Sear's best? I'm Impressed!

[blackheart]

So I came across this at a local Goodwill and figured i should snap it up. It's been pretty well cared for, though i've noticed the tool caddy is missing as well as the dusting brush, and the plug has been replaced. I've had multiple machines in this style and though i felt they were powerful i've never had the means to measure the airflow of them...Until now. Out of curiosity i hooked it to my baird meter with a clean bag and it pulled a 9! I don't think i've ever seen a power nozzle canister move this much air before i'm seriously impressed.

 

[wyaple]

Holy Moly a 9 From the Hose!

That's very rare, even for today's machines! Incidentally, a 9 out of the hose using the reducer is equivalent to 109 CFM, which is phenomenal. Now if you measured a 9 from the canister body, that's much more normal.

Bill

 

[paul]

I recently saw a pale green Kenmore canister in a thrift store without a power nozzle. It looked kind of cheap to me, but maybe it, too, has a lot of airflow?

I'm guessing that it was a '60s version. The model began with 116, but I don't recall the rest.

Congrats on your find!

 

[blackheart]

Sorry.

I should have specified that i got the 9/10 reading at the end of the hose, which is why that's so impressive.

 

[paul]

Model 116.29781 with Magicord

This is the model that I saw at a thrift store. It has a Kenmore 5023 filter bag.

I did a search on it and didn't find a thing! Either Kenmore vacuum cleaner collectors are rare or just don't list the models with their photos. It's surprising, though, that searspartsdirect.com doesn't have an archive for its discontinued items.

The one in ge1969's photo below is similar, but his looks white on top instead of the pale green. Does anyone know the production years, and if it's a good model? I ran it, and it sounded ok but louder than I'm used to hearing from vintage cleaners. It appears to have all the original Sears attachments except for the Powermate, but the floor brush and crevice tool are pale green while the dusting brush and upholstery nozzle are white.

 

[vacuumlad1650]

One of my all-time favorites! Mine is the green version

 

[delaneymeegan]

Great Find !

 


 


I have the canister, hose, and attachments, but only recently found the power nozzle.


 


Enjoy.

 

[paul]

Someone bought the cleaner I mentioned but left the pale green crevice tool behind, so I bought it. I've never seen one with ridges like that before-kinda cool.

 

[rugsucker]

Sears

When I was with Electrolux we would use a plastic tube to pick up and hold 4 steel balls as part of the demo of Olympias.Many vacs we would demo against would barely pick up 1 or 2.But not SEARS!If you showed the steel balls to a Sears customer they could pick up and hold them and then refuse to trade as theirs was "just as good".