What the Dingdang Flamndoozle is this?!!!

[aeoliandave]

Headed briefly over to Michigan to retrieve the Kingston cylinder and a Compact; picked up a few other vacuumish things along the way...

This has to be the most bizarre! Fan blades through the exhaust port/bag clamp.

 

[aeoliandave]

Yup, that's sure nuff a suction fan with a belt driving three polisher brushes.

 

[aeoliandave]

Its a FILLERY Model SP-3 and the headlght works!

Vacuum Polisher? Patent application dated 1953, Made in Great Britain for export to the Commonwealth - yes, that's what it states. Sadly, the bag is gone - I asked - it arrived without it. But it will be fairly simple to carve a piece to attach an old bag to (I'll use the dark red sateen bojack bag that came with my Hoover 913 that Tom A gave me a real Hoover bag for). The handle has a spring hook for one.

I think Doug Smith knows about these...

The brushes are removable and accept snap-on pads but the bases extend below the rubber bumper edge. Would there be some sort of casters to use it as a vacuum alone? Why would a polisher have such a powerful vacuum stream? Is this what one uses to smooth & polish fresh terrazzo floors? WTF?

Oh well, its pretty and metal and red and Bakelite. LOL

 

[aeoliandave]

On to more conventional vacuums rescued...

From the back:
A pale green/turquoise Compact C-4 with front knob sliders and the hose.
The Kingston with hose and 4 tools. This one pulls an astounding 82" - much stronger than the Monitors that pull 55".
The wackydoodle Fillery vacuum polisher.
A chrome, aluminum and oxblood red Canadian Electrolux triple polisher Model BA-5. It was 50% day at Sally Ann so I got it for $4.50.
An excellent condition Hoover Runabout with all the tools under the lid and a chrome collapsing wand and Turbo Floor tool. A Hoover Pod vac, I couldn't leave it behind. Now I officially have a growing Pod Vac sidebar collection.

Out of the picture is a chrome Sunbeam Touch 'N Blend 9 speed blender.

A whole bunch of round and square cupcake pans, cake tins and wire grill stands to fit the new GE 1.5 cubic foot Profile Series Microwave/Convection oven I had to get last week when the 23 year old Kenmore nuked its last. Since the new one has a turntable and round raised rack (made muffins last week and the pan kept banging into the oven sides when the turntable revered) few of my pans work, as the Kenmore had no turntable.

 

[tolivac]

A dustless floor machine-Early-Now it is being determined that floor polishing dust-from waxes and floor polisher pads makes for minor workplace hazards where such machines are used.New burnishers have filters or bags to catch the dust.and the Kirby floor polisher attachment would be dustless as well.Very nice machine-hope you can find a bag for it!!It is surprizing how much dust some polishers,burnishers make-one night I was in a Food Lion store and a floor maintenance crew was using a propane motored burnisher to polish the floors-the exhaust wasn't so bad-nor the noise-at first sounded like someone driving a motorcycle up and down the isles-but the dust thrown from the floor polisher pad on the machine was thrown all over the store.Wished that one had a dust collecting system-it needed it.Newer ones have it.and also better mufflers on the propane motors to better trap the exhaust-and oxygen monitors that shut down the motor if oxygen levels get too low.You would have to run that machine for a very long time for the monitor to trip off the engine.

 

[eluxca]

Sebo has an attachement that fits on the Felix and C3 canister that polishes the floor and suctions up the dust. It is reminiscent of a Compact Magic Disk. Pricey attachment, though, at north of $200.

Many older uprights suctioned the dust while polishing - the Hoover 700 series with the optional polishing brush, the Eureka 250 with the optional brush, etc....

Europe was the place to find a dedicated floor polisher with a suction fan. Hoover, Fillery to name a couple. We Americans were not deemed worthy of such a machine. Pity, it is a great idea.

John

 

[crevicetool]

Dave, I must insist you please watch your language

on the forums. DingDang, Flamndoozle. Outside of the profanity used, this is a very interesting thread. You never fail to amaze me with your purchases and discoveries!

Thanks for the post.
Rick

 

[aeoliandave]

After and before.

Workin' through the pile of new trash. There's just too much stuff on the kitchen floor and I've stubbed my bare morning toes twice already and that's before the first coffee.

Rearranging attic to accommodate vacuums up to the eaves. The GE and the Hoover Runabout wre good to go up and now the Electrolux polsiher has had a once over up it goes too.

It is such a joy to work on machines made of aluminum and bakelite. They look so sorry & hopeless with decades of grime and old polish caked on 'em but a little elbow grease and steel wool, magic eraser and rubber restorer shines them up right.
Next, the Compact...still has an original style blue/green motor filter and it's clean!

 

[aeoliandave]

I got me a Crevicetool type project ahead of me...

Since this Kingston motor is in excellent shape (and pulls 82") like Rick's Model T I will spare no effort stripping this to the metal and repainting.
I'm thinking because of that extraordinarily strong suction this Kingston will get a power socket for a PN. A sleeper Monster Vac!

