marks_here
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Too late..hehehaha
The latest addition to my toilet collection.
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super-sweeper
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Well Mark, here's what's going to happen: I'M taking YOUR credit-card down to the Kirby dealership, and I'm leaving YOU behind to clean up your mess! I'll be home by 8, have fun!
I bought a GE cobra head light from a yard sale-It is 150W HP sodium-the big reason I can't run it is the ballast primary is 480V so I need a step up transformer.Rescued one of our workplace lights(Westinghouse) from the dumpster-it was 400W mercury-ballast was blown.Put in a 400W HP sodium-now OK.I can use MH conversion bulbs in it-whiter light.The toilets lit by your light look pretty good!Would be neat to hear some "Potty History" did these come from old homes and buildings about to be demolished-or renovations?
I thought of you this morning
As I was backing out of my driveway to go to school, I noticed that my neighbors (the Wangs) have a baby blue Kohler toilet out in the front of the house. No doubt, they are replacing things in the bathroom one at a time. I believe that bathroom was installed in 1960. It looks to be ok, but, I don't want to get 'that personal'.
As I was backing out of my driveway to go to school, I noticed that my neighbors (the Wangs) have a baby blue Kohler toilet out in the front of the house. No doubt, they are replacing things in the bathroom one at a time. I believe that bathroom was installed in 1960. It looks to be ok, but, I don't want to get 'that personal'.
rugsucker
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vintage bathroom
Mixed in with more vacuum items on my EBay (leisurelady65) this week are 3 MCM bath brochures including the Case wall hung toilet with concealed supply pipe.A look at these will show why some of these are truly collectable.But if you want the whole set get ready to find 45 colors AND black & white!A 1968 small Sears bath catalog was overlooked and will show up next week.
Mixed in with more vacuum items on my EBay (leisurelady65) this week are 3 MCM bath brochures including the Case wall hung toilet with concealed supply pipe.A look at these will show why some of these are truly collectable.But if you want the whole set get ready to find 45 colors AND black & white!A 1968 small Sears bath catalog was overlooked and will show up next week.
rugsucker
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60s bathrooms
The small Sears bath catalog is on and as it includes decor as well as fixtures you can see what a strange time that was.
The small Sears bath catalog is on and as it includes decor as well as fixtures you can see what a strange time that was.
Got a new toilet
I got a 1965 Kohler Bolton today for $25.00. Compared to my Wellworth, it's big! It has the original mechancal linkage style handle.
Gusherb, if you're still interested, I will get the videos of the Compact up eventually. Youtube has been acting weird on my phone, it won't upload any video of my Compact. I have no clue why.
I got a 1965 Kohler Bolton today for $25.00. Compared to my Wellworth, it's big! It has the original mechancal linkage style handle.
Gusherb, if you're still interested, I will get the videos of the Compact up eventually. Youtube has been acting weird on my phone, it won't upload any video of my Compact. I have no clue why.
gusherb
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Still interested!
And I'm jealous of your Bolton find!!
My dream toilet find is an elongated Standard or Kohler from the 60s like a Cadet or Bolton, it would be my permanent DD. You'd think with me living in such a large metropolitan area that it'd be easy to find these things especially on Craigslist but apparently not so, or I'm just not looking in the right places.
And I'm jealous of your Bolton find!!
My dream toilet find is an elongated Standard or Kohler from the 60s like a Cadet or Bolton, it would be my permanent DD. You'd think with me living in such a large metropolitan area that it'd be easy to find these things especially on Craigslist but apparently not so, or I'm just not looking in the right places.
There was a second Bolton at the Restore, but it was missing the original handle. Maybe, if you're up for it, I could ship it to you somehow. I uploaded a video of my Wellworth flushing old BBQ sauce in response to your Wellworth vids! Maybe we can have "Wellworth Wars" on YT - videos of flushing stuff down our Wellworths.
gusherb
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I looked for the video of your Wellworth flushing BBQ sauce and couldn't find it! And I think the "Wellworth wars" have already started hehehehe.
gusherb
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I sent you an email about it, but IDK if the email in your profile is correct or not, is that supposed to be @gmail? Or is "@mail" correct?
I rebuilt my Cadet Compact...
With all brand new Coast parts. In my opinion, Coast makes the best quality toilet repair available. And, the parts are proudly made in USA! I tried three times to get a video of the Cadet Compact up, but YT just kept saying it was unable to upload. I guess I'll have to get my real camera.
