vacuumkid3
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Really? I didn't know that! Well, I guess that solves the puzzle!
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Something you DON'T see everyday!! (with added bonus! YAY!)
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Kyle if you see the Premier that Dave just posted about in 2157 it looks almost identical to yours except for you have wheels and Daves has 4 little sleds, both have that strange bag pole etc and it looks like the switches etc are the same.
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Nice Airway Chief! The first time I saw one was back in the late 1970s when I lived in Annapolis, Maryland. I was walking up the street one day and saw one sitting at the curb - guess someone had put it there for the trash collector. It was the funniest looking sweeper I had ever seen! I was fascinated of course, and brought it home with me. I took it into the living room and was about to plug it in and try it out when my mom came in and had a fit! She said, "You get that thing out of here This Instant! You don't know what kind of filth might be inside it, and you might blow a fuse with it!" What a party pooper!!
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Airway...!!!!
Well done Kyle, its looks in fine fettle, and what a good feeling about bringing an old classic Back To Life...
That Magic Aire Bag Chamber looks interesting with the bad wrapped around the middle metal stalk, I suppose it was to increase the airflow???
I was amazed to see an Airway that Charlie demonstrated at the 2005 washer convention, and to see the way the "Cyclonic " airflow action works, spinning that dirt around...
Keep up the good work, Mike
Well done Kyle, its looks in fine fettle, and what a good feeling about bringing an old classic Back To Life...
That Magic Aire Bag Chamber looks interesting with the bad wrapped around the middle metal stalk, I suppose it was to increase the airflow???
I was amazed to see an Airway that Charlie demonstrated at the 2005 washer convention, and to see the way the "Cyclonic " airflow action works, spinning that dirt around...
Keep up the good work, Mike
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Indeed, Pete! They look like fraternal twins! 
Wow, Charles! That must have been a great find for you...just sitting on the curb like that! Was yours in good shape? Did your mom make you throw it out? But...I have parents with a similar nature...Oh, well!!
Thanks Mike! Yes, that bag chamber is designed to increase air-flow.
When I opened the bag chamber on my Air-Way 88 Mk. II, I noticed the exact same thing; the dirt was flying around in there! I guess this is why it can hold much stuff, as instead of sticking to the bag, it flies around, thus increasing the air-flow. Ingenious!
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Wow, Charles! That must have been a great find for you...just sitting on the curb like that! Was yours in good shape? Did your mom make you throw it out? But...I have parents with a similar nature...Oh, well!!
Thanks Mike! Yes, that bag chamber is designed to increase air-flow.
When I opened the bag chamber on my Air-Way 88 Mk. II, I noticed the exact same thing; the dirt was flying around in there! I guess this is why it can hold much stuff, as instead of sticking to the bag, it flies around, thus increasing the air-flow. Ingenious!
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That's right, Ian! :-D And I personally (IMHO) would chose an Air-Way over a Dyson ANYDAY! Well, unless someone paid me...I might change my mind then.
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The Air-Way I found was in good, all-original condition other than being tarnished. That, and the cloth cord, and the overall strange appearance, was what put off my mom. No, she did not make me throw it away but she wouldn't let me run it, either. Little did she know.......! "When the cat's away, the mice will play - with vacuums!" haha
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Hi Kyle Mr Snowflake is very handsome .I remember when he was just a kitten . Very nice vacuums .Take care Doug
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Ahh, Charlie! Is this the one you still have? Or do you still have a Chief? Don't you have a Green Goddess? Sounds like me with the mice quote! I kind of...well...played with some electricity when I wasn't supposed to...
Mr. Snowflake has grown up a lot. He can't fit into my pocket anymore, for instance. :-D
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Mr. Snowflake has grown up a lot. He can't fit into my pocket anymore, for instance. :-D
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It doesn't run...the armature seems shot. Sometimes it will just hum, but most times it will start up with a very strange sound. Is it possible for me to do file uploading? I would suppose not. Anyways...when it does start up, it kind of makes this vibrato-type sound and never achieves full speed. However, when it gets as fast as the dead armature can go, it is a very low pitch growl unlike that of the supposed high pitched whine. The bearings are fine. It is very easy to turn by hand. The brushes are brand new and are fully seated.
PLEASE: If anyone has a spare NOZZLE and an ARMATURE for this vacuum, let me know! I would love to find these two things as both are broken. Thanks!
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PLEASE: If anyone has a spare NOZZLE and an ARMATURE for this vacuum, let me know! I would love to find these two things as both are broken. Thanks!
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Kyle, you did a beautiful job on your Air-Way! That is a really cool looking vacuum. I also really like the Magic-Aire canister.
Yes Charles, I too am curious. Do you still have that Air-Way Sanitary System? Wasn't the Chief one of the later twin-motor Air-Way's? It seems unconscionable that someone could have thrown one out! Even at that time, the vacuum would have been about 50 years old. I didn't even know about Air-Way until one day about 10 or 12 years ago my father picked up two model 55's which had been gutted and repainted in beige with flowers on them. I guess somebody converted them to umbrella stands. I too must agree, it is one of the most interesting vacuums I have ever seen. If you find one today with an unbroken celluloid dial, you really got something there.
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No, the Chief was the straight-suction model. And no, I don't have it any more.
I moved to California from Maryland in 1980 and became somewhat of a gypsy for a couple of years. I traveled very light, and the last thing I had room or accommodation for was vacuum cleaners! I had packed up a lot of stuff, including all my vacuum cleaners and paraphernalia, including a portable workbench I had made with my own two little hands, and stored all that stuff in my parents' basement with dire warnings to them not to throw any of it out. I knew that I would eventually want it back.
