The new vacs...

[orecklover]

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<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">Dear VacuumLanders,</span></span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">On August 24th, 2014 something happened that</span></span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">changed the Oreck Restoration Facility</span>.As I</span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">am the CEO of the facility,I decide what</span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">machines come in and out. Now, I have been</span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">restricting all machines to Orecks. The last</span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">machine that came in that wasn't an Oreck was</span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">a Eureka Boss Ultra and I got that many weeks</span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">ago.Yesterday which was Sunday, August 25th </span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">2014 I went to  garage sale with my Grandmother.</span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">Before I went to her house, I scowered many </span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">websites and the only one I got a result on was</span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">CraigsList. I found an ad that said: </span></p>
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<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">Many items for sale!!! Lawn Mowers, Lead blowers, </span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">grills, vacuums, a truck load of stuff all for </span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">blow out prices!! </span></p>
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<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">I knew that I had to stop at this yard sale. My</span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">grandma and I both love garage sales and estate </span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">sales so I knew that there was no convincing to </span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">go there. When my parents dropped me off at my</span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">grandmas I ran up to her and told her about the </span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">garage sale. She was just excited as I was to go.</span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">After a while me and my grandma set off to go to</span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">the garage sale which was just up the road from </span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">where my grandma lives. When my grandma parked </span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">her 2013 Cadillac SRX I jumped out and "casually"</span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">walked up to the sale. I noticed that there was a </span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">great amount of vacuums for sale. A Kenmore Magic </span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">Blue, Eureka SmartVac, Oreck BusterB, Bissell </span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">Steamer Cleaner, Filter Queen Majestic, Oreck </span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">Restaurant Edition and some more little vacs. </span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">I meandered around looking and soon I got eager so</span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">I asked the man how much the Oreck Restaurant Edition.</span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">The man was very rude about it. I asked if he would </span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">take $20 for it. He claimed it was "brand new" which</span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">it wasn't. He wanted around $200 for it.</span><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">The Filter</span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">Queen I wasn't interested in</span> <span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">but I did leave with</span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">something(s). First I found an iRobot Roomba then I</span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">found a vintage Hoover Convertible which wasn't for</span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">sale. Then a plot twist occured. It turns out the grumpy</span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">man's</span> <span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">son was a vacuum collector just like me! I was very</span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">lucky and he said that he was going to give me the </span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">Hoover for free! I was so happy. As I was still browsing</span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">I watched as the grumpy man's son came from inside house</span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">carrying what seemed to be some more vacuums. He put them</span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">down and walked over to me and said,</span></p>
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<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">"I know you liked vacuums so I remembered that I left these</span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">down in the basement. You would probably appreciate more </span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">than I do" </span></p>
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<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">I was so shocked! One of the vacuums was a Electrolux </span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">Upright, the other one was a Eureka StickVac, the last one</span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">was the Hoover Convertible which I mentioned earlier. Also </span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">I got a....</span></p>
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<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">I left the garage sale with five vacuums in all. The Roomba,</span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">Hoover Convertible, Electrolux Upright, Eureka StickVac and</span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">wait... Did I forget to mention that by the Kenmore Magic </span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">Blue there was a mystery Kenmore? Ah yes the Mystery Kenmore.</span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">I know nothing about it. I know DesertTortoise would like it. </span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">DT, if you want to see more pictures of it let me know. The </span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">Kenmore is very different looking. I've never seen anything</span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">like it. Let me know if you guys know anything about it. Not</span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">to mention that I got the Kenmore for free! I only payed $5 </span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">for everything because of the Roomba. </span></p>
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<div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">As I am the CEO of the East Coast Oreck Restoration Facility,</span>
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<div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">I would like to give a huge thanks to the Oreck Restoration</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">Facility's sister facility, The Kirby Avenue Prehistoric </span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">Technology Preservation Labs for the idea of formatting</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">my post like this  </span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">I may not go into extream detail of each machine but if</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">you want me to let me know. Also any info about any of </span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">these vacuums is appreciated. The Roomba needs a charger</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">any ideas on where I can find one?</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">Let me know if you guys want any more pictures of these </span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">machines, even if you don't want any more pictures, i'll</span></span></div>
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[DesertTortoise]

Oooh, that is a mystery Kenmore! Most interesting indeed. The Desert Tortoise is excited.

