Hey Guys!

I went to a local thrift store and they knew i was the vacuum kid. They saw this and was sure it went to a vacuum becuase of the brushroll. You tell me, did i watse a dollar on this huge heavy thing. Never seen one but if you guys tell me that it isn't anything important then if someone is in despriate need that wants one, heck just email me. I'll probably say you can have it but that is only if you tell me it isn't worth keeping. Here's a few pics.

Kyle

p.s. I think it is a eureka thing. By the way i rigged my power nozzle cord to it, it works great!!

IT!

IT AGAIN!

The IT bottom!

The back of IT

IT's info plate

THE FULL IT!!

IT is certainly something to behold. I have never seen one. Must be a commercial vac powerhead. It's nice they didn't try to clip you for more.

Thats a Don Clark Airway power nozzle.

If you got that for a buck you pretty well stole it.

Now go do your homework and find out the story behind it.

Hi Kyle:

I was just informed that these were and actual Air way PN too. I had thought the one in this picture was something that a vac shop jury rigged. Apparently not.

Doug

looks like a Eureka Sanitaire product to me if you do not want it I could use it but other than that it might be made by eureka.

Yes Kyle, "IT" is quite a find.

Someone else here has one of those, can't remember who though. It's quite an interesting and fun concept though not as practical as a regular upright. You should try and get the matching Airway to go with it and you'll have something quite neat.

hmmm...

Well then...I hope to find the Yellow Air-Way now!!

Hey wait.......!!

Fred N.

Isn't that a yellow Air-way i see in your collection page???

And it goes with the Eureka Power Nozzle!

WOW! I guess these aren't rare at all!

These power nozzles were commissioned independently of the AirWay Company by Don Clark, then the largest AirWay (I believe) distributor who operated out of Milwaukee. This was in response to the demand for a power nozzle and the competition which AirWay wasn't responding to. They are indeed, Eurekas. AirWay was none too happy about Don's ingeninuity and he tells the story of how he almost lost his distributorship because of this. He kept it, however, and the rest is history. Shortly thereafter, AirWay introduced its own power nozzle which can be seen on another thread here.

Well Kyle, "rare" is a relative term. No, the Don Clark power nozzle is not as rare as a Hoover Model O, or the original Whirlwind, but it's rarer than a lot of other things you may run across. I have only ever seen one "in real life," and only know of a couple of people who have them.

Really wasn't that good. The Eureka is large and bulky and it retained its own fan. I am not sure of the physics of the whole thing, but the combination of the suction of the machine and the blowing of the Eureka caused problems.

Kept the fan? That's interesting I would have thought it only kept the beater bar

The hits just keep on coming from you don't they.

I agree with Jeff, if you truly paid a dollar for this, you've done gotten the "steal of the century"...

I've never seen, only heard about these "Don Clark" conversions, and find it interesting that they are literally a base model Eureka Rugulator upright, with a bellows, and handle conversion done up to meet with the standard A-W hose ferrule.

According to the recent article written by our own Andy Weter, that this wasn't the first one made either. The VERY first power nozzle for the Sanitizor series was built for Don by Hamilton Beach. I actually have a Western Auto catalog from fall and winter 1965, which clearly shows a Hamilton beach upright complete with bag, sold along side the current Eureka built "wizard" upright of the time.

And of course Andy was great enough to find a picture of this "conversion" of the H-B for that article, that shows the head being used with the Sanitizor S wand, that normally came as standard equipment. A bulky power cord ran the length of the hose and wand from that head nee' post D2 series Rexair-Rainbow's that had a continuous cord running from the head to the outlet on the machine, of course held by straps along the way.

I know that in Andy Weter's history of AirWay in the VDTA magazine he talked about how Eureka actually built the Air-Way Sanitizor for several years, and thus, comes as no surprise that they private labeled these heads for Mr. Clark. even tho they were doing it on the "down low" from the big wigs over at Air-Way.

What I'm comparatively confused about is that someone on the other thread about the later Royal built power heads, of which I have used one before stated that he visited "the Air-Way factory" sometime around 1970 for this conversion to be done...

Well, if Air-Way had Eureka building it's machines from 1957 as Andy stated in his article, they obviously built these heads, and the member stating that he toured the factory....I find it rather interesting that sometime between 1957, and 1970 Air-Way either moved shop, or they never moved at all....yet Eureka apparantly built these machines for a hot minute....


Andy...where are you????

Ahhhh...such is the confusing and interwoven tapestry of vacuo-drama history for us to continuously learn of.

BTW...Did you replace the brushroll tho or is that how it came to you. As you know it is more unique with it's original roller in it....

I have a question tho...why haven't I heard about this item yet...oh wait yeah...we haven't talked in like a bijillion years or more.

Please call me tomorrow so we can catch up...

And I want to talk about that Apex.....


Chad

The year that the factory was visited was 1974. My goof....


Chad

The "It" may be interesting to try with various canister vacs-a "tandem air canister"the fan in the Eureka head and of course the main one in the canister!also wonder if the air flowing thru the fan could spin the brushroll without connecting the "its" motor?Sounds like a fascinating device to experiment with-for a buck a super buy.when you wish-bet you could take the canister wand tube off it and fit on a usual Eureka bag and handle-and you then have a Eureka upright.

I guess it's a pre made monster vac.