With all brand new Coast parts. In my opinion, Coast makes the best quality toilet repair available. And, the parts are proudly made in USA! I tried three times to get a video of the Cadet Compact up, but YT just kept saying it was unable to upload. I guess I'll have to get my real camera.
smow69
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In the words of sophia patrilo
Its an old ladys dream come true a toilet in front of the tv. you never have to miss a program . very cool collection I would have never thought of it. My grandma use to have a two bathroom house one had pink the other blue. cool yellow color.on your new one.
Its an old ladys dream come true a toilet in front of the tv. you never have to miss a program . very cool collection I would have never thought of it. My grandma use to have a two bathroom house one had pink the other blue. cool yellow color.on your new one.
I got a 1951 Standard Compact today for $20.00. At first, I thought it was a first generation Cadet (one of my dream toilets) but alas, it's just another Compact. It was super ultra filthy disgusting when I brought it home. It's missing the original tank.
beekeyknee
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God forbid she'd get down on the floor and clean that toilet the right way.
Very old toilet
Hi, I just joined this group.
I do not collect toilets, but all my life I have had a fascination with them. I have a memory of one that scared me when I was in first grade, and wonder if any of you toilet guru's might know what it might have been.
My mother took me with her to her hair dresser, in an older city, just outside of Mystic, Connecticut, back in the very early 1960's. The hairdressers was located in an old brick building, maybe three stories tall. Anyhow, while there, I needed to pee, one of the ladies there directed me to the restroom. The toilet was a rather tall white bowl with a tank up on the wall. I opened the black lid and looked down into the bowl and it scared the hell out of me, being just a little kid! The inside of the bowl had black mineral buildup, especially in and around the bowl-drain. It was that bowl drain that scared me. It went STRAIGHT DOWN into blackness, there was no U-bend in the china bowl. I had to have my mom accompany me back into the restroom and stand next to me while I peed. Then I flushed it and watched the water rush down that creepy black drain.
OK, to my thinking today, maybe the U-bend might have been in the sewer pipe just under the bowl-flange? There has to be a U-bend somewhere to prevent sewer-gas from entering the room, I would think. Anyhow, I have looked all over the internet for a similar toilet, but with zero luck. Do any of you toilet guru's have any idea about this?
I have some friends in Pennsylvania and they still have toilets with 5 gallon tanks, as do many businesses. I love these old toilets. I have replaced toilets in the past, in my place and my parent's. The one thing that still creeps me out to this day, is the open 4" sewer in the floor when you pull the bowl off. You can hear noises coming from it, from rushing water from other drains, to creepy gurgling, from the street...Are any of you others creeped out by drains, or looking down old wells, or stuff like that?
Hi, I just joined this group.
I do not collect toilets, but all my life I have had a fascination with them. I have a memory of one that scared me when I was in first grade, and wonder if any of you toilet guru's might know what it might have been.
My mother took me with her to her hair dresser, in an older city, just outside of Mystic, Connecticut, back in the very early 1960's. The hairdressers was located in an old brick building, maybe three stories tall. Anyhow, while there, I needed to pee, one of the ladies there directed me to the restroom. The toilet was a rather tall white bowl with a tank up on the wall. I opened the black lid and looked down into the bowl and it scared the hell out of me, being just a little kid! The inside of the bowl had black mineral buildup, especially in and around the bowl-drain. It was that bowl drain that scared me. It went STRAIGHT DOWN into blackness, there was no U-bend in the china bowl. I had to have my mom accompany me back into the restroom and stand next to me while I peed. Then I flushed it and watched the water rush down that creepy black drain.
OK, to my thinking today, maybe the U-bend might have been in the sewer pipe just under the bowl-flange? There has to be a U-bend somewhere to prevent sewer-gas from entering the room, I would think. Anyhow, I have looked all over the internet for a similar toilet, but with zero luck. Do any of you toilet guru's have any idea about this?
I have some friends in Pennsylvania and they still have toilets with 5 gallon tanks, as do many businesses. I love these old toilets. I have replaced toilets in the past, in my place and my parent's. The one thing that still creeps me out to this day, is the open 4" sewer in the floor when you pull the bowl off. You can hear noises coming from it, from rushing water from other drains, to creepy gurgling, from the street...Are any of you others creeped out by drains, or looking down old wells, or stuff like that?
hm,
"just pour, swish, and flush".......
I still have the 5 gallon toilest here. I keep them white with Clorox bleach, and Bon Ami.
Never a problem.
"just pour, swish, and flush".......
I still have the 5 gallon toilest here. I keep them white with Clorox bleach, and Bon Ami.
Never a problem.
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