repair.

I own a Husky and a pomeranian and a cat, and my other hobbies include videogames and Hot Wheels and cellphone collecting. Not heavily dedicated 24/7 to all the collections but I do add to them when I can and maintain them. Lately jsut been trying to sell off excess stuff I don't need around the house on eBay and keep it tidy. Been doing a bit of light gardening and landscaping around the house as well since I'm a bit of a handyman of all tasks when applicable.

 

[kirbyduh]

Hello!

Hi Patrick,

I don't post as often as I would like, as I stay really busy with work, but welcome to this community!

My favorite modern cleaners are the Black Rainbow E2 and Tristar EXL.

I use my Kirby Avalir quite often, but I am sort of conflicted about how much I actually enjoy using it. It seems like using newer Kirbys has become a very stale experience- it is high time Kirby redesigned their machines. There is PLENTY of room in the floor nozzle to fit a direct drive brush motor inside the brushroll, which would then open up the current belt path for a quick connect hose to clean up small messes...

 

[tolivac]

Patrick:I have the Maytag white tandem air and the Riccar Radiance Premium Pearl white vacuum.Like the dirt finder lights.Also have a used Simplicity Synergy that has the lights.It is in a weird copper-brown irredescent color.Looks cool under my HPS and Metal Halide lights-collect those,too.Like the Tacony vacuums-well made machines and no nonsense-work well.

 

[panasonicvac]

Hi Patrick

I usually don't post on vacuumland often but glad you're here.

I'm a die hard Panasonic fan, I think I'm their only number 1 vacuum fan in the entire world lol. It's too bad they no longer make vacuums anymore but that doesn't change my passion about them and one of my dreams is to collect as many Panasonics that matter to me the most.

I have 3 favorites. However though, they are no longer contemporary.

Panasonic MC-V7387

Panasonic MC-V6255

And Vacumaid P-125

I know I have some of my other favorites but I like these 3 the most out of all the rest of them.

My favorite type of vacuum of all time are metal bypass uprights which are like the ones you would find at a vacuum store such as Panasonic, Tacony(Riccar or Simplicity), Dust care(Evolution or Cirrus), Sanyo and Sharp but out of all of those brands I still prefer Panasonic.

I also like older vacuums like Hoover Elites, Eureka Bravos, Dirt Devil MVPs, etc.
And I also like old school vacuums which includes the newer versions today like Electrolux(Aerus), Kirby, Royal, Rainbow, Filter queen, Eureka(Sanitaire version), or Hoover commercial vacs.
But I love like central vacs, I would never live in a house without one.

Anyways I have a YouTube channel that shows some of my favorites on there. I currently have the MC-V6255 and P-125 on there but I'm still working on getting into the MC-V7387.

http://https//www.youtube.com/channel/UCjLE0lq2W1kzXr4TP1EcH7g?view_as=subscriber

 

[honestjoe68]

Hi Everybody!

Thanks for the info on the Tandem Air brushroll Devin, I too love that sound when you hear the vacuum working to pick up dirt. I will eventually get one I’m sure but I just have a lot more vacuums higher on the priority list LOL. But it’s definitely one I will add as I LOVE all things Tacony.

Hi Phillip.. WOW I’d love to have a separate dedicated area for my vacuum collection. With 250 plus Vacuums from handheld, stick, upright, cordless and a few canister vacuums I basically have them all lined up and arranged in the entire spare bedroom of our home. I have the collectibles in their boxes and some others that I don’t use every day in storage (climate controlled too) but I’d love to have a huge room that I could line the walls with shelves and platforms to display them all properly. Thank you for sharing and Pugs are pretty adorable! Thanks

Hello Nick.. Great share and thank you so much for giving details and sharing your fond memories of growing up and discovering vacuum cleaners. I too was a bit afraid of my Moms Hoover Senior. But curiosity won out and I eventually ended up loving it and begging Mom to let me vacuum. Fond memories and I appreciate you sharing yours too, I especially love your share about you and your Dad at Target buying the Dyson DC07. I miss mine as I had the Purple Animal model and regret selling it. I’m very sorry to hear you too were a child of divorce and I hope all is well with your family now. My parents divorced when I was 10 years old and I think my fascination with vacuums got more in-depth as a way for me to cope with the sadness. Then when things got better and my Mom remarried a great guy, I was SO happy my new Dad always supported my love of vacuum cleaners and he never made me feel weird or shame for my non-typical hobby. I am SO HAPPY you were able to get another Fantom Fury too! Thank you for your great share!

