Kirby Tradition all cleaned up

[70catalina]

Here she is after the Mothers treatment. When I tore it down I noticed the wheel near the Emtor still had the factory plastic on the hub cap!

 

[70catalina]

Right

 

[70catalina]

Left

 

[madabouthoovers]

Very nice - a beautiful vac indeed and a lot of hard work went into polishing it up i'll bet. Its always very satisfying polishing an old Kirby when you see the end result, in that a 35 year old vac looks brand new again.
The Tradition is definitely a model I want to obtain myself, but the ones we get in the UK usually look beyond redemption when they appear on Ebay.

 

[craig_1982]

Very nice that Tradition it look's lovely great job, they have to my favourite Kirby model.
Craig

 

[ncovert]

Very nice Tradition. I see you went with a new shakeout bag. Did you remember to remove the disposable bag adapter?

 

[kirbymodel2c]

Great...

<span style="font-size: medium; font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Great job you've done there!</span>


 


<span style="font-size: medium; font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">James

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[70catalina]

ncovert

Bag adaptor is gone. The fill tube had a few tears in it also. I'm still surprised how thick the bag is compared to older shakeout bags. Seems like it would last forever.

~Jim

 

[ultimatevacman]

Looks amazing! Nice work!

 

[electroluxkirby]

Beautiful!