Kirby 508 Restoration Complete

[charles~richard]

You may recall that a month or so ago, I posted photos of a Kirby 508 (vintage 1948) that I had taken apart with the intention of restoring it <br
Well, that work has been done. See link <br
(btw I posted this message once but it disappeared. Maybe the Vacuumland central vac system swooped it up. So here it is again - sorry if it turns out to be a double-posting.


http://www.137.com/kirby508

 

[lux1521]

Your link is dead. It works if your take the extra character(s) off the end.

 

[constellation86]

Wonderful job Chareles! It looks like new
I'll have my tradition in the mail monday. J
I'm sure it was a labor of love
Nicholas

 

[compactelectra]

The Link

Has been magically repaired by the webmaster.

Fred

 

[compactelectra]

By The Way

Charles - you did a fabulous job!

Fred

 

[luxg]

Thank you so much Fred for doing that!!! Charles another beautiful job! It is truly amazing what can be done to these machines to bring them back to life!!!

 

[charles~richard]

Hm, don't know what I did with the link, but thank you Maestro Webmaster for correcting it!

 

[lux1521]

One of the biggest questions that comes to mind when I see an artical like this is how do you get those scratches out? For me it takes a very long time. I'm just wondering if there is a special trick to it.

The results are fantastic and you can't tell that it was ever scratched that bad.

 

[mihi]

just a fantastic job!

You really did the job on this one. Very, very nice. I've got to get me a Royal someday.

 

[mihi]

whoops.....

I mean older Kirby!

 

[hygiene903]

Excellent Work, Charles!!

The end result is BEAUTIFUL!! Congratulations on a job well done!!
Jeff

 

[charles~richard]

I posted two videos of the 508 to YouTube. Here they are!

 

[charles~richard]

 

[crevicetool]

Just beautiful Charles....

Just love shiny metal! You did a great job! Another machine once on the brink of junk now restored to original classiness! (If there is such a word)!!!

Rick

spellcheck says we're good to go on the classiness.

 

[normvac]

Awesome job Charlie, thanks so much for sharing the process with all of us !
Norm

 

[charles~richard]

how do you get those scratches out?

I have a smaller version of this:

 

[charles~richard]

(thx for the photos, compactelectra!)

 

[charles~richard]

Here's my rig:

 

[charles~richard]