collector2
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The Firestone
The September Chronicles of Sarnia
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collector2
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And for good measure - a friends Kingston accessory kit
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aeoliandave
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Yeah Chad. I've heard these extra long sofas referred to as davenports, too. There's also the chunkier overstuffed Chesterfield size and a couch is just a couch, I suppose. Anyway, it was in perfect condition and I luv the grandeur of the fat carved posts under the arms. It is so spectacularly ugly - in an appealing way - it could only be vacuumed I think, with a Green flowered Sunbeam Challenger.
Honest to Gawd, it is sooo long, low and comfortable I've half a mind to ask Pete to pick it up for me in the truck and I'll haul it home on the boat trailer. LOL Seriously!
My current 'davenport' is almost as long but dreadfully tattered under a canvas coverup from 20 years of hard knocks and cat scratchpost duty. But I've not seen anything as long & low to replace it with. For this one I would cheerfully pitch the old one to the dump.
I like the massager unit and it is very effective at numbing and relaxing muscles. Easy to connect but you'd have to develop an enjoyment of the accompanying whoosh of the vacuum and the loud-ish frapping low drone of the Diaphone valve.
My Mom and Gramma had the FQ Hairdryers and used them regularly. For Sunday Church Mom would set my sister's hair up in rag knots and shove her under the FQ hood for 30 minutes. Little girls didn't get Perms back then in our neighborhood - the 1960s.
Firestone/Kingston/Monitor - going to start a new thread on these.
Chad, Pete and I have discussed how we should have a Vac Meet for our Michigan/SW Ontario area some day. Ann Arbor is so close to Port Huron/Sarnia. It'll have to wait until Nov/Dec/Jan/Feb with my work schedule. tho'.
Honest to Gawd, it is sooo long, low and comfortable I've half a mind to ask Pete to pick it up for me in the truck and I'll haul it home on the boat trailer. LOL Seriously!
My current 'davenport' is almost as long but dreadfully tattered under a canvas coverup from 20 years of hard knocks and cat scratchpost duty. But I've not seen anything as long & low to replace it with. For this one I would cheerfully pitch the old one to the dump.
I like the massager unit and it is very effective at numbing and relaxing muscles. Easy to connect but you'd have to develop an enjoyment of the accompanying whoosh of the vacuum and the loud-ish frapping low drone of the Diaphone valve.
My Mom and Gramma had the FQ Hairdryers and used them regularly. For Sunday Church Mom would set my sister's hair up in rag knots and shove her under the FQ hood for 30 minutes. Little girls didn't get Perms back then in our neighborhood - the 1960s.
Firestone/Kingston/Monitor - going to start a new thread on these.
Chad, Pete and I have discussed how we should have a Vac Meet for our Michigan/SW Ontario area some day. Ann Arbor is so close to Port Huron/Sarnia. It'll have to wait until Nov/Dec/Jan/Feb with my work schedule. tho'.
aeoliandave
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Yes, yes, yes, Doug.
Monitor has the same swiveling floor nozzle and dusting brush as your Kingston canister.
Monitor has the same swiveling floor nozzle and dusting brush as your Kingston canister.
aeoliandave
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For good measure, front cover of the Singer model 774 slant needle.
aeoliandave
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Copyright 1975. the back cover.
collector2
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Hey Dave:
Thanks - that finally gives me a date for the Singer E12AC
Doug
Thanks - that finally gives me a date for the Singer E12AC
Doug
aeoliandave
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The Blue Royal is re-united with the Prodigal Tools
I had the blue bumpered tool, narrower 'wall' brush and crevicetool brush. Added a generic tapered rubber dusting brush that fits in the end of the wand. Thanks, Pete. The flash kinda washed out ther color of the floor bumper trim, but if you know Roiyal you know the lovely rich blue it is.
the Red & Blue cousins are side by side now hoses entwined...perhaps they'll go bump in the night and produce little green Prince and Princess handvacs...
I had the blue bumpered tool, narrower 'wall' brush and crevicetool brush. Added a generic tapered rubber dusting brush that fits in the end of the wand. Thanks, Pete. The flash kinda washed out ther color of the floor bumper trim, but if you know Roiyal you know the lovely rich blue it is.
the Red & Blue cousins are side by side now hoses entwined...perhaps they'll go bump in the night and produce little green Prince and Princess handvacs...
aeoliandave
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Say Pete, remember that long brown vinyl weave hose you foun
Well, now it belongs to the Filter Queen Model 200A. I have the Model 200 manual. Look at the cloth weave hose the 200 came with!
Well, now it belongs to the Filter Queen Model 200A. I have the Model 200 manual. Look at the cloth weave hose the 200 came with!
aeoliandave
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Oh My Gawd, says I, another one of those Meant to Be revelations. Couldn't be more perfecter...
aeoliandave
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See how long it is beside a regular FQ hose. And it's airtight! Whee...
aeoliandave
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Another Model 200 Manual page showing the hose and other tools, all with long necks. Unique button latch connections slide into a long slot on the necks. Note the floor nozzle doesn't yet have a rubber bumper. Unlike later styled Model 30s and 700s etc, only one curved wand, the upper section is straight. It is the hose pipe end that is curved and connected to the tools or wands.
