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new very old eureka vacuum??
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from another ad--->
This is a vintage Eureka Rugulator vacuum in excellent condition and working. This is when they made them to last and this one has very little use. Please see pictures.
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This is a vintage Eureka Rugulator vacuum in excellent condition and working. This is when they made them to last and this one has very little use. Please see pictures.
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Oh geeze
That's not a link, you just pasted an address. This is a link... trust it to an old fart to have to show a young guy how to work a computer right.
Now do you want me to tell you how to do it right or not.. if not then don't be so lazy and do it right the first time.
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http://kansascity.craigslist.org/clt/1099742798.html
That's not a link, you just pasted an address. This is a link... trust it to an old fart to have to show a young guy how to work a computer right.
Now do you want me to tell you how to do it right or not.. if not then don't be so lazy and do it right the first time.
HA
http://kansascity.craigslist.org/clt/1099742798.html
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Your right Sam and of course Pete !!! HE HEE !!
Great vac !
Norm
Great vac !
Norm
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I gotta reply...
So,
IMHO a very similar model to Pete's , but different. As we have seen thru various posts, Eureka put out ALOT of different models over the years, and while Pete, you model is similar; it's different. I will definitely put my stamp as longtime collector... that unless anyone else thinks so and has proof; It's original, and VERY much worth the 65 dollars asked. If I wasn't going to Sarnia Sunday, I'd make the trip just to have it honestly.
This has the Chrome hood and the green painted base, which in Eureka's grand scheme of things was enough to make a different model, jsut as Hoover later did with the gaggle of A, B and C line Convertibles from the 1970's and 80's..
Advertising tells me that this machine hails from the 1972-73 area, and up at my folks I have a 1973 BH&G that features this very machine with that very bag. I also am 100% it's definitely previous to my Golden Power Touch that I'm also certain hails from 1974-75 .Why I say? Because I have another BH&G advertisement from June of 1974 featuring my machine calling it "The King Of The Jungle" which refers to the readily purchased and loved shag carpets from back then.... In fact my machine is the 2083, but there was another model just like it that had a chrome hood, A "Very Special Model" if you will, that featured nothing more than the substitution of painted hood mine has. I believe the chrome hood model was the 2082.
That said, if you really look at the bag it's got a very light greenish tint to it, except the box top, which is of course white. The only thing I feel that throws me for a loop, is there is NO plastique cloisonne Electric E and EUREKA badge going vertically down one side of the bag, as many did. However looking just to my right to my golden, mine has no badge on the bag either. It hails from the same time frame as Pete's, but must again be a "Very Special Model" or a Promotional as Hoover would wont to call their machines that were slightly different from the one beside it.
Contrast all this bag questioning, that, behind me with it's new Canned ham brother is my 2089 Brandwine Cordaway Upright, which has the logo on the box top bag. So go figure....
I really do think it's original, and whoever gets it hopefully a collector should be mighty pleased...
Pete I'm really looking forward to Sunday...BUT wait??? Where was that deliche Eureka machine on my last visit??? WOW I can't wait to see that one in person....
Chad
So,
IMHO a very similar model to Pete's , but different. As we have seen thru various posts, Eureka put out ALOT of different models over the years, and while Pete, you model is similar; it's different. I will definitely put my stamp as longtime collector... that unless anyone else thinks so and has proof; It's original, and VERY much worth the 65 dollars asked. If I wasn't going to Sarnia Sunday, I'd make the trip just to have it honestly.
This has the Chrome hood and the green painted base, which in Eureka's grand scheme of things was enough to make a different model, jsut as Hoover later did with the gaggle of A, B and C line Convertibles from the 1970's and 80's..
Advertising tells me that this machine hails from the 1972-73 area, and up at my folks I have a 1973 BH&G that features this very machine with that very bag. I also am 100% it's definitely previous to my Golden Power Touch that I'm also certain hails from 1974-75 .Why I say? Because I have another BH&G advertisement from June of 1974 featuring my machine calling it "The King Of The Jungle" which refers to the readily purchased and loved shag carpets from back then.... In fact my machine is the 2083, but there was another model just like it that had a chrome hood, A "Very Special Model" if you will, that featured nothing more than the substitution of painted hood mine has. I believe the chrome hood model was the 2082.
That said, if you really look at the bag it's got a very light greenish tint to it, except the box top, which is of course white. The only thing I feel that throws me for a loop, is there is NO plastique cloisonne Electric E and EUREKA badge going vertically down one side of the bag, as many did. However looking just to my right to my golden, mine has no badge on the bag either. It hails from the same time frame as Pete's, but must again be a "Very Special Model" or a Promotional as Hoover would wont to call their machines that were slightly different from the one beside it.
Contrast all this bag questioning, that, behind me with it's new Canned ham brother is my 2089 Brandwine Cordaway Upright, which has the logo on the box top bag. So go figure....
I really do think it's original, and whoever gets it hopefully a collector should be mighty pleased...
Pete I'm really looking forward to Sunday...BUT wait??? Where was that deliche Eureka machine on my last visit??? WOW I can't wait to see that one in person....
Chad
Well I guess it could be so.. odd though they'd have such a non-descript bag on a TOL cleaner. As for the $65 is only that it exceeds my normal $20 ish limit. Now if in fact that is the original bag and it is a little greener in real life than it looks and so make the vac look better then I would probably spring for it. The base looks pretty scar free.
Chad,
Thanks for clearing that up. I really thought that it had a gold base and couldn't tell it was actually green, so therefor I thought it had an incorrect bag on it although it apparently dosen't. I think it would look better if the bag was a metallic green like the base.
