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Cool Dumpster Find...


That's definitely a neat find and lucky that almost all the tools were with it. Definitely worth rescuing. The wand looks to be a generic plastic one. I've had the same ones with several machines of different brands—a Douglas ATV shop vac, a Royal Prince 501 handheld, and even an Electrolux Discovery Plus.


As to why the machine went to the dumpster, there's no telling. thrift store logic is baffling at best. It could be somebody on staff considers used vacuums to be 'unsanitary'. I've noticed one of the Goodwill stores near me has started removing the bags from bagged vacuums, presumably as a sanitary measure, but at the same time, they don't seem to empty the bagless machines. Go figure...


The Goodwill stores around here send slow moving merchandise to their outlet center, where it's sold by the pound and sometimes by the pallet load. I've been to there once or twice where somebody apparently has bought a pallet, scavenged what they wanted, and left the rest on the sidewalk as free pickings for others. I've even found a few good things that way.


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