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Post# 21342   9/28/2007 at 20:40 (6,026 days old) by petek (Ontario)        

Very much thanking Marty who sent me an original Eureka bag to fit on this machine. Here she is looking much much nicer, still in need of a wipe and rub here and there but I think she even sounds better now

Post# 21343 , Reply# 1   9/28/2007 at 20:44 (6,026 days old) by petek (Ontario)        

And the dowdy looking before picture with the generic flour sack

Post# 21348 , Reply# 2   9/28/2007 at 22:54 (6,026 days old) by charles~richard ()        

Very lovely, in a kitschy 1970s way. I think you should name her Sylvia.



Post# 21349 , Reply# 3   9/28/2007 at 23:57 (6,026 days old) by petek (Ontario)        

Sylvia? At first I thought why Sylvia, she's not silvery she's golden coloured but then it dawned on me that Sylvia is derived from the latin for woods. Nothing to do with silver at all. So Sylvia she will be. Sylvia Goldstaubsauger (look that one up Charles lol)

Post# 21350 , Reply# 4   9/29/2007 at 00:13 (6,026 days old) by eluxomarty (Palm Springs)        
I like

Eureka Gold. or just Goldie! Pete, I'm glad the bag got to you okay! I'm looking for a blue bag now!!!!

Marty


Post# 21351 , Reply# 5   9/29/2007 at 00:26 (6,026 days old) by petek (Ontario)        

Did you get my email Marty?

Post# 21365 , Reply# 6   9/29/2007 at 08:27 (6,025 days old) by funvacfan (Canada)        
Goldstaubsauger...

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So, Silvia's heritage is German! She does look wonderfull
with her new dress!

Guy


Post# 21377 , Reply# 7   9/29/2007 at 12:44 (6,025 days old) by charles~richard ()        
"Sylvia, oh Sylvia..."

Sylvia leapt to my mind because I used to have a neighbor named Sylvia whose entire house looked like that vacuum cleaner!!

Post# 21381 , Reply# 8   9/29/2007 at 14:44 (6,025 days old) by ian88 ()        

GeldStaubsauger, thank you very much -.o

;]


Post# 21387 , Reply# 9   9/29/2007 at 18:10 (6,025 days old) by eluxomarty (Palm Springs)        
Pete

Got your email and sent you one! :)

Marty


Post# 21398 , Reply# 10   9/29/2007 at 22:47 (6,025 days old) by dial-a-nap (Omaha - the home of the TV Dinner)        

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That's just beautiful - I have her twin sister "Golda", a gift from Jeff P and one of my favorites. It's a drag name if I ever heard one - Goldie Eureka!

Post# 21401 , Reply# 11   9/30/2007 at 01:51 (6,025 days old) by 74simon ()        
Much better!

How bojack bags make me cringe...

I once had some very similar curtains to the correct bag, actually...

Si


Post# 21413 , Reply# 12   9/30/2007 at 12:22 (6,024 days old) by charles~richard ()        

I once had some very similar curtains to the correct bag, actually...

SYLVIA! I wondered what had become of you -- you moved all the way to the UK??! hahaha


Post# 21423 , Reply# 13   9/30/2007 at 17:10 (6,024 days old) by myvacsrock (USA)        

hey Pete!

Nice eureka! I have the same one only with the cord-reel and you have to touch the handle to start it! It was a whole $2.00 at a church rummage sale and it is good condition


Post# 21424 , Reply# 14   9/30/2007 at 17:15 (6,024 days old) by petek (Ontario)        

Kyle, not sure what you mean about touching the handle. Can you post a pic of that, thanks.

Post# 21427 , Reply# 15   9/30/2007 at 19:58 (6,024 days old) by myvacsrock (USA)        

hey Pete yeah i will once i get it cleaned up. There is a sensor in the handle to make it start so you have to hold the handle to make it start! I think Jeff Parker can give more info then i can.....Jeff take the floor!