Sam
Thanks for clearing that up. I really thought that it had a gold base and couldn't tell it was actually green, so therefor I thought it had an incorrect bag on it although it apparently dosen't. I think it would look better if the bag was a metallic green like the base.
Sam
eurekaprince
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Chad......We bought a Eureka 2083 Cordaway Upright in 1974.
My father used to be the advertising director for Sanyo in Canada and because of that, he subscribed to a lot of trade magazines. One of the magazines or newspapers he used to get was "Home Furnishings Daily", which often had great full colour corporate ads from the major manufacturers. And so I would drool at the ads vac makers would have in HFD.
In 1974, Consumer Reports came out with a full report on upright and canister cleaners. As I was already a Eureka Prince in those days, I was elated to see how well the company did in that report. (If anyone has that issue, it would be great to have it scanned for the citizens of Vacuumland). Anyhow, to this day, I remember the rankings of the Eureka's: the model 2042 Upright was a Best Buy and ranked first, then the model 2082 with Cordaway, then the model 2072 without the Cordaway. In canisters, the new Eureka Power Teams were all top-rated (except the Empress Two Power Team - something about dangers inherent in the way the cord ran from the hose to the main unit), and number one was a basic red Princess canister married to a bare-bones red Roto-Matic powerhead.
Anyhoodle, I matched this report to a 1974 Eureka ad in HFD which I think preceeded the semi-annual housewares show at Chicago's McKormick Place. Eureka had a 3 - page insert showing their entire line in full colour. And I was able to match all the cleaners to the Consumer Reports article.
At the same time, it just so happened that Mom wanted Dad to get her a replacement for her blue Eureka Automatic Upright from 1960 or that or thereabouts. So I showed Dad the Consumer Reports magazine and we decided on the 2082 with Cordaway. A few weeks later he brought home our new vacuum. It was a Eureka Model 2083. The difference between the 2082 and the newer 2083 was the fact that Eureka had added two little dents into the bottom brush guard plate and marketed these new dents as "Edge Kleeners". So the Edge Kleener feature arrived on the scene soon after the 1974 Consumer Reports focus on vacs was printed. You can even see that the labelling for the "Edge Kleeners" were cheap decals affixed to the gold base of a 2082 on both ends of the base near the front - easily scratched off in a few short years. The two dents in the base and the two cheap decals turned a 2082 into a 2083.
I loved that 2083 - it was an amazing machine that lasted for over 20 years without any major repairs.
My father used to be the advertising director for Sanyo in Canada and because of that, he subscribed to a lot of trade magazines. One of the magazines or newspapers he used to get was "Home Furnishings Daily", which often had great full colour corporate ads from the major manufacturers. And so I would drool at the ads vac makers would have in HFD.
In 1974, Consumer Reports came out with a full report on upright and canister cleaners. As I was already a Eureka Prince in those days, I was elated to see how well the company did in that report. (If anyone has that issue, it would be great to have it scanned for the citizens of Vacuumland). Anyhow, to this day, I remember the rankings of the Eureka's: the model 2042 Upright was a Best Buy and ranked first, then the model 2082 with Cordaway, then the model 2072 without the Cordaway. In canisters, the new Eureka Power Teams were all top-rated (except the Empress Two Power Team - something about dangers inherent in the way the cord ran from the hose to the main unit), and number one was a basic red Princess canister married to a bare-bones red Roto-Matic powerhead.
Anyhoodle, I matched this report to a 1974 Eureka ad in HFD which I think preceeded the semi-annual housewares show at Chicago's McKormick Place. Eureka had a 3 - page insert showing their entire line in full colour. And I was able to match all the cleaners to the Consumer Reports article.
At the same time, it just so happened that Mom wanted Dad to get her a replacement for her blue Eureka Automatic Upright from 1960 or that or thereabouts. So I showed Dad the Consumer Reports magazine and we decided on the 2082 with Cordaway. A few weeks later he brought home our new vacuum. It was a Eureka Model 2083. The difference between the 2082 and the newer 2083 was the fact that Eureka had added two little dents into the bottom brush guard plate and marketed these new dents as "Edge Kleeners". So the Edge Kleener feature arrived on the scene soon after the 1974 Consumer Reports focus on vacs was printed. You can even see that the labelling for the "Edge Kleeners" were cheap decals affixed to the gold base of a 2082 on both ends of the base near the front - easily scratched off in a few short years. The two dents in the base and the two cheap decals turned a 2082 into a 2083.
I loved that 2083 - it was an amazing machine that lasted for over 20 years without any major repairs.
eurekaprince
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Addition to above post.....
Oh, I forgot to mention that in the 1974 three-page corporate ad by Eureka in HFD, they showed that both the 2082 and the 2072 uprights had Eureka Beige hoods, alongside almost identical versions with chrome hoods and a slight change in model number. Maybe the chrome hooded cleaners were 2052 and 2062, can't remember.
I do remember that the cheaper 1974 Eureka uprights in the 1400 range had bright orange or red bases! We bought a nice basic orange-based one (metal two-piece handle but without a headlight) for our apartment in Florida a year or two later!
Oh, I forgot to mention that in the 1974 three-page corporate ad by Eureka in HFD, they showed that both the 2082 and the 2072 uprights had Eureka Beige hoods, alongside almost identical versions with chrome hoods and a slight change in model number. Maybe the chrome hooded cleaners were 2052 and 2062, can't remember.
I do remember that the cheaper 1974 Eureka uprights in the 1400 range had bright orange or red bases! We bought a nice basic orange-based one (metal two-piece handle but without a headlight) for our apartment in Florida a year or two later!