Hi Huskyvacs, I understand if you want anonymity but I wish I could at least call you by your first name, as you’ve been so nice and friendly on here and I just feel odd not knowing what to address you so I am respectful. Anyhow, I appreciate you and your input and thank you for your great share too. It’s awesome you have such a wide variety of interests and hobbies. Sometimes I wish I did too as I feel like sometimes maybe I’m a bit TOO much obsessed with vacuum cleaners. But I have been busy outdoors lately too as we just had a new concrete driveway added to our home and the front porch deck was rotting away so it was rebuilt too. I am not super handy but a fast learner and can follow instructions, so I was thrilled when the family friend who rebuilt our deck was VERY patient with me and allowed me to help rebuild the deck. Maybe we should start a thread where we could share pictures of our Pets?? They are vacuum related as the sweet walking fur balls contribute lots of hair for us to vacuum up! LOL. I’d love to see a few pics of your husky and cat. Thanks for your sharing!

Hello Lane, My Uncle lives in Louisville and some others in our family are in Lexington Kentucky. About 2/3rds of us live in Ohio now so it’s great we still get to visit Kentucky too. I Love the mountains and every time we cross over that bridge and I see the “Entering Kentucky” sign.. I almost feel at home, even though I was born here in Ohio. Anyhow, thank you for your share too! The black Rainbow 2 is a beautiful machine and I really wish I could see a Rainbow vacuum in person and vacuum with one. I haven’t even had an interest in water filteration vacuums until this blog and the more I see pictures and hear about the wonderful aspects of them.. well I am very interested now. The Tristar ELX is a cool vacuum too and one I had at my the pleasure of using at my first job. It wasn’t maintained very well so I got permission to take it home and clean it up. It was so nice and well built it just took a bit of TLC and it ran beautifully again. Great ideas with the Kirby too... is your Avalir the Black and Red model or did you buy the new Avalir 2? I love my Kirby Sentria 2 and even though blue is my favorite color and the newest Avalir 2 is really a cool color scheme.. I am still very satisfied with my Sentria 2. That’s the only thing about a Kirby.. they are made so well you don’t really have a reason to buy the newest model for example just to get a new color. Plus I LOVE the design of the Kirby Sentria 2 Bag! Love the tan and teal colors so much I bought an extra bag for it just in case I need it years from now. Thank you for your share and I understand the “busy” of life, but even a quick hello is cool too and we’d love to keep hearing from you. Thank you.

Hey Rex! Don’t you just Love that Maytag M1200!! Your Riccar Radiance Premium sounds gorgeous too, I’m not sure If I’ve seen the pearl white Riccar before? If you ever get a chance, could you post a picture or two of your vacuums? I bet your Simplicity was beautiful too, I saw that color at the dealer and it is very cool. No pressure, but if you get the time and don’t mind.. please share pics as I LOVE to see other peoples vacuums. It’s funny but to this day I think all my friends know to call me when they need a new vacuum and they all show me what they own and are supportive of my collection hobby. It’s funny but I find myself SO delighted by Vacuum cleaners that if I see “that look” of confusion or question on someone’s face in the vacuum cleaner aisle or I hear them ask.. I wonder if this would work well for us. Something takes over me and I politely ask them questions about their flooring and cleaning needs and try to help them find what will best work for their needs. Most of the time I already own the vacuum(s) in question so I can tell them first hand my experiences and the pros and cons of each. It’s exciting to see them put a vacuum in their cart and to help them make a more informed choice. Thank you again Rex for your nice comments and your share here today.

Thank you to everyone, as always I am greatful for the kindness and friendly welcome to Vacuumland and I appreciate each and every one of you! I hope to see more people share, not only to continue this thread but also as I am enjoying how people share fond memories too! We all need a reminder of the good things in life and to share happy memories.. sometimes life can knock us down or be difficult.. but one thing can bring us all together.. that is the fondness for vacuum cleaners and collecting them.

