Kirby Lengend ll

[kirbyclassiciii]

Bill,

I also sent you an e-mail regarding what the plant code number means on my 1989 Legend II (s/n 4890314320).

Thank you,



Ben

 

[a007kirbyman]

Ben & Kirby 2HD LII serial #

Hello Ben.

To answer your question Ben, the first digit in the serial number (1HD~G10) on an individual Kirby, represents which plant it was made in. And, when there was/is a substantial change in the model(s), then the first digit would change also.

Your particular Kirby Legend II was made in Andrews, TX. (serial #4890314320)


I also sent you an email earlier with my contact info. & answer to your question.



Cheers & hagn/d all,


Bill

 

[madabouthoovers]

My Kirby 1HE has the chevron shaped brushroll and no rug guards either:

It also has KIRBY stamped on the brushroll too, so its a genuine one as far as I can see.

 

[madabouthoovers]

Here is a picture off Ebay of another 1HE, manufactured 11/82 but showing the rug plate WITH the rug guards. I presume that later models of Heritage cleaners had them fitted:

 

[kirbyclassiciii]

Kirby Heritage 84 (by twocvbloke)



This video by twocvbloke shows that the rug nozzle on this Heritage 84 (an April 1984 build) has only a single crossbar (watch at 1:26), suggesting the plate is the unguarded first version (maybe replacement?).

Serial # is 1840407920 - which, going by the first number and Bill's information, suggests it was made in Cleveland, OH.

~Ben

 

[madabouthoovers]

Notice also that on the predecessor to the Heritage, the Tradition did have rug guards fitted on the rug plate, so it seems that the Heritage could have been the only model to have had them omitted - my guess is that it helped to give a more aggressive clean to the carpet fibres by drawing them deeper into the nozzle.

A Tradition rug plate:

 

[madabouthoovers]

Here is a (rather dirty) Legend 2, again off ebay, WITH the rug guards, so there must have been some reason why they started fitting them again having not done it on the Heritage:

 

[kirbyclassiciii]

About that Heritage 84 of Dave C.'s with the single dividing bar, I suspect that was probably from leftover stock - a case of older parts being used up.

I also want to say that even here in the U.S., the Legend II attachments produced after around July 1990 were molded from the same tooling as the G3 attachments, except for the spray/Suds-O-Gun and the air intake guard.

~Ben

 

[electrolux137]

Interesting. I've never seen the Legend II attachment kit in the G3 style. Have to say, I do prefer the earlier version. The longer and narrower rug nozzle in particular is much lovelier and also much easier to get into corners, narrow spaces etc., than the more rectangular-shaped G3 nozzle.

 

[kirbyclassiciii]

The very early Heritage I brush rolls--in both the standard 16" and the shorter 13" flavors--actually had a 180-degree helix pattern, according to the pictures of a 1982 Kirby Heritage (built 1/82) in this thread:
http://www.vacuumland.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?6461

It would appear Kirby changed the brush roll bristle arrangement to the 90-degree helix design when the rug plate was redesigned.

~Ben

 

[hooverjedilord]

Alex, never used the shampoo system you say? This video begs to differ

http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=19m8ffB4HmA

 

[turbo500]

This video begs to differ

This thread is almost 3 years old.


 


Alex made the statement that he hadn't used the shampoo system on 5th June 2012. That video was uploaded on 07th January 2013, so at the time Alex made that statement, it was completely true.


 


Mystery solved.