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| Post# 183079 , Reply# 2 5/29/2012 at 12:54 (4,347 days old) by ryry_87 (Earth) | ||
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group pic.. The whole family, the orange Ensign 350 and X4 clear belong to my mate richie. I've since got nice new hoses for the 350 and 360 CLICK HERE TO GO TO ryry_87's LINK 
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| Post# 183081 , Reply# 3 5/29/2012 at 12:56 (4,347 days old) by ryry_87 (Earth) | ||
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and I'm waiting for this one, on its way from germany. A very rare 1991 X1 in brown and cream. One of the very first. Will post more pics of it when its here and cleaned up :) 
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| Post# 183083 , Reply# 4 5/29/2012 at 13:10 (4,347 days old) by hoovermanmick () | ||
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very nice ryan seen a blue sebo on gumtree 15 pound | ||
| Post# 183087 , Reply# 5 5/29/2012 at 14:07 (4,347 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa) | ||
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| Post# 183091 , Reply# 6 5/29/2012 at 14:15 (4,347 days old) by ryry_87 (Earth) | ||
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i've actually never seen a 370 in this country, I think they are available but most companies seem to go for the BS36 model instead | ||
| Post# 183096 , Reply# 7 5/29/2012 at 14:34 (4,347 days old) by Turbo500 (West Yorkshire, UK) | ||
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| Post# 183099 , Reply# 8 5/29/2012 at 14:39 (4,347 days old) by ned_flanders () | ||
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I like your video where you're dressed to match the orange colors :) | ||
| Post# 183108 , Reply# 9 5/29/2012 at 14:55 (4,347 days old) by ryry_87 (Earth) | ||
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thanks jeff lol it wasn't intentional! according to the sebo history site chris it came in 86' | ||
| Post# 183110 , Reply# 10 5/29/2012 at 14:58 (4,347 days old) by ryry_87 (Earth) | ||
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german sebo history CLICK HERE TO GO TO ryry_87's LINK | ||
| Post# 183113 , Reply# 11 5/29/2012 at 15:02 (4,347 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa) | ||
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| Post# 183116 , Reply# 12 5/29/2012 at 15:06 (4,347 days old) by ryry_87 (Earth) | ||
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ah that makes sense :) | ||
| Post# 183148 , Reply# 13 5/29/2012 at 16:00 (4,347 days old) by funvacfan (Canada) | ||
Hey there... | ||
| Post# 183164 , Reply# 14 5/29/2012 at 16:19 (4,347 days old) by ryry_87 (Earth) | ||
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thats the Jeyes Ensign 350 :) i must admit thats my favourite colour scheme too | ||
| Post# 183166 , Reply# 15 5/29/2012 at 16:21 (4,347 days old) by ryry_87 (Earth) | ||
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Jeyes Hygiene Ensign 350 ... 
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| Post# 183230 , Reply# 16 5/29/2012 at 22:51 (4,347 days old) by Blackheart (North Dakota) | ||
Why change what works
They really have not changed much over the years but if there is no need to why bother they hold up to commercial use extremely well i know at the school i had a summer position at the versamatics held up much better than the Flexamatics.
It's kind of strange to see them in orange and brown i've only ever seen blue in person, you have a nice lil' collection of em Ryan | ||
| Post# 183233 , Reply# 17 5/29/2012 at 23:51 (4,347 days old) by BriGuy (Wichita, Kansas) | ||
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| Post# 183601 , Reply# 19 6/1/2012 at 14:10 (4,344 days old) by ryry_87 (Earth) | ||
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My early X1 Automatic arrived today :D it's in pretty good condition, hasn't been used for years though, was full of cobwebs 
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| Post# 183635 , Reply# 20 6/1/2012 at 15:32 (4,344 days old) by baglessball () | ||
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ryry_87 What do you use to clean your machines? I really like that clear sebo. If you ever feel like lifting it when your friends back is turned and posting it to someone. Let me know! Haha | ||
| Post# 183639 , Reply# 21 6/1/2012 at 15:53 (4,344 days old) by ryry_87 (Earth) | ||
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haha I'll bear that in mind after i've finished playing with it, I usually use Flash surface cleaner to get the worst off, then i'll use Cif cream cleaner to get any really ingrained marks out then I detail them with a good silicon polish. | ||
| Post# 183644 , Reply# 22 6/1/2012 at 16:17 (4,344 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2) | ||
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| Post# 183646 , Reply# 23 6/1/2012 at 16:19 (4,344 days old) by ryry_87 (Earth) | ||
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I must admit I think the brown X1 is my fav, wanted one of these for years. Its so cool and retro looking. | ||
| Post# 183647 , Reply# 24 6/1/2012 at 16:22 (4,344 days old) by ryry_87 (Earth) | ||
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all the brown ones together :) . 
