My Grandmother had a B8 in the 1205 era blue. When I was about 11 or 12 or so, one summer we all went to the house to help do a big cleaning. My Aunts had me out in the backyard with the giant gold carpet from one of the bedrooms with the Golden Jubilee and the B8. Reading the hose on the Golden Jubilee I was scared the whole time I would get shocked as I was outdoors using the vacuum! Not on water though! I kind of gathered after a while it was more about sucking up wet stuff is what would create the problem and is more likely to occur outside. In fact my grandmother used to vacuum her outside porches with her Electrolux which I thought was odd. Anyway, They somehow knew I would be the perfect one to do the shampooing because they all already knew how much I liked to get the vacuums out when I visited. My Aunt had to go get a new soap dispenser for it somehow the old one was leaking. I was literally “the kid in the candy store” that day.
I noticed how much brighter the rug came out and a few years later when walking home from school someone had a Model AF Or R colored turbo tool rug washer on top of their trash can. It came home with me. Still have it today and I’ve used it 7 or 8!times since then and that was about 42 years ago as I was in 4th grade I think. I even loaned it to a friend and she shampooed several rugs in her house with it over a period of a week.
That turbo shampoo is interesting the way it works.
My Mom threw away the B8 when she had to empty the house after my Grandmother and Aunt who had lived there all had finally passed away in mid 90s. Should have kept it, my Brother could have used it, he burnishes his antique hardwoods in his house from 1735 in Rhode Island. Instead he has to rent one of those giant heavy commercial circular units.
