Only 67 days left until the Convention......how's those machines coming?

[crevicetool]

Construction has officially begun on one of my entries in the non-cleaning contests. Thought I would let you all know that time is moving pretty quickly (snuck up on me too)!

Since this is a vacuum related thread...

(wait for it)


I have begun work on my UNIVERSAL upright

(Gawd - it felt good to type that word)

Here's a pic of the motor as it left the base for the first time in about seven hundred years.

Hey, BTW - how do you guys get those pulleys off when they are rusted on? I ain't too good on uprights....

 

[crevicetool]

UNIVERSAL upright work has begun......

This UNIVERSAL sat in water for a number of years I am guessing, and many of the parts are rusted. Salvageable - but rusted. Here is the two-piece UNIVERSAL rug-plate/belt cover getting treated with Navel Jelly prior to wire wheeling. Wondering if this design was exclusive to UNIVERSAL (I'm O D'ing) or not.

 

[crevicetool]

UNIVERSAL UNIVERSAL ......

yucky stuff!

 

[crevicetool]

Preparing to make a pattern....UNIVERSAL bag

Laying out what was left of the bag to make a new one.


Check out that knee....

 

[crevicetool]

That's it... no more UNIVERSAL upright pics until after the convention.

Get on those machines kids!

Rick

 

[brandon_w_t]

Well my raffle machine is doing great.

 

[kirbyeureka95]

excuse me for asking but...

what exactly is up with the name of universal on this site?! lol ive never actually found the answer

 

[brandon_w_t]

Universal is to Rick as uncle Sam is to country pride. You just can't separate the two!

 

[kirbyclassiciii]

What I would like to see as pictures from this year's convention are Tom Gasko's collection of Rainbow vacuums, including the 1980 model D2A and D3A.

Thank you,



Ben Edge (KirbyClassicIII)

 

[gottahaveahoove]

and, as HOOVER is

to some other folks,  Some, perhaps, in Ohio and possibly one in Pennsylvania,  around the base of the Pocono Mountains,  near Scranton, perhaps. I dunno.

 

[petek]

There's a convention?