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Thread Number: 14604
My new hoover 262 |
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| Post# 154519 10/8/2011 at 08:06 (4,578 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa) | ||
 Wow so the same guy who GAVE me the Kirby 508 just happened to have this and 2 vorwerks aswell.
I have wanted one forever and now have one , a really good one . It has all its attachments even in the origonal box ( box needs attention ) She purrs like a kitten with that hoover thump thump thump on the carpet.
although she has a few scuffs , nothing serious and the underside looks brand new.
this is now the oldest hoover I have now 
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| Post# 154520 , Reply# 1 10/8/2011 at 08:07 (4,578 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa) | ||
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| Post# 154536 , Reply# 2 10/8/2011 at 10:50 (4,577 days old) by Brandon_W_T () | ||
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Definitely one of my favorite brown style hoovers ever! Beautiful hood design! That bag looms mint too! | ||
| Post# 154540 , Reply# 3 10/8/2011 at 11:19 (4,577 days old) by kirbymodel2c (Nottingham, England) | ||
Looks.. | ||
| Post# 154565 , Reply# 4 10/8/2011 at 17:57 (4,577 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield & London) | ||
And the flex?
Contratulations of the 262, it looks great. Is teh flex black or brown - it should be brown. I have a good example too although the outer casing of the flex has sort of melted into itself and another Uk collector has reported teh same thing.
You must be really pleased with your new additions, it was a great haul. Al | ||
| Post# 154602 , Reply# 5 10/9/2011 at 01:49 (4,577 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa) | ||
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| Post# 154628 , Reply# 6 10/9/2011 at 06:58 (4,577 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa) | ||
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| Post# 154644 , Reply# 7 10/9/2011 at 09:35 (4,577 days old) by Brandon_W_T () | ||
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HOLY BUCKETS!!!!! That handle is incredible!!!! They usually deformed and disintegrated over time. That is truly a fine example | ||
| Post# 154646 , Reply# 8 10/9/2011 at 09:53 (4,577 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa) | ||
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| Post# 154705 , Reply# 9 10/9/2011 at 17:15 (4,576 days old) by SeamusUK (Dover Kent UK) | ||
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Very Nice... Just one question- the Headlight opening appears to have been blocked off? heres mine showing the lamp. Seamus 
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Post# 154706 , Reply# 10 10/9/2011 at 17:24 (4,576 days old) by gottahaveahoove  (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640) |
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very nice,  | ||
| Post# 154772 , Reply# 11 10/10/2011 at 01:18 (4,576 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa) | ||
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| Post# 154775 , Reply# 12 10/10/2011 at 01:31 (4,576 days old) by twocvbloke () | ||
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"probably to stop young kids from sticking their fingers Well that won't teach them to not poke their fingers in lamp sockets, I learned that act was a bad idea when I was 4... :P | ||
| Post# 154778 , Reply# 13 10/10/2011 at 03:01 (4,576 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa) | ||
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actually you are so right, with all the health and safety laws these days Kid do not learn right from wrong early in life and so they find out latter the hard way. There would be an outrage here if you let your 8 year old son loose with a bow&arrow or let them go climbing in the hills all day but we did and we turned out fine. I can still remember playing in the back of my dads station-wagon when we went on long road trips , you will get a serious fine these days if you did that, NO children must be buckled up strapped inn and left to play vidio games all day, its to dangerous out there !!! | ||
| Post# 155486 , Reply# 15 10/15/2011 at 06:37 (4,571 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa) | ||
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David you not ranting your telling the truth,My dad is a great man but not a handy man , we inhereted lots of dangerous powertools from my grandad ( ones made before stafey gaurds were invented) been naturarly mechanical I to was using a saw bench and a lathe before I was 11 and found it frustrating that in school were I took woodwork we werent alloud to touch those toold untill our final years. It drove me insain. I was making bedside lamps and full tables at home but could only make stupid wooden cars in school.
You are right ( we agree for once ) allot of the adventure of life has been taken away, some of it is due o the amount of sick o's there are out there now some due to modern society and been safe. I must admit my eldest son Joshua is nine , Anthony is 7 both have used a drill both can take apart and resemble a vacuum both can cut the lawn and use a weedwacker both can climb a tree , your not a real boy unless you've fallen out of a tree but I still won't let them ride around the streets on there Bikes without me there. Its a different world to when you and I grew up I just couldn't stand to loose them
Gareth | ||
| Post# 155509 , Reply# 17 10/15/2011 at 09:32 (4,571 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa) | ||
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I agree with you to but were do we draw the line , when we wrap our children in bubble wrap ?
Running my business from home and also haveing a full testing lab further down on the property ( for testing vacs) My two boys were exposed to some pretty serious equipment when they were just small, I obviusly set up saftey fenses in the lab and am very carfull about leaving anything lying around but I also took the time to explaie to them that it is dangerous. w have never had any injury's or even scares with my boys. that plug issue had to be terrible for the parents but who was at fualt , Electrolux , no the parents for leaving a cord plugged in , yep .
I often feel that arge companys get sued and pay a high price for customer stupididtyand the consumer ends up paying the price.
wait til some rich kid sticks a vacuum hose over his eye with the machine on , company's will get sued and we will all wonder how we managed to use such a dangerous machine.
I agree that the sometimes the laws are good but there is also common sense something that is lacking from modern society | ||
| Post# 155527 , Reply# 19 10/15/2011 at 10:29 (4,570 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa) | ||
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Hi Simon not off the topic , it was brought up here so why not. I was a test and development engineer for electrolux and allot of the testing was saftey testing so I know what you mean. I now have a vac shop and see terrible things as far as plugs go every day.
A few years ago I owned a carpet cleaning company and we used long leads on some machines , on the big scrubbers I would always check the earth leakage wire with a continuity tester , my theory was that if the live or neutral wires broke the machine would stop working and that often happened and if they can break so can the earth and the only time you will find out is when you are holding the big metal handle standing on a wet floor and something short circuits. | ||
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