functionalart
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- Jul 30, 2011
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Hi all,
Have never posted here before--just have been an observer for a very long time and decided to finally join. Someone once said that a collection starts after you've 3 or more of a thing...and after acquiring a Kirby Model 562 this week, I now have 4 of these fantastic vacs. Thought I'd post some photos of a more uncommon cloth bag fitted to my Omega 1-CB. Thanks to this site, I'm aware of the other 3 styles and would be interested in expert input on what this one is. It has NO Omega "patch", nor any sign that one was ever there. It looks like a bag I've seen in the B&W photos from the Omega instruciton book, but I've not seen it shown within this site anywhere, or even mentioned here. It's not important for me to get information on it, but I'm geeky that way and it'd just be cool to know.
This Omega's just come out of 36+ years of storage. It's quite the timecapsule. Purchased by my grandfather in 1974. Hated by my grandmother and relegated to the back of a closet since VERY early in life. If it's been used a total of two weeks' time over these decades, I'd be surprised. Nothing's ever been done to it. Never been serviced. Original factory polish job. It's just in gorgeous condition. I've actually given it it's first real use during this past month and plan on keeping it forever. It's as close to a new vac from the era as you could hope for....just brilliant.
I've inserted the URL to the photos of this bag if anyone's interested. Later on, I'll put up some shots of the entire machine along with my Dual Sanitronic 80, Sanitronic 562 and Heritage II.
http://vacuumland.org/cgi-bin/00ShowCollectionGETD.cgi?dir=/COLLECTIONS/FUNCTIONALART/
Have never posted here before--just have been an observer for a very long time and decided to finally join. Someone once said that a collection starts after you've 3 or more of a thing...and after acquiring a Kirby Model 562 this week, I now have 4 of these fantastic vacs. Thought I'd post some photos of a more uncommon cloth bag fitted to my Omega 1-CB. Thanks to this site, I'm aware of the other 3 styles and would be interested in expert input on what this one is. It has NO Omega "patch", nor any sign that one was ever there. It looks like a bag I've seen in the B&W photos from the Omega instruciton book, but I've not seen it shown within this site anywhere, or even mentioned here. It's not important for me to get information on it, but I'm geeky that way and it'd just be cool to know.
This Omega's just come out of 36+ years of storage. It's quite the timecapsule. Purchased by my grandfather in 1974. Hated by my grandmother and relegated to the back of a closet since VERY early in life. If it's been used a total of two weeks' time over these decades, I'd be surprised. Nothing's ever been done to it. Never been serviced. Original factory polish job. It's just in gorgeous condition. I've actually given it it's first real use during this past month and plan on keeping it forever. It's as close to a new vac from the era as you could hope for....just brilliant.
I've inserted the URL to the photos of this bag if anyone's interested. Later on, I'll put up some shots of the entire machine along with my Dual Sanitronic 80, Sanitronic 562 and Heritage II.
http://vacuumland.org/cgi-bin/00ShowCollectionGETD.cgi?dir=/COLLECTIONS/FUNCTIONALART/