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| Post# 183662 , Reply# 25 6/1/2012 at 17:12 (4,344 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa) | ||
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| Post# 183667 , Reply# 26 6/1/2012 at 17:42 (4,344 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2) | ||
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| Post# 183676 , Reply# 27 6/1/2012 at 18:05 (4,344 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa) | ||
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| Post# 183678 , Reply# 28 6/1/2012 at 18:08 (4,344 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2) | ||
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| Post# 183680 , Reply# 29 6/1/2012 at 18:11 (4,344 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa) | ||
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| Post# 183685 , Reply# 30 6/1/2012 at 18:25 (4,344 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2) | ||
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The thing is gsheen, and I know you know a lot about IVAC machines, but I was led to believe very early on that IVAC were just a trader supplier company who dealt with other brands. I know we talked about this before - is there a history link online to provide the time line dates of IVAC's existence?
Through my job as a commercial cleaner, I've seen rebranded IVAC machines before as well as the SEBO that was given to me. If IVAC are using SEBO machines, it would stand to reason to why SEBO would go into a market at a time when they didn't have much of a market in certain countries. I notice a lot of commercial brands tend to do this with a lot of their products, especially bigger ride on machines and those Tennant double handle bar big box uprights. | ||
| Post# 183687 , Reply# 31 6/1/2012 at 18:35 (4,344 days old) by tommymilan (milano) | ||
Hello!
I'm very fond of Sebo commercial upright cleaers and I own several of them. I have to find the pictures but I just want to say that here in my flat in Milan a Sebo /Sorma 365 has been in ue for many years and everybody is happy with it. I loved the tm 455 that I used some years ago in a larger flat with much larger carpeted areas. I'll take pictures of my Seboes soon and will share them with you! tommy | ||
Post# 183709 , Reply# 33 6/1/2012 at 22:43 (4,344 days old) by gottahaveahoove  (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640) |
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WOW! | ||
| Post# 183753 , Reply# 34 6/2/2012 at 02:29 (4,344 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa) | ||
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| Post# 183754 , Reply# 35 6/2/2012 at 02:35 (4,344 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa) | ||
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@ vintage repairer Ivac used to manufacture machines for Nilco too.
@ sebo fan Yes Ivac used to be a trade manufacturer, I have seen those things badged as everything from a Nilco, electrolux , oreck samsung , dry rug , columbus , wap, wetrock to name a few,
With Ivac if you have a big enough cleaning company they will even make it for you in your company colours.
Then they launched there own in house brand , Fast .
