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Five Kirbys

Dual Santronic 80, Heritage II, Tradition, G3, G4, Felix.

My fondest favorite is the Santronic 80, followed by the Tradition with it's streamlined head. But they are not self-propelled...I luvs power-assisted anything!

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G5 joins the Parade.

I'd have to say all these Kirby models deep clean and groom the carpet equally. You know you have a solid piece of serious heavy metal in your hands and between your...ankles.

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Part two - Friday March 20

On the way home from the Grocery store I stopped at Goodwill.

Found this nice one speed Black & Decker short handle drill. $5.
Runs fine, should come in handy. One can never have too many power tools.

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Never too many power tools - Woo Hoo!

Rooting around in the toy department looking for Serta Sheep I couldn't believe what I was seeing buried under the stuffed animals!!!

Complete and pristine in the original box with an un-used sticker sheet for 'atomic-izing' the tall cylinders, missing only one blue ball. $10. YES!!!

Put in two D batteries and started picking things up & rotating them in all sortsa crazy positions.

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I so wanted one of these as a young mad scientist. Oc course, I wouldn't hang out with nerdy dorks like those be-specticled knobs.

Yeah, like I didn't look exactly like that myself at the Hobby Fair...:-)

Radio Shack Armatron 2364 - The Armatron, manufactured and sold by Radio Shack in the late 70's and early 80's, is completely mechanical. There is a single motor that drives a transmission of sorts and the joysticks manipulate the transmission to rotate shafts that use more gears to extend the length of the arm.
The controls consist of two joysticks, the timer and an on-off switch. Two "D" cell batteries go in the bottom and the timer is just used for some games that came with the set when it was new. It gives you about 8 minutes to run. With the two joysticks you can: open and close the hand , rotate the hand, raise and lower the wrist, move the elbow side to side, raise and lower the arm, rotate the whole arm around the base.The grippers are spring loaded so you can grab things with varying degrees of pressure which is useful for heavier objects. There are rubber fingertips on the gripper so they're a little sticky for picking stuff up.

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Kicked almost to the curb and definitely abandoned to the Wh

On the way back home along a side street there's a small factory that closed up a few weeks ago. Somehow I spotted this from a moving car, among the garbage cans 100 feet away at the side of the building by the empty employee parking lot. Building dark and locked up tight, no one to ask, so...

Nothing wrong with it that I could detect other than major scratching on top of the base. So home it came.

The Type Z bag is full to bursting. Runs great. I like the black body with the orange graphics and cord. And godammit, it's a HOOVER, eh!

Gotta find me some Type Z bags now.

Dave

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Commercial Hoover

A Bags should work in that I think. To think what that cost new,, I don't think they were cheap when sold at Acklands Grainger etc.
 
Hi Dave
I have that same fantom. I think that the Cyclone XT came out in the early months of 2000. I paid about $20 for shipping but the vacuum was free and I love it. I also was wondering about what it pulled on the suction meter and I thank you for letting us know. 95" WOW I knew that it was powerful but not that powerful.

Mike
 
Kind of a waste of a higher capacity A Bag.

The A bag does fit, Pete and that's what's in it now. But it is about 5" too long at the bottom, which I folded & tucked under, and can only expand one pleat's worth as the bag compartment is shallower because of the 1.5" deep 'HEPA' pad cavity. Not a HEPA pad at all, it's three layers of scouring pad 'foam' bonded together (white, yellow, green) about 1/2" thick called an 'Allergen Filtration cassette and it is easily vacuumed clean and washable, too. LOL

The headlight area has an opaque filler panel snapped in where a clear lens would go and no lamp socket.

Mike, the XT has a rubber flap valve that snaps shut when the hose is extended, diverting full suction to the hose/wand, the handle of which becomes the nozzle end. Full retraction and bedding of the hose/wand does the reverse - cuts all suction to what is now the vacuum handle, restoring full suction to the brushroll area.

The Hoovers use a sliding gate across the brushroll channel with the hose/tool option slider on the base, that cuts off suction airflow from the brushroll area but nowhere near full suction is usable as the airways up the belt channels either side are open and the hose merely opens into one of these slipstreams.

Dave

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Just plain stupid.

I just can't believe someone was so stupid to do this. If I had an expensive vacuum like the Kirby G5, and it wasn't picking up I would at least take it to a Kirby repairman and have him take a look at it before I would put it out on the curb. I wish I could drive and had a small truck, I would be driving around on bulk pickup days here in Bettendorf. You would be surprised what rich people throw away because it doesn't look right, or some other idiotic reason. I would would have a basement full of washers, dryers, dishwashers, and lord knows how many vacuum cleaners I would have. LOL
 
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