vacmeister76
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Sears best from 1982ish to 1984.Woodgrain have disappeared.
Sears Best 2 speed Kenmore
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electroluxxxx
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Number 9 from circa 1982 was the same exact one I had. I miss it a lot and it was in fab shape
aeoliandave
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thanks for all these great Catalogue pictures.
I've reached the conclusion that both of mine are missing their under lid interior tool trays. Bummer...
The green one has gone downstairs to the basement to take up its new assignment as two speed reed organ vacuum pump. It may very well be there for it's own 20 year duty.
LOL
The blue is more cosmetically intact anyway and has earned a full makeover. Used it today while cleaning up the kitchen floor mess with a borrowed Electrolux PN3. Now if I can just come up with the tool tray...
Dave
I've reached the conclusion that both of mine are missing their under lid interior tool trays. Bummer...
The green one has gone downstairs to the basement to take up its new assignment as two speed reed organ vacuum pump. It may very well be there for it's own 20 year duty.
LOL
The blue is more cosmetically intact anyway and has earned a full makeover. Used it today while cleaning up the kitchen floor mess with a borrowed Electrolux PN3. Now if I can just come up with the tool tray...
Dave
Thanks also for the catalogue pictures. Even though my Kenmore is a different model, I'm surprised it still has all its tools and barely attatched lid covering them. It also has the power head outlet, even though it didn't seem to come with it.
danemodsandy
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Dave:
"I've reached the conclusion that both of mine are missing their under lid interior tool trays."
If you'll look at your machines, you'll see slots on the top of their lids- the ones you thought were for a "tool fence".
Those are your clue that your models used the exterior tool tray shown in several photos here- it fit on top of the lid. They are not easy to find, because they were vulnerable to damage. They had little hook-shaped tabs on their lower edge; the tabs fit the slots on the lid. Many of them had their tabs broken by people who wanted to remove the tray for some reason, and didn't know how. You had to slide the tray towards the front of the machine, then lift up. Even then, the tabs could break, because they fit the slots so tightly. When I had a Sears Best machine, it came with a broken tray. After a few months' hunting, I found a parts machine with a good one. For some odd reason, Sears evidently didn't consider the tray to be part of the machine, but rather, part of the accessories. When they did catalogue photography on these machines, notice that the machine was photographed without the tray, and the tray depicted as one of the attachment items. I guess the tray hid too much of that luuuuuuvly fake woodgrain.
I remember that Sears' term for the tray was a "tool garden", at least for a few editions of the catalogue.
"I've reached the conclusion that both of mine are missing their under lid interior tool trays."
If you'll look at your machines, you'll see slots on the top of their lids- the ones you thought were for a "tool fence".
Those are your clue that your models used the exterior tool tray shown in several photos here- it fit on top of the lid. They are not easy to find, because they were vulnerable to damage. They had little hook-shaped tabs on their lower edge; the tabs fit the slots on the lid. Many of them had their tabs broken by people who wanted to remove the tray for some reason, and didn't know how. You had to slide the tray towards the front of the machine, then lift up. Even then, the tabs could break, because they fit the slots so tightly. When I had a Sears Best machine, it came with a broken tray. After a few months' hunting, I found a parts machine with a good one. For some odd reason, Sears evidently didn't consider the tray to be part of the machine, but rather, part of the accessories. When they did catalogue photography on these machines, notice that the machine was photographed without the tray, and the tray depicted as one of the attachment items. I guess the tray hid too much of that luuuuuuvly fake woodgrain.
I remember that Sears' term for the tray was a "tool garden", at least for a few editions of the catalogue.
vacmeister76
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Tool tray
My mom have one of those in the 1970s. Its a green sears best model and have a circa 1960s power head.Those tool trays (I called them removable tool racks)Fit on top of canister for easy access to attachments or can be stored under canister lid.I don't have a picture for it.
My mom have one of those in the 1970s. Its a green sears best model and have a circa 1960s power head.Those tool trays (I called them removable tool racks)Fit on top of canister for easy access to attachments or can be stored under canister lid.I don't have a picture for it.
