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Thread Number: 23958
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Post# 268305 2/18/2014 at 08:14 (3,718 days old) by bvac6  (Fort Wayne, Indiana) |
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I picked this beauty up from my Tennessee haul and just now got around to working on it. It didnt run, the cord was shot as was the pigtail cord that ran from the bottom of the handle to the motor. So, lacking a suitable brown replacement, I cannibalized a black Kirby cord and wired it up. After a good bearing lube, a commutator polishing (you could see yourself in it, and a new belt it ran like a dream! Original bag to! The pic shows the embossed KENMORE across the front bumper, It looks good but it needs touched up with gold paint.
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| Post# 268310 , Reply# 2 2/18/2014 at 09:27 (3,718 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA) | ||
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| Post# 268405 , Reply# 3 2/18/2014 at 17:06 (3,718 days old) by portable (Corvallis, OR) | ||
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