And gol'darnit, if I don't have the correct long neck slotted Crevice Tool for this Filter Queen. Many many thanks, dear Pete. Another vacuum comes together like globs of mercury...
And gol'darnit, if I don't have the correct long neck slotted Crevice Tool for this Filter Queen. Many many thanks, dear Pete. Another vacuum comes together like globs of mercury...
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OH MY WORD.....
I just peed a little in me panties.
Singer U-59 in the owners manual advertisement(my baby)!!!AND in color no less!!!
Yeah Rusty Andres and I were talking about having a mitten meet also. It has been tossed around, nothing serious as of yet. Would be great to meet more people. I have of course met Pete. Sarnia not that far if you take good ol' I-75.
That sounds like a good idea in the winter. Just not when it's about to dump upon us a foot or more of the fluffy powder. I mean no one wants to drive on that stuff!! LOL
Glad to see that someone remembers them being called Davenports as well. We just got rid of ours off our three seasons room up at the parents house. Ours was dark green and gold tapestry effect upholstery. It was awful, but in the summer I could lounge out ther all day with my iced tea, Camel Lights and a good book and waste the entire day. For me being 6 ft. + there was no better way to relax completly stretched out thatn laying on that thing... SADNESS;-(
It was replaced with a wicker love seat thing. My mom has hit her "bout to be 70" stride. She wants all her furniture out there to match, and it all to be white painted wicker. It's like being on the set of the Golden Girls. NOT that that would be a bad thing BTW!!!
Sorry
Chad
OH MY WORD.....
I just peed a little in me panties.
Singer U-59 in the owners manual advertisement(my baby)!!!AND in color no less!!!
Yeah Rusty Andres and I were talking about having a mitten meet also. It has been tossed around, nothing serious as of yet. Would be great to meet more people. I have of course met Pete. Sarnia not that far if you take good ol' I-75.
That sounds like a good idea in the winter. Just not when it's about to dump upon us a foot or more of the fluffy powder. I mean no one wants to drive on that stuff!! LOL
Glad to see that someone remembers them being called Davenports as well. We just got rid of ours off our three seasons room up at the parents house. Ours was dark green and gold tapestry effect upholstery. It was awful, but in the summer I could lounge out ther all day with my iced tea, Camel Lights and a good book and waste the entire day. For me being 6 ft. + there was no better way to relax completly stretched out thatn laying on that thing... SADNESS;-(
It was replaced with a wicker love seat thing. My mom has hit her "bout to be 70" stride. She wants all her furniture out there to match, and it all to be white painted wicker. It's like being on the set of the Golden Girls. NOT that that would be a bad thing BTW!!!
Sorry
Chad
that is very similar to grandma's Davenport it is maybe a little longer and has a lower back. It is in a chestnut brown background with a brown and orange floral print, it was made by Century Furniture and she has two matching side chairs. Very comfortable except that after almost 35 years it is starting to sag some
My mom had the hair dryer attachment for her Filter Queen but I don't remember ever seeing her use it. Instead she had a similiar looking bonnet and tube which connected to a dryer that sort of looked like what we know as todays blow dryer. It was all chrome, about 10-12 inches in height, maybe made by Sunbeam, but I'm not sure.
Gary
Gary
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One of the early hand vacuums from the late 1920s or early 1930s, either a Eureka or Kenmore, I don't recall which now, had what was probably the most successful hair dryer attachment for a vacuum cleaner -- successful because it contained a heating element in it.
It was not a hair drying bonnet or helmet but rather a hand-held blow-dryer. The way it worked, as best I recall, was that a heating element was affixed to the blower end of the machine, then a short electrical cord leading from it was plugged into the side of the vacuum cleaner motor. Then, a short flexible hose, 3 ft. or so long, with a hand-held 'pistol' sort of nozzle on the business end, was connected to the heating element.
The details on this are quite fuzzy now as I've never actually seen one, only an illustration of it. But the thing that sticks out about it is the fact that it did have a heating element in it rather than just relying on the mild warmth that comes from the vacuum cleaner motor.
The 1920s Air-Way chief also had a hair-dryer bonnet that, if I recall correctly, was very similar to the Filter Queen setup. The instruction booklet suggested that the user place the motor "near a fireplace" so as to introduce heat into the air stream! Can you imagine?!
It was not a hair drying bonnet or helmet but rather a hand-held blow-dryer. The way it worked, as best I recall, was that a heating element was affixed to the blower end of the machine, then a short electrical cord leading from it was plugged into the side of the vacuum cleaner motor. Then, a short flexible hose, 3 ft. or so long, with a hand-held 'pistol' sort of nozzle on the business end, was connected to the heating element.
The details on this are quite fuzzy now as I've never actually seen one, only an illustration of it. But the thing that sticks out about it is the fact that it did have a heating element in it rather than just relying on the mild warmth that comes from the vacuum cleaner motor.
The 1920s Air-Way chief also had a hair-dryer bonnet that, if I recall correctly, was very similar to the Filter Queen setup. The instruction booklet suggested that the user place the motor "near a fireplace" so as to introduce heat into the air stream! Can you imagine?!
One of the ads that shows up on the POD is a hand vacuum with a dryer attatchment. I think it's a Eureka.