 

[aeoliandave]

Unlike the Monitors with polished aluminum side trim, the Kingston has stamped steel trim painted hammertone...and badly rusted. Musta had water inside the can, too, as the paint has flaked off & rusted the bottom inside. Fortunately the bag is still relatively good as is the rubber ring.

 

[aeoliandave]

Front and rear caps are polished aluminum castings with paint so they should clean up nicely as is the Handle.

The cord is original,supple and a light grey. This gives direction of where my restoration thoughts are heading...

 

[aeoliandave]

Fortunately no dents in the carcass.

The bottom is it's best side. Model 4-D.

So, since I can't concoct custom tinted Hammertone like Rick, but can get Krylon and Tremclad Hammered Finish exterior patio furniture spray enamel in light grey, dark gray, brown or slate I will paint the central cylinder light grey but mask out the bottom between the runners to preserve the original shade, which won't be seen without a prostate exam type inspection on the Judging Table. I'm told the Canadian Firestone version of this vacuum came in light hammertone Grey.

If the stripped aluminum caps are as I suspect polished under the paint (those polished circumferential bands are part of the cap casting) I'll re-polish them to a gleam and see how it looks against the grey hammertone. I know the side trim will have to be hammered as well. The nameplates are riveted but are easily masked out.

This won't happen overnight but perhaps before I leave for Syracuse mid December.

Dave

 

[crevicetool]

That will be a handsome unit when finished Dave!

Could you do a shot of the front cover latches opened? The Tank is not completely round is it? Great machine!

Rick

 

[aeoliandave]

I'm in lust over the shapely flowing design of the Monit

The bag rim and opening are round. And my mistake, the aluminum bag cover seats inside the polished aluminum tank rim band. At the motor end it is a one piece aluminum casting with band polished.

As for the interior I don't know how the bag managed to escape lying in the rust rot puddle but glad it did. One less thing standing in its way to a deserved restoration. Again, I'm-so-amazed-I-have-to-keep-saying, at 82" lift this particular Kingston sucks better than a Canadian Lux Z89..not as hushed, tho.

Lookee, the original screened motor filter in shiny like-new condition!

 

[crevicetool]

That's what I wanted to see.

Those are really nifty latches!

Thanks
Rick

 

[dustmoot]

Nifty Keen : Part Two

I am very impressed by the third picture. Excellent finds, all around !

 

[aeoliandave]

More Flingflammery!

This arrived by Post from Utah this morning. Got a thing for a teardrop shape...on anything.

The 12" wide DAVIS Electrosweep electric carpet sweeper was a luxury item for the well-to-do. Instead of a manual carpet sweeper, it was electric (less work to use). It was probably manufactured in the late 30's. It has a one piece Bakelite body and contains nothing more than a small AC motor geared to a cam arm that sweeps the brush forward and back in an arc, in contact with the surface. No wheels, it simply glides across the carpet on two polished steel base plates which open to dump the debris, just like a manual Carpet Sweeper. Went after it because I contacted the seller to be sure the Bakelite was chip & crack free. Thus assured, I bid. In order to have it shipped reasonably I had her discard the straight maple pole handle but send all the handle hardware such as cord hooks and bolts. I have a salvaged stock of thinner maple broom and mop poles so that was easy.

It arrived tightly swathed in bubblewrap layers in perfect filthy condition. Bakelite color loses it's 'faded fog' and comes back to life with Mother's Mag Polish and wax. The cord on it was petrified vintage lamp cord, of which I have an un-petrified stock. The cord is replaced and it works quite well. I plan to put new cloth woven covered lamp cording on it, tho. The motor sweeps the brush back & forth flinging carpet and floor dirt into the two side bins.

And it looks so sexy doing it. Almost as sexy as the pre WW1 Streamlined Moderne manual KENMORE sweeper beside it. Like the Kenmore, the Electrosweep's andle bale, hardware and screws are nickle-plate. With the Oak BISSELL 'Grand Rapids' I guess I have a carpet sweeper sub-collection happening. LOL

 

[aeoliandave]

I've been wanting a Kirby Handi Butler...

I've always thought a handi butler would be a nifty and appropriate thing to have for polishing and detailing aluminum parts. Watched a few alone go on Ebay but they tend to sell high or are missing major bits like buffing wheels or the flexishaftcable chuck thingie. Then I stumbled across this extraordinary dark red/maroon accessory set for the KIRBY Classic on Ebay for $9.99 !!! and it's in Northern Detroit - Madison Heights to be exact, a half block from the Oakland Mall.

Now, I don't have a KIRBY Classic yet but that's no reason not to snap up soooo many parts at such a price, eh? The hose alone is the perfect shade for the Westinghouse T-4. I know because I have a flamin' red Kirby hose on mine ( that came on a Fairfax) that screws to the Westy connectors perfectly. But it is so garishly red against the pale orchid hammertone...

So that's why I continue on this Thread - I'm off on another pick-up daytrip to east Michigan on Monday. And this time I'll go armed with Thrift Shop addresses on the GPS.

Anyone want to meet up for lunch, say in Ann Arbor, maybe, Chad?

 

[aeoliandave]

The rest of the treasure.