Vintage Bojack Vacuum Cleaner Bags

[aeoliandave]

Take a seat...oh, you already are sitting. Well, as usual, I'll take my time, spinning yarns, getting around to my title's subject...

So, the sunny day did not dawn and it was overcast most of the day. Cancelled the boat trip and worked on a special project that's been on the back burner for almost 3 years.

Then I went to Zellers for the Monday Senior Discount for lunch & stuff. You only have to be 55 to get the Senior's discount. My lunch today - Fish & Chips with a lemon wedge, coleslaw, gravy and a tall glass of real lemonade - $5.79 before tax. That's 3 pieces of battered mystery fish - I ate one already. On a Fish shaped plate, no less! yummy and fun.

 

[aeoliandave]

My special project that took 3.5 hours this morning? You know I love my 1998 Subaru GT Ltd wagon and keep it in as nice condition as humanely possible, doing most of my own maintenance. With all this talk about clunkers and my decision to next purchase a lease return 2006/7 Subaru GT 2.5i turbo there is one major flaw I've been meaning to attend to...for 3 years now.

Back when I first got this car after a year or two I returned one day from the Mall to find someone had backed in to my rear end with something sharp and pointy (stop that!) and somehow pierced the lightbar lense that runs across the tailgate between the main rear lights. I covered the hole with clear packing tape patch which gets renewed every autumn, to keep the moisture out.
Fast forward 1 year. When I did grievous damage to my rear passenger door while helping a friend move I backed into a fire hydrant with the door open, putting a clever hand sized fold-in on the rear edge but more seriously, popped the door skin enough so the rear window wouldn't seal properly. Fixed that by clamping the door skins in a padded C clamp and pressed the structure back in alignment - window seal restored.

At the same time I had my body shop order me in a used salvaged rear tailgate lens to replace the broken one, someday.

Now I know what delayed that project - The wiper motor must be removed to access 2 of 8 nuts holding the lens in place. The nut on the outside glass side was frozen and I had basically rounded off the nut trying to get it off that first time.

Today I sourced a metric socket that would fit the nut after I dremel-tooled the nut back to a hexagonal shape, dowsed it liberally in anti-seize and levered the dang thing free. Whew.

 

[aeoliandave]

Old lightbar on top, new one below.

 

[aeoliandave]

ready to install with dangling wiper motor and all sorts of disconnected linkages for the power locks and the spray nozzle.

 

[aeoliandave]

New lightbar bolted in place on fresh gaskets, all connections restored.

 

[aeoliandave]

New lightbar good as new.

Better than new, actually. I made a few modifications...

 

[aeoliandave]

It has always bothered me that with an all-the-way-across red lens light bar that it doesn't light up all the way across.

Without going into boring tedious detail of how I did it, I installed two 12" red 14volt cold cathode computer case lamps in the center section of the lightbar in a mildly curved space only 3/4" wide behind the SUBARU letters. Neatly spliced the transformers into the wiring harness disconnects. These are the same computer case lights I use in blue under my dashboard and rear seats to illuminate the floor in an all black interior at night. You know, when you drop something while driving and can't find it?

I also use the white version of these 12" cold cathode lamps in my roll scanner to shine through the paper perforations on to the Contact Image Sensor.

I have a pair of green ones inside my mainframe's window 'cause it looks so Steven King creepy and makes me smile.

But Red ones are very hard to find anymore. i had a pair set aside for exactly this application. I've been using these lights in the car for over 5 years so obviously freezing or hellish temperatures don't affect them.

So now, when I turn to the headlight setting, the whole rear end of my Subaru looks like no other Subaru on the hiway.

It's just purty.

 

[aeoliandave]

SUBARU

looks so much more like a defused red glow in darkness at a distance.

Now, about those bojack vacuum bags...

 

[aeoliandave]

After Lunch at Zellers I wandered over to the Sally Ann and fell upon this unopened package of vacuum bags for the Hoover Convertible. 59 cents.

I just love the photograph of the lady's stylish home and her hiphuggers, turtleneck and head scarf.

 

[aeoliandave]

Then I stopped by Goodwill and found these. 4 packages of 4, unopened. Also 59 cents each.

Here we have a 'model' of dubious style and posture. Gawd, a miniskirt in rough polyester upholstery tweed. ouch, she's clashing with the carpet. This horsey gal really should have left her bra on, methinks. Don'tcha just wanna pull her shoulders back and tell her to stand up straight for the camera?

But at least she has the good sense to have both an upright and a canister for her housekeeping chores...

That was my day...other than grocery shopping, renewing prescriptions, laundry, vacuuming out the car, snoozing with the cats and making a fine dinner of grilled salmon steaks with rice, asparagus, chocolate milk and now, rainbow gelato sherbet before bed.
Dave

 

[ohio_tuec]

Love that last package. From right here in good old Jamaica, New York Wonder where they were located?

 

[tolivac]

If the "Horsey" model in the picture on the package is to promote UPRIGHT Hoover bags-Why is she using a canister vacuum with the Hoover upright in the background?
The picture on the first "Padco" package the ladys smile looks so WIERD!
and the package says "Change bags frequently for best results"Maybe the paper used in the bags is LUNCH bag paper and NOT filter bag paper!Again the lady with the funky smile is using a CANISTER vacuum and the bags are for the Hoover upright?The bag pictured on the PADCO package sure doesn't look like a Hoover "C" bag!

 

[lux1521]

What's really interesting is that neither model is actually using a Hoover! In the first picture she is using something I can't identify, but the floor brush looks like a Shetland Lewyt design. In the second picture you have what looks like a pair of Eurekas. Not a Hoover in sight!

These days you don't have color pictures on vacuum bags, so you have to give credit for that.

 

[arh1953]

Not just any old bags

I want Ladye Padco's tv/stereo console! I bought an unopened 1976 Hoover replacement bag pack yesterday, fits Slimline, Portable, and Constellation.

Miss Home Care's living(?)room has the distinct look of The Avenue D Decorating Salon, serving the fine old families of St. Lucie County since 1972.

 

[xraytech]

I have a few packages of the second ones pictured, I have for both the convertible and the DAM, they are labled for Dart Drug, they both have the same matching Eureka canister and upright on them, apparently they only had one picture for all of their vac bags. Grandma had several(a dozen or more pks) of these for her Convertible as they must have been on special somewhere, that was always my favorite vac bag packaging as a child

 

[portable]

Love those wall-to-wall lights!

Dave -

I've often thought the same thing about those Subarus! Why have a lens that goes all the way across if you aren't going to light the durn thing? You did a great job. THAT will wake up the tailgater behind you on the road!!!

PS: I guess the modeling agency was out of "A" models the day they dug up Ms. Home Care Products. Yes, I DO want to just wrench her shoulders backward. Maybe she knew that she had to hunch to fit below that slanted corner on the package!

John L.