The Cadillac of Vacuum Cleaners

[bee-vac]

And here it is boys!

This vacuum has a very interesting story, I bought this off ebay many years ago, the seller said he was remodeling a house, and this vacuum was inside a wall! It may bring you some relief that a Royal roll brush and a Kirby belt works on these old clunkers. I love the look of this vacuum honestly, its bulky and has a crude look to it, as if they were experimenting with the idea of adding lights. The light housing doesn't seem furniture friendly AT ALL, and probably has dinged, scratched, AND gouged a great number of wooden legs in it's long life. I love it.

 

[bee-vac]

The elusive belt cap!

I hope this will be some help to you.

 

[rdwdcp]

Cool vacuum too

 

[madman]

Thanks for the pics BeeVac! Yes, they do help. I did come up with something though. I purchased an intake screen thing - or whatever it's called - from what's left of the Clements company. (Dealing with them left a really bad taste in my mouth, btw, what an ordeal.) It's meant for their blowers, but is very close. I did have to shave it down a bit to make it fit. It's just a chunk of black plastic, though. Perhaps in the future, I'll get one milled from a slab of aluminum.

And hey thanks for the Kirby belt tip. As for the light housing, yeah, probably. Yours is missing the rubber bumper around the nozzle. These did not have bumpers on the light housings. Their more expensive model did, though. I guess you had to pay extra for that lol. Also, yours is a ball bearing motor, mine is not.

Is yours a 2 speed? Or is that switch for the headlight?

Rdwdcp - thanks lol. I do like me some ponies.

 

[rdwdcp]

madman

same I see you have Rainbow dash on your icon. I like that pony.

 

[rdwdcp]

Do you like Rainbow Dash?

 

[madman]

Of course! I really like all of 'em. Celestia is best pony, though

 

[rdwdcp]

Do you like Dyson?

 

[madman]

Honestly, haven't had any experience with Dysons. Besides, I'm more of an antiques guy, rather than a vacuum guy.

 

[rdwdcp]

oh right

 

[rdwdcp]

also thanks for commenting on my thread called (Here is some pictures for you)


Ryan

 

[madman]

FINALLY

Got the bag done!

(Sorry about the pony-related thread drift lol)

After many months of badgering my T-shirt guy, finally went there today and he had it done. Got a slice of pizza from him, too. He had made the screen originally well over a month ago, and when I went there and we started test printing, we found the screen had a defect. So I had to wait for him to make another one. Went there today expecting to have to cajole him into printing it, and he had already done it on his lonesome! Guy is real busy these days, only printing logos on face masks, go figure. Anyhow here it is. Honestly, the position of the logo is not perfect, though I also gave him my first-attempt black bag to practice on, and good thing too, cuz he screwed it up lol. I can't complain, really, he insisted I don't pay him for this print (though to be fair, I've helped him with many things already). Still, I think it turned out alright. Maybe whenever I get my sewing machine back (lent it to a friend), I'll make a couple more bags for the heck of it.

I constructed the bag exactly as the original, including the little dirt pocket (A Clements patent, btw :3 ) which I sort of upgraded by folding over the cut edges of the pocket fabric so that they don't unravel after use. The bead for the bag clip I made by sewing over an old flat shoe lace - in my first-attempt bag, I used a folded-over strip of fabric that was too hard to handle and wound up being too thick. The logo I made by putting the original bag on a flatbed scanner and recreating it in Photoshop, to measurements physically taken from the bag. Admittedly, not 100% perfect as I had mistakenly given the A's a little slant on the left side thing sticking out. I had designed the logo before I had bought the handheld vac with the pristine bag, so I couldn't tell. Looks better this way, anyway.

Original bag on the left, pristine handheld bag on the right for comparison. The fabric is obviously a much darker brown than it should be, but is the closest in terms of both color and weave that I can find. It's a bit too lightweight though. But damn, that logo looks good.

 

[kirbyklekter]

What's not to like?

This is a great thread, and your first. The videos were as good as I've ever seen, the work done was top notch,and that bag,can we talk? Lucky are the people whose cars you work on, so for what it's worth, I'm really impressed, Kudos MadMan!

 

[rivstg1]

great results!!! love it

 

[lesinutah]

Nice

Nice job on the bags. Impressive with the wheels. I reread the thread again.
Cool thread.
Les