Nilco / Fakir / Vanguard Upright

[michaelwalter]

Hi All

What a great day. This morning i'm the proud owner of a NOS Nilco upright. The ebay listing is: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Commercia...792346?hash=item2114608bda:g:xpcAAOSwEjFXe~45

Will now have to wait for it to arrive all the way from the UK.

Can anyone give me information on this one such as year?

Cheers

Mike

 

[sebo_fan]

Im not sure but sensotronic on here might be able to help. He's done a great video on his Nilco upright.

 

[tolivac]

I WANT one of those NILCO vacuums-You are right--its a BEAST!!Loved the sound of stuff being eaten by a metal fan-sounds like it anyway.Bet that thing would have eaten the paper clip and nail without difficulty.Sadly it did have trouble on some of those large peices of fluff-but did the job nonetheless.Seems like the belt may be designed to slip off the motor pulley in case of overload-protect belt and motor.Where can folks in the US get one of those-are they available in the US?Guess I will have to do as an old English school teacher said to me--"If you want to know--Look it up for yourself!"Remember Mrs Thomas from Jr High School.At my place would have to feed the peices of fluff to my NSS M1 or the MD Silentmaster Central vacuum.Imagine the Nilco paired as a powernozzle to one of the Central vacs I have!Will have to scope out how to get a Nilco.I have a Kirby 1600 Commercial vacuum that uses a bag like your Nilco.You can use it as a dump bag or with the paper insert bags.Loved how your Nilco ate that stuff off your floor adn looks like it could eat some more!The bag was poofed when you were done and the machine wasn't on!Looks like the paper bag did a good job of filtering-the outside didn't look dirty.It would be neat to adapt or find Filtrete bags for this vacuum.Then you could REALLY pack the bag full!GREAT Demo!!If you were a DTD salesman-I would have bought one!!

 

[tolivac]

Looked up the Nilco vacuums-only seem to be available in the UK.