As for tennant I love those big handle bar units, when you were in commercial cleaning did you ever come across advance machines, like the carpetwin16 | ||
| Post# 183769 , Reply# 36 6/2/2012 at 06:16 (4,344 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2) | ||
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OMG. The Carpetwin 16! YES... I never got a chance to use them, but I certainly saw a few of them when I worked in a lot of the massive offices in London. However, I got to use a commercial stick vacuum that I recall posting a thread response on here before, (www.vacuumland.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-...) which I got the chance to find and use at another place last year. I thought it was Italian because it came with Italian branded bags, the user manual was Italian but the name wasn't Italian sounding. It had a very similar floor head to the Carpetwin 16, but a flat head instead of the raised motor hood. It was very unusual looking, could have been a "Tornado" vacuum, but I'm still not sure! The old grey cells can't remember names sometimes - I go by visuals! Anyway, it was the biggest "stick" vacuum I had ever seen, the handle being taller than anything I've used - evidently because of the way the machine swivelled with its 14" floor head and its general design, it was clearly something made along the same lines of the Carpetwin 16 but lacked any additional functions on the floor head other than basic power. | ||
| Post# 183774 , Reply# 37 6/2/2012 at 06:50 (4,344 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa) | ||
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Some were I have a carpetwin 18, its a huge machine and I can't see any use for it than massive passage ways or carpeted halls , I must admit they bring back fond memory's as a child as all the banks and large retailers around here had them , My dad would always take me to find them on saturday mornings to play around, I have a Great DAD
Here is a link to the original 16 in red and white CLICK HERE TO GO TO gsheen's LINK | ||
| Post# 183775 , Reply# 38 6/2/2012 at 07:06 (4,344 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2) | ||
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| Post# 183781 , Reply# 39 6/2/2012 at 07:35 (4,344 days old) by ryry_87 (Earth) | ||
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that advanced thing? i've seen them before but didn't know we had them in this country? | ||
| Post# 255255 , Reply# 40 11/5/2013 at 07:01 (3,823 days old) by Turbo500 (West Yorkshire, UK) | ||
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BUMPED! | ||
| Post# 255257 , Reply# 41 11/5/2013 at 08:32 (3,823 days old) by Ultimatevacman ( Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK) | ||
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| Post# 255345 , Reply# 42 11/5/2013 at 17:38 (3,822 days old) by DaveTranter (Central England, U.K.) | ||
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Thanks, Turbo500 This thread was before my time here.... I have a friend who has recently acquired a Sebo... Not sure what model yet, but will post a picture asap. Thanks Dave T | ||
| Post# 255362 , Reply# 43 11/6/2013 at 02:58 (3,822 days old) by Ultimatevacman ( Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK) | ||
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| Post# 255364 , Reply# 44 11/6/2013 at 03:02 (3,822 days old) by Turbo500 (West Yorkshire, UK) | ||
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I have a friend who has recently acquired a Sebo | ||
| Post# 255371 , Reply# 45 11/6/2013 at 03:40 (3,822 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2) | ||
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| Post# 255376 , Reply# 46 11/6/2013 at 06:19 (3,822 days old) by Ultimatevacman ( Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK) | ||
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| Post# 255378 , Reply# 47 11/6/2013 at 07:51 (3,822 days old) by Turbo500 (West Yorkshire, UK) | ||
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I've been wanting a Sebo for ages, but I can't affor
Save up!! :)
I'm currently (trying) to save up for a D4 Premium with the DISCO floor polisher. This post was last edited 11/06/2013 at 08:23 | ||
| Post# 255398 , Reply# 48 11/6/2013 at 13:56 (3,821 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2) | ||
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| Post# 255399 , Reply# 49 11/6/2013 at 13:58 (3,821 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2) | ||
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| Post# 255413 , Reply# 50 11/6/2013 at 17:02 (3,821 days old) by Turbo500 (West Yorkshire, UK) | ||
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| Post# 255715 , Reply# 51 11/9/2013 at 10:52 (3,818 days old) by sebo_fan (Scotland, UK, member AKA ukvacfan, & Nar2) | ||
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Ah. Well Im not a fan of SEBO's electric hose - i had several problems over the years with the K3 Premium and SEBO are well aware of it. I've trialled the D4 some time ago at a John Lewis store who got one in for a buyer and well it is good but the hose on it isn't to my liking. The hose without the electrics added is long enough on the standard "suction only" D2 models, and that's enough for me.
The Felix however is a far lighter machine to use and far more compact even though you still get a long cord, it isn't as long as the D series and of course a smaller dust bag capacity. I'd only consider getting the Disco head if I had more hard flooring in the home. | ||
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