Thrifting and Gifting in North Canton, Ohio

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Yes Tom and Alan. the Roll-Easy was a thunderclap shock to the system. Whodathunkit?

As my 3rd Roll-Easy I'll call it a spare...for now, til more parts come to ground in the future. It's seen a lot of use, is a little banged up and has interior rust beginning in the drum but, it does have the aluminum hose ends, which my version one does not - it came with chrome Swiveltop hose and are the ends I used with the turquoise Flo-Bee hose. Now all will be right as rain.

No secret here - what I picked up on the Farm from Debbie in those boxes is a complete version 2 Roll-Easy w wands & toolset in showroom condition, plus about 40 bags, two superb(swiveltop} woven hoses, two electric cords (one blue/green and one unwrapped turq.}...and...two late GE turquoise double action floor tools, so I have one for the 3rd R-1. In addition one of the floor tools has a copper clad elbow for version 2 Roll-Easys when it replaced the flipover floortool! Can one believe the Twingle just knew there was an under equipped Roll-Easy to be unearthed in North Canton?

Anyway, there is a huge storm cell moving across the midwest again and its due to hit the eastern shores of Michigan Monday early evening. Predictions are for serious thunder storms, high winds and a week of rain. No fun for driving when I could be safely home vacuumizing my last day off on Tuesday.

So Pete, I am making my scenic thrifting/flea marketing way to the ferry by sunset today, will call when I find a handy pay phone and come on by if it's ok. Can be home well before midnight or heck, why not... thrift my way across Sarnia & area on Tuesday. :-)
 
You have THREE Roll-Easys?

I know about the one your co-worker/friends got you but I have mentally misplaced number two. I am in such a state for the last year you would have to plug me into a light socket to get a remote twingle out of me. But seeing a Roll-Easy in any of my haunts would see me move quickly for sure. And with tools? Dave's fab luck again!
 
Why would you say that, Swingette? (Notwithstanding your tendency to say such things...)

Do you think I am any less sad than anyone else? Perhaps this "Photoshop Obituary" is MY way of mourning the loss.

Why do you always seem to glom onto (falsely) perceived negative dynamics of what other people say?

My "Revised Hoover Lettering" essay was meant as a Sad Commentary, not "rubbing salt in someone's wounds."

Don't take it so personally.
 
Dave...

Thanks for stopping by yesterday. It was a lot of fun doing some thrifting. You were a very lucky guy to go home with TWO Roll Easys! This just goes to show you that you just never know what can be found if you get out there and look! Thank you Dave too for dinner Sunday evening.

The plastic lawnmower is a funny story. Heather ran over Glenn's toy mower. He was devastated totally. I just do not know how she managed to miss that bright red and yellow toy in the green grass. Anyway, Dave and I found the exact same toy mower at a thrift store (the same one that had the Roll Easy) and it cost me a whole $4. Glenn is happily "mowing" the grass again now.

I had a blast playing with Dave's "VacUTronic". I will have to find one of these gizmoes for myself.

Thanks again Dave for stopping by to visit. Congrats on your finds.

--Tom
 
Tom.................yes....please do tell us how Heather missed seeing this toy....ESPECIALLY in the grass.....(doesn't she know she is suppose to be on the concrete???) LOL....I miss seeing you guys....you both are a lot of fun!!!!!
 
The Dave and his Subaru are once again headed eastward with instructions on where the local GoodWill is located wherein lurks a blue/white metal bodied Eureka I saw there yesterday and left for him to snag. As well hopefully still a Rainbow awaits further down the byway in the next little town
 
An astute person will notice and wonder why I would leave a metal Eureka and worser yet a Rainbow and not grab them myself!!!

Because I'm vacuum saturated is why. LOL
 
Home and Car unburdened - dinners heating up...

Just started raining but I did manage to get the traditional obligatory driveway Beauty Shot. But not the U.S.A stuff - that was hustled inside the house as the first drops began to spatter down. Later...

Here we see what got tossed in the car on the Canadian side only, and came out of the car first.

I did find the places, Pete. Left the Eureka behind. However...

Found a nice miniature Vornado Fan at Value Village for 3.99. Always wanted one but could never find a nice one. This one is perfect. Speed control dial on the back of the motor pod, no bent grill bars. I think it didn't sell because folks would plug it in and it didn't turn. That was only because the original plug had an internal wire separation. I pressed the cord into the plug head and of course, it ran. So I took it to the counter, showed them how it would not run and got it for a dollar.. Just put a replacement plug on it and its on the floor beside be silently whipping up a blasting breeze. Whee!

I guess we can all identify the rest of the stuff...

A GE floor polisher with the cord cut off from curbside trash in Pete's neighborhood. He told me about seeing it when I arrived yesterday so we drove around and I tossed it in. Thing is, I have this polisher but not with such a nice handle.

The usual ubiquitous Kenmore canister with taped up power hose I drove past on the St Clair River road from the ferry landing to Pete's house.

Pete gave me the Dial-a-matic and the Hoover Windtunnel. Missing its bagless dust jug it was destined for the trash. I took it to salvage the cord and tools and bitz. Nice hose material, too. Then I will trash it. But wait...it has double counter-rotating brushes. ??? wtf? I'm sitting here thinking I will get the double brush head running then graft it on to a more worthy bagged Hoover upright. Just for good cheap fun LOL

So, the Raindow D3 is quite nice with both wand sets, two hoses, one with the power cord for the power nozzle. Only the floor brush and the sprayer with it, tho. Both hoses have taped repairs at one end but that's easy to slice off and rescrew into the affected end. It was different enough from my d$ that I couldn't just leave it there in Petrolia.

Pete, I spent two hours taking the full tour of the Petrolia heritage site. You follow that road by the bridge back through the park and emerge in a large working oil firld. Theyhvae moved several ancient buildings back there and have a full working 1870s Oil pumping setup, with the shaker lines running from the power house out to 8 pumps around the property, that has huge great flywheels and belts as well as a working carpentry shop running off overhead pulleys and belts. very impressive place and only $5 gets you the full walking tour. Well, I was the only person there besides the very well informed lad, home from University, that conducts the tour. The buildings have been set out like a small village, with a church and a schoolhouse, all moved there 10 years ago. I'lll have to make a new thread all about my visit there. Highly recomended tourist stop. better than the displays at Oil City in north western Pennsylvania. And its a documented fact that Canada can rightfully claim the first successful well as well as the first gusher to be tapped in North America - by a six month lead. :-)

Up front, a selection of vacuum tools including the weirdly shaped SEARS white crevice tool, a turquoise Compact crevice tool to match the upholstery nozzle from Pete, and in front of that, a dark green/black two piece Bakelite Demother of unknown brand...the larger end has a small keyway like for a Compact. But the bore and opposite tapered end are too small for the standard wands like Compact, Airway or Electrolux.

Rainbow guy threw in the Westinghouse hand vac, as it has no cord nor belt access cap. I have this same model with w rotted bag and bristless brush so I am pleased to have this parts donor vacuum.

So, that's the end-of-trek Canadian side haul.

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