 

[sbakerde]

I think that kenmore was made by Sanyo

If I'm remembering correctly I that that kenmore was a Sanyo produced machine. I had one years ago I got at a yard sale. It was a nice little vacuum. And good auction for the size. It's a bagless unit with a washable filter.

 

[super-sweeper]

You bet your bwerk it's Sanyo!

I have that model in light blue, never seen that color before! Then again, this is the only 1.6 I've seen since I brought mine!


 


Who authorized this formatting? I'll speak to Mrs.Omega at the front desk about this, she can pull the file. Luckily you mentioned us at the bottom, otherwise it would've been lawsuits EVERYWHERE. Not pretty! 

 


Are you and this collector going to have mini-meets and stuff? I've always dreamed of finding another collector in my area, I found one, emailed him, and never heard back! Oh well, someday! 

 

[eurekaprince]

The Kenmore version of that compact Sanyo canister vac was given a very cute name: Sears called it the "Let's Clean" which reminds me of the funny usage of English one sees in Japan:



http://www.engrish.com/wp-content/uploads//2014/08/pleasure-is-non-stop.jpg

 

[fantomfan]

Wow! That was very generous of them!

Yea, I always run-into people that seem greedy, and they don't know what they are talking about. Somebody wanted $100 for a dirty Kirby Heritage 2 Legend, without the attachments! 2 years ago, somebody on CL wanted $200 for a Fantom Cyclone XT! Somebody else wants $80 each for "refurbished" Fantom Twisters. He literally says in the ad "these are the original fantoms folks!". Somebody please help this guy. Somebody else wants $2000 for a used Kirby Sentria 2. Oh, buy the way, don't haggle. These people are FIRM on the price. They must have REALLY been jipped when they first bought that. Let's not forget the cheat in my area that will remain nameless. He is selling vacuum cleaners for "parts", that have been sitting outside in the rain. Picture this, a horrible looking Air-Way for $180. I almost laughed at that one. I inquired about a Hoover PowerDrive that looked OK, at $40. I asked him if it worked, and guess what? He goes on a rant, stating if I send him $15 through PayPal, i'll get a "full evaluation" of the item. He is a cheat, and I have met him before. I am 100% sure he does the trash-day rounds for his junk. He also wants $200 for a pitiful Hoover mo. 28. Needless to say, I am never talking to him again, and I found another PowerDrive for $25, one month later.

On another subject, nice finds, I really like the Electrolux. I almost bought one, but it was too far away to get it.

 

[DesertTortoise]

Would love to see some more images of the little Kenmore 1.6 if you wouldn't mind. Interesting little vacuum. It will be a good companion for the Little Gray Mouse, my other oddball Kenmore/Ryobi/Singer thingamabob. Orphans need love too.

Ooooh, the Filter Fairy was by today with filters for the Little Gray Mouse.

 

[DesertTortoise]

Is this it?

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a251/farrini/2-18-11016.jpg

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Interesting. The tools go in a plastic bucket that latches to the bottom of the vac, and you carry the whole thing by the carry handle on the vacuum. Did the bucket and tools come with the vac? Ah, I see, get the vac then spend an indecent amount of time hunting down the bottom half and the tools, lol. I see how this works now .......

Man you got me roped, heh, heh, heh.

 

[orecklover]

DT,

I will be sure to post more pictures of the Kenmore when I get back to my house

 

[kirbylux77]

Tyler

Great find there on the Electrolux upright! That one looks to be in really nice shape, & they are starting to become hard to find nowadays. Enjoy all your new vacuums.

Rob

 

[DesertTortoise]

I was thinking the same thing Kirbylux77. I don't know the rarity but that example is indeed good looking. Quite a nice haul. Well bought.