Thread Number: 11128
Bidone Aspiratutto- Alfatec |
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Post# 265923 , Reply# 4   2/3/2014 at 13:30 (3,705 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa)   |   | |
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Seeing Guido's post about these vacuums made me do some research as I remember seeing one in the Electrolux sample room.
Whats more interesting is that we had an Electrolux version called an aqualux, It featured a different head but the same attachments and wheel set up, later the drum became plastic. Tornado ( post above) is a company owned by Electrolux so that could be were the connections comes in. It has renewed my search for this or the Aqualux |
Post# 266088 , Reply# 5   2/4/2014 at 11:49 (3,704 days old) by tommymilan (milano)   |   | |
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Dear friends, this vacuum cleaner was extremely common in Italy in the late 70s and very popular in Italy in the 80s. I remember that many people I knew had it for cleaning their garages, cars, outdoor spaces, for blowing dead Leaves etc.
Some people thought they could clean their house with it but got quite disappointed, as the huge diameter of its hose and wands was better for large debrises collection than for deep and fine dusting. However under the motor cover there's a cylinder containing a 800 watts motor around protected by a cloth filter and a paper bag, both wrapped around and kept in place by an elastic... nothing complicated. The early version, until around 1985, had Ivory/beige attachments and a "dolly" with two fixed wheels on the rear and a pivoting one on the front, then replaced by a round ring with five pivoting wheels. Alfatec also produced other models of different sizes, also for wet/dry purposes, as soon as I find my old depliants I'll scan them for you. Funny thing, I remeber that on a magazine called "Famiglia Cristiana" that an old aunt of mine used to buy, there were very nice illustrated ads of the Bidone Aspiratutto, I found some of them, have a look and enjoy! Greetings, Tommy |
Post# 266089 , Reply# 6   2/4/2014 at 11:50 (3,704 days old) by tommymilan (milano)   |   | |
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Post# 266101 , Reply# 17   2/4/2014 at 11:57 (3,704 days old) by tommymilan (milano)   |   | |
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Post# 266103 , Reply# 19   2/4/2014 at 11:59 (3,704 days old) by tommymilan (milano)   |   | |
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Post# 266106 , Reply# 20   2/4/2014 at 12:02 (3,704 days old) by tommymilan (milano)   |   | |
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Post# 266108 , Reply# 22   2/4/2014 at 12:12 (3,704 days old) by tommymilan (milano)   |   | |
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Post# 266109 , Reply# 23   2/4/2014 at 12:22 (3,704 days old) by tommymilan (milano)   |   | |
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