Post# 21431 , Reply# 16   9/30/2007 at 21:31 (6,024 days old) by hoover1060 ()        
Touch power handle grip

What Kyle is referring to is a feature exclusive to Eureka's TOL uprights from 1972-1976 or so.
Basically it was a little squeeze bar/momentary contact switch that turned the cleaner on when you squeezed the handle grip. On paper it would look like a cool feature, but in use it was really a pain in the A**.
It was first available in 1972 on the Golden Vanguard uprights, models 2082 and 2092, the ultra deluxe version of Pete's model, which also featured cord reel, and on the 2092 a chrome hood.
I have a beautiful 2092 that won 2 ribbons at the 2004 Chicago convention. One of my favorite Eureka machines!


Post# 21433 , Reply# 17   9/30/2007 at 22:30 (6,024 days old) by petek (Ontario)        

Ah so... something akin to the Electroluxs power nozzle switch in the grip. thanks

Post# 21434 , Reply# 18   12/31/2069 at 18:00 (19,811 days old) by charles~richard ()        

Some of the Canadian Luxes had this too - starting with the ZB89 but then I don't know how late it ran.




Post# 21443 , Reply# 19   10/1/2007 at 06:50 (6,023 days old) by countryguy (Astorville, ON, Canada)        

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The hose on my Lux AP280 from 1981 also had the squeeze trigger on the hose handle for the power nozzle.

Gary


Post# 21447 , Reply# 20   10/1/2007 at 07:43 (6,023 days old) by hoover1060 ()        
that switch was a PAIN!

you pretty well have to hold the drip firmly, and even then sometimes the machine will switch off and on as you move the cleaner.
I should have also mentioned there was also the normal 3-position rocker switch on the handle front as well, marked ATT/HI/LO. Flipping the switch up to ATT overode the grip switch and turned the motor on for attachment use. The middle position is HI and allows the motor to run on HI speed when the grip is squeezed. Flipping the switch to LO gives you low speed when the grip is squeezed.
I believe that some recent Rainbow models had a similar switch arrangement for the power nozzle.


Post# 21448 , Reply# 21   10/1/2007 at 08:31 (6,023 days old) by petek (Ontario)        

So the US model Eluxes never had the switch grip like the Canadian models?

Post# 21451 , Reply# 22   10/1/2007 at 11:43 (6,023 days old) by charles~richard ()        

No, they didn't. It's kinda funny, when I got my ZB89 and started using it, I did not know about the squeeze trigger. As I was vacuuming, the power nozzle kept cutting on and off. I thot it was a problem with the PN wire so I jiggled it a bit and that did not fix the problem. I wrote the seller (eBay) and explained the problem, thinking there was something wrong with the PN! It was only after he told me about the squeeze-switch that I realized what was going on. I agree that it's a pain in the butt to have to keep squeezing on that handle. I do not think mine has the "override" switch, or, at any rate, don't recall seeing it. I'll have to look again.

Note the three different PNs above- they were all for the apparently long-running Canadian ZB89 [or is it Z89?? I can never remember], which was more or less contemporaneous with the American tan G and 1205.

The first 89 had the cord-wrapped hose, then at some point a pigtail electric hose came out. All three models had the same telescoping wand.



Post# 21455 , Reply# 23   10/1/2007 at 12:02 (6,023 days old) by countryguy (Astorville, ON, Canada)        

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Personally, I loved the squeeze trigger on the lux's handle. It was exactly where I held the handle anyway and it definitely wasn't difficult to squeeze so it didn't in any way make my finger tired squeezing it. And it was so nice to be able to just let go of the handle and the power nozzle would stop. I wish that they had continued with that switch instead of the bulky switches (or on some hoses, no switch at all) that came out on the later hoses which are still in use.

Gary


Post# 21462 , Reply# 24   10/1/2007 at 15:10 (6,023 days old) by charles~richard ()        

Well, I'm sure it's a matter of what one is used to.




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