bvac6
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A friend of mine spotted this by a dumpster and immediately thought of me. It was clogged up with a thick snake of red carpet fibers and pet hair. The cord has tape on it and it needs a good polishing but it works well!
Kirby Ultimate G trash find
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delaneymeegan
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Wow, I'm not an upright fan, and especially Kirby, but don't you love dumpster finds! You're bringing something back from certain death.
And look at this thing, it's only a few years old. How could someone mistreat this like that?
It will be fun, I'm sure. After finding a treasure like this, I always wonder how many more I've missed.
suckolux
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That lucky sucker! Looks like I have one coming my way, I hope better cared for. My brother found a complette G7 last week at his goodwill store, He said its $20 want it? of course tech drive was out. He left it, perhaps I could have magivered it. Nice find, enjoy! Let us see when done??
suckolux
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That lucky sucker! Looks like I have one coming my way, I hope better cared for. My brother found a complette G7 last week at his goodwill store, He said its $20 want it? of course tech drive was out. He left it, perhaps I could have magivered it. Nice find, enjoy! Let us see when done??
suckolux
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That lucky sucker! Looks like I have one coming my way, I hope better cared for. My brother found a complette G7 last week at his goodwill store, He said its $20 want it? of course tech drive was out. He left it, perhaps I could have magivered it. Nice find, enjoy! Let us see when done??
suckolux
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That lucky sucker! Looks like I have one coming my way, I hope better cared for. My brother found a complette G7 last week at his goodwill store, He said its $20 want it? of course tech drive was out. He left it, perhaps I could have magivered it. Nice find, enjoy! Let us see when done??
delaneymeegan
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David
Do you have a problem posting? I see you've got four copies.
I had a problem responding. Must be a site issue.
Do you have a problem posting? I see you've got four copies.
I had a problem responding. Must be a site issue.
sptyks
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David, Tech Drive is easy to fix or replace. There are many how-to videos on Youtube.
suckolux
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Site issue, just kept showing it was trying to respond. Finally said site busy
human
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I love a good dumpster find...
I nabbed my first Kirby Gsix from beside a dumpster at the apartment complex where I used to live. It's amazing what people will throw away. Glad you rescued it.
I nabbed my first Kirby Gsix from beside a dumpster at the apartment complex where I used to live. It's amazing what people will throw away. Glad you rescued it.
KirbyCollector01
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I wish people would realize that newer isn't always better and that they shouldn't throw away something that still works.
Great find, good luck in restoring it.
Great find, good luck in restoring it.
delaneymeegan
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curb finds
Back "in the day" of my youth of 12 years old, we had "big junk week" usually twice a year. This is when one could throw out ANYTHING by simply placing it at the curb.
Furniture, tree limbs, cement, appliances, dead relatives, boxes and boxes of junk you hoarded in your basement, bags of leaves and grass, toxic chemicals, old medications, tires, auto parts, more furniture, tv antenna's, mattresses, kids swing sets, more dead relatives, etc. Generally stuff that today would be viewed as antiques, back then was just seen as garbage
Oh, it was like Christmas. A washing machine here, a dryer a few doors down, vacuum cleaners just thrown in the pile there, a wringer washer there.
I brought home the door to a mid 70s kenmore dishwasher that the owners kindly dismantled. I got the top to an Almond Norge dryer. A Hoover constellation with a damaged base. A Hoover Portable similar to Electroluxxxx recent find, only mine was brown. A 1960s double hot plate with indicator lights needed rewiring.
Wood, a chalk board, lamps, ......
I wonder if communities do "big Junk" anymore.
LOL. One year, the place I got the hot plate. threw out several boxes of old medications. My mother was having a mini fit. She called the city. "What if kids get into these (and they were)" LOL.
Aww, good times. Sure a few kids died from over dosing on what they thought was candy. It happens. lol.
Back "in the day" of my youth of 12 years old, we had "big junk week" usually twice a year. This is when one could throw out ANYTHING by simply placing it at the curb.
Furniture, tree limbs, cement, appliances, dead relatives, boxes and boxes of junk you hoarded in your basement, bags of leaves and grass, toxic chemicals, old medications, tires, auto parts, more furniture, tv antenna's, mattresses, kids swing sets, more dead relatives, etc. Generally stuff that today would be viewed as antiques, back then was just seen as garbage
Oh, it was like Christmas. A washing machine here, a dryer a few doors down, vacuum cleaners just thrown in the pile there, a wringer washer there.
I brought home the door to a mid 70s kenmore dishwasher that the owners kindly dismantled. I got the top to an Almond Norge dryer. A Hoover constellation with a damaged base. A Hoover Portable similar to Electroluxxxx recent find, only mine was brown. A 1960s double hot plate with indicator lights needed rewiring.
Wood, a chalk board, lamps, ......
I wonder if communities do "big Junk" anymore.
LOL. One year, the place I got the hot plate. threw out several boxes of old medications. My mother was having a mini fit. She called the city. "What if kids get into these (and they were)" LOL.
Aww, good times. Sure a few kids died from over dosing on what they thought was candy. It happens. lol.
Bulk trash days-see these on the Trash Truck videos-Usually a BIG RL truck is brought in for these-Like an EZ-Pak Goliath,Leech 2R,NewWay Cobras and so on.Yes rescue the "goodies" before the packers in these trucks mash it to bits!
bvac6
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Tech Drive
I've gotten it cleaned up well I just need to order a new cord. I noticed the tech drive was wonky so I opened it up and discovered that the little "fork" that hooks onto the plate that the handle slides back in forth on had somehow gotten knocked totally out of place. I can't imagine what had to be done to make that happen! I but it back in place and it's right as rain now.
I've gotten it cleaned up well I just need to order a new cord. I noticed the tech drive was wonky so I opened it up and discovered that the little "fork" that hooks onto the plate that the handle slides back in forth on had somehow gotten knocked totally out of place. I can't imagine what had to be done to make that happen! I but it back in place and it's right as rain now.
human
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Bvac6 wrote:
I opened it up and discovered that the little "fork" that hooks onto the plate that the handle slides back in forth on had somehow gotten knocked totally out of place. I can't imagine what had to be done to make that happen! I but it back in place and it's right as rain now.
I reply:
Don't you just love it when there's a simple fix to something like that? I think one of the greatest gifts my grandfather gave me when I was growing up was spending time showing me how to take things apart--everything from household appliances to radios to outboard motors--diagnose a problem and repair it. For many people in today's society of disposability, that seems to be a dying art. I'm glad a few of us are doing our part to keep it alive.
I opened it up and discovered that the little "fork" that hooks onto the plate that the handle slides back in forth on had somehow gotten knocked totally out of place. I can't imagine what had to be done to make that happen! I but it back in place and it's right as rain now.
I reply:
Don't you just love it when there's a simple fix to something like that? I think one of the greatest gifts my grandfather gave me when I was growing up was spending time showing me how to take things apart--everything from household appliances to radios to outboard motors--diagnose a problem and repair it. For many people in today's society of disposability, that seems to be a dying art. I'm glad a few of us are doing our part to keep it alive.
suckolux
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I am with you on that!