Patrick

 

[honestjoe68]

@panasonicvac

Alex,

WOW.. I too Love a Panasonic vacuum and I will be subscribing to your YouTube as soon as I finish typing this comment. Thank you for your share and I am sorry I didn’t see it as I was composing my last comment while you posted yours. Some of my favorite vacuums are “Panasonic” as I had a few Kenmore that I know Panasonic made for Sears. I also had a white, bagless Panasonic Cyclonic Aeroblast vacuum that I loved and thought was genius as the entire dirt cup and cyclone assembly came apart with a twist so you could wash the entire insides so you could eliminate pet odors. I LOVED that vacuum and the only reason I don’t have it anymore is my best friend needed a vacuum to clean up after her four dogs, Boston Terriers and a Pug, that she could keep clean as she disliked the odor of dog fur. So it was only a few days old to me, but I gifted it to her and she still loves it and uses it. That was 7 or 8 years ago and I still wish I’d bought another for myself. (See picture 1). OH and Sanyo and Sharp.. I used to LOVE their vacuum designs and wish I’d had more of them. I had maybe 5 or 6 Sanyo and 8 or 10 Sharp, but sadly about 6 or 8 years ago, I got to the point of 200 vacuums in my collection and decided to sell them all but 50. So they all went to good homes, but I do regret a lot of those sales. Oh well live and learn I guess. Now I am up to 250 again and this time I am storing the limited or those special to me and selling off maybe 100 or so only this time. If I’m not 100% sure I want to part with it this time, I won’t sell it, but I keep thinking if I make more room, I can add newer vacuums!

I also have, in my wishlist, on Amazon the Panasonic MC-UG223 Bagged Upright vacuum and will eventually buy it because I LOVE the color and it’s a Panasonic so I know it will be quiet and work great! I have many vacuums that I’d love to own again that Panasonic made, but I haven’t found them yet or just haven’t had the chance to add them to my collection yet. I make myself stick to my vacuum cleaner budget and sometimes it’s hard to not just order them at 3am on Amazon! LOL

So thank you so much for your share and I have added pictures of my vacuums that I “Think” are made by Panasonic and when I order that Bright Green upright... I’ll definitely add pictures here! Oh and the Silver and Purple Stick vacuum is one I always wanted too.

Thank you! Patrick

 

[hmc1981]

Hello

I’m a bit late to respond, but... here I am!

I’ve always loved vacuums, Kirby in particular. It’s only recently (this past month) that I’ve really started collecting, reasons are lengthy but let’s just say I’m happy to finally be able to do what I’ve wanted for so long.

I’ll attach some pics, I don’t have all of them lined up together, as some are on the second floor.

I just find a great deal of pleasure in finding and restoring these things. My newest is an Avalir (red trim) and my oldest is a mismatched D80 with some Classic III components... I’m trying to return it to the D80 it was built as, but my first steps really are getting it buffed properly, as I’ve already serviced the motor.

Anyhoo. Glad to hear from you, I’m new here myself, don’t really have anyone I speak with, so I hope this thread will help change that.

Current vacuums are:

Avalir
Sentria 2
G4
D80 with Classic III components (a very odd OfferUp buy)
And...

A Sanitaire. Good little cleaner it’s very basic and simple, but they perform really well.

 

[honestjoe68]

@hmc1981

Hi Chris!

Welcome and yes I would love to keep in touch and share collection stories! In case you haven’t noticed by my “Lengthy” posts.. I love to talk, so you definitely have a friend to speak with anytime you want. Oh and I posted my email as well, so any vacuum questions or comments can be directly sent and if I can, I will always help out or answer what I can about vacuums.

LOVE your vacuum collection and of course your Kirby Sentria 2 is my favorite for obvious reasons LOL. I just love the colors and bag design! Great looking Sanitaire too, I am partial to those and Eureka of that era too. As I’ve said before in comments, I’m not a big fan of the color red, but your Avalir is very sharp looking and the extra touches of Red are nice. Still if I have to choose my favorite color, it’s blue or green in any shade. Also, I have to admit the Red Classic 3 is really a sharp looker too! I can’t help but love that Kirby and the ones older, simply as a child I always remember seeing a Kirby at someone’s home and it left the most impact. Being a 50 year old, I have very fond memories of visiting relatives or friends of my parents, etc and the pure delight of seeing that persons vacuum cleaner! The Hoover’s and the Electrolux and Kirby vacuums made the biggest impressions and I’ll never forget the first time I saw the Dual Sanitronic 80 Kirby, I was maybe 7 years old and we were visiting one of my parents friends. That vacuum made my eyes pop out and the hairs on my neck stand up.. it was maybe 4 or 5 years old, but looked brand new and so shiny! I remember touching it like it was a magnificent art sculpture in a fine museum and being in awe of the craftsmanship and beauty of this machine that (kinda scared me) at that age but WOW was it a memory I’ll never forget.

Ok, again I ramble on and on! But welcome Chris and thank you for sharing! Please keep in touch and share anything, anytime! Have a great week everyone!

Patrick

 

[panasonicvac]

Patrick

There's a factory serviced MC-UL910 that's available if you wish to find one of those again.

My sister-in-law just recently bought a MC-UG223 from Amazon that replaced their Carpet Pro and she overall loves it! The only downfall is the cord is rather short but it's a bottom of the line Panasonic so it's not something to expect compare to their top of the line models. But other than that, I'd say go for it if you want one of those.

Even though I'm not much of a bagless fan, the only ones that I desperately want to find are those Power-On-Demand models. I've always thought those were one of the coolest vacuums that I've ever seen.

http://www.vcdiscounter.com/panasonic-mc-ul910-factory-serviced-bagless-upright-vacuum/

 

[fantomfan]

A brief introduction from me...

I started collecting in 2009, and the vacuum that started it all was 1997 Fantom Thunder than my Mom and I pick up for $20 on Craigslist. I used the hell out of it for the first few years I had it. Now, it tends to sit but I pull it out now and again. The motor still runs great, like it did when I got it. I also maintain it by blowing out the motor housing/cyclone assembly often. My Fantom obsession started around 2000 when my Aunt sent me free infomercial tapes directly from Fantom Technologies. It was a form of a promotion to try to sell you a Fantom. Every one I watched like educational television. Now, I have many Fantoms, but I've come across other wonderful brands, namely Compact, Rainbow, Royal, and Electrolux. Pretty much all of the canister/tank vacuums I like, I have an example of in my collection. As far as newer vacuums go, I firmly believe Hoover makes the best vacuums for under $200, namely the Hoover Tempo, which clean carpets extraordinarily well for a $70 vacuum. I'm not into newer vacuums unless they are high end makes. I don't care for bagless machines and I tolerate Fantoms for their sentimentality. Here is the list of all the machines that I like that are still made:

-Kirby Sentria II (now the Avalir 2): Incredibly well built and reliable, large capacity bags and excellent cleaning ability. Bulky, and cumbersome but not too many modern vacuums can outclean it.

-Rainbow E2 Black- like the Kirby, a bit bulky and cumbersome but it has excellent cleaning ability. Rainbows are a favorite of mine because they truly make the air feel cleaner after you've used one. I love the fact the vacuum never smells, because you cannot (or should not) store the dirt inside it when you're done.

-Hoover Tempo- definitely the best upright out there for under $100- it's not much more expensive than a Bissell Powerforce but it is built better and cleans better. It filters decently if you use HEPA Y bags in it. The cleaning ability and airflow this has is incredible for the low price it sells for. &#92

-Hoover multi cyclonic uprights- for the price you pay, the Windtunnel/Air bagless uprights seem to offer everything the average consumer wants for a low price. I've had good luck with them. Even though I'd never buy one for myself, they clean and filter well for a bagless vacuum. They are super easy to maintain and they have a good service reputation, unlike Shark. I always recommend Hoover uprights when a friend wants a low cost bagless upright.

Eureka Mighty Mite- the design is dated but you can't beat the power it has for the price. You can make it filter better with the HEPA filter installed too. The bags are small but plentiful. They've really cut costs with the machine over the years but for the price, it offers a lot of power, and a lot less messy clean up with disposable bags instead of a bagless container.

 

[vacuumdevil]

What a splendid idea we need more comradery in the vacuum world!
There's just too much drama out there glad to see this post!
My name is Alex I run a YouTube channel called performance reviews.
I was a vacuum technician for 16 years.
I prefer to collect older American machines and European machines.
you can find a lot of my post under the hashtag #CentralVacuumpropaganda

I also love Central Vacuumms& and have an affinity for anything mechanical.