I had a dozen or so other old sweepers down there -- including an all-original Kirby 505 & a 513, an all-original and complete, and now rather rare Kirby 562 (the first tan model, which had a unique off-white cord with darn-tan plugs), two model AF Electroluxes that a friend's mother gave me - both all original and one had the first AF power nozzle, and I don't remember what else now. Oh, an old GE upright, my uncle's beat-up tan Hoover Constellation ... an Electrolux AE in the box ... the roadsize-find Airway Chief ... oh dear, I can hardly bear to list it all.
Oh, OH, OHHHH!!! The tragedy of it all!!!!!
You see, some years later, some time in the early 1990s, I got a nice letter and photos from Mama and dad telling me all about the comprehensive house makeover they had had done, including cleaning up and converting the basement into another bedroom and a den ........
Uh-oh... I thought to myself....... what happened to all my STUFF???! Panicking, I made a frantic call home to ask what they had done with all my boxes that were stored down there in the utility room.
You guessed it.
Sure enough, they had tossed out all my stuff, thinking that it had sat down there for over 10 years so surely I did not want it any more. Besides, Daddy said, the cat had gotten into a lot of the boxes and "pee'd" in them, so most of what was down there was ruined anyway.
Nice.
No more Airway. No more 505. No more 513. No more 562. No more AE, AF, AF. And so on, and so on, and so on.......
Have you ever seen a grown man cry??!
I found out later that they did keep a couple of the sweepers that had been stuck in another area down there, and the portable wooden work bench.
In, what, 1994, 1995, somewhere around there, when we had the first official meeting of the reconstituted VCCC at Alex Tabor's house in Chicago, I made a side-trip to my parents' house. Billy Lipman and Roger Proehl met me there. (They both live fairly close to where my parents used to live.)
I gave Roger and Billy the few things that were still there, and believe you me it was not much. Dad had held on to the upright G.E. because Mama had thought it was "kinda neat" -- the battered Constellation (that he had been using to clean out the dog kennel) -- a mongrel Kirby -- and that's about it I think. Somehow, the really best stuff had gotten thrown out. The portable work bench went to Billy Lipman.
I moved to California from Maryland in 1980 and became somewhat of a gypsy for a couple of years. I traveled very light, and the last thing I had room or accommodation for was vacuum cleaners! I had packed up a lot of stuff, including all my vacuum cleaners and paraphernalia, including a portable workbench I had made with my own two little hands, and stored all that stuff in my parents' basement with dire warnings to them not to throw any of it out. I knew that I would eventually want it back.
I had a dozen or so other old sweepers down there -- including an all-original Kirby 505 & a 513, an all-original and complete, and now rather rare Kirby 562 (the first tan model, which had a unique off-white cord with darn-tan plugs), two model AF Electroluxes that a friend's mother gave me - both all original and one had the first AF power nozzle, and I don't remember what else now. Oh, an old GE upright, my uncle's beat-up tan Hoover Constellation ... an Electrolux AE in the box ... the roadsize-find Airway Chief ... oh dear, I can hardly bear to list it all.
Oh, OH, OHHHH!!! The tragedy of it all!!!!!
You see, some years later, some time in the early 1990s, I got a nice letter and photos from Mama and dad telling me all about the comprehensive house makeover they had had done, including cleaning up and converting the basement into another bedroom and a den ........
Uh-oh... I thought to myself....... what happened to all my STUFF???! Panicking, I made a frantic call home to ask what they had done with all my boxes that were stored down there in the utility room.
You guessed it.
Sure enough, they had tossed out all my stuff, thinking that it had sat down there for over 10 years so surely I did not want it any more. Besides, Daddy said, the cat had gotten into a lot of the boxes and "pee'd" in them, so most of what was down there was ruined anyway.
Nice.
No more Airway. No more 505. No more 513. No more 562. No more AE, AF, AF. And so on, and so on, and so on.......
Have you ever seen a grown man cry??!
I found out later that they did keep a couple of the sweepers that had been stuck in another area down there, and the portable wooden work bench.
In, what, 1994, 1995, somewhere around there, when we had the first official meeting of the reconstituted VCCC at Alex Tabor's house in Chicago, I made a side-trip to my parents' house. Billy Lipman and Roger Proehl met me there. (They both live fairly close to where my parents used to live.)
I gave Roger and Billy the few things that were still there, and believe you me it was not much. Dad had held on to the upright G.E. because Mama had thought it was "kinda neat" -- the battered Constellation (that he had been using to clean out the dog kennel) -- a mongrel Kirby -- and that's about it I think. Somehow, the really best stuff had gotten thrown out. The portable work bench went to Billy Lipman.
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Wow...that's awful, Charles!! I can't believe that happened!!
Thanks Debbie! That Magic-Aire has seen better days but it does still run. I am unable to take it apart for fear of ruining the dry-rotted gasket around the motor. I would like to oil it and get the proper latch...but then again; who else has a Magic-Aire?
BTW: Could I see everyone elses Air-Way uprights? That would be really neat to kind of scrap book these on here. They really are fantastic and neat looking machines! And quite historical, too! First to have the paper bag!!
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Thanks Debbie! That Magic-Aire has seen better days but it does still run. I am unable to take it apart for fear of ruining the dry-rotted gasket around the motor. I would like to oil it and get the proper latch...but then again; who else has a Magic-Aire?
BTW: Could I see everyone elses Air-Way uprights? That would be really neat to kind of scrap book these on here. They really are fantastic and neat looking machines! And quite historical, too! First to have the paper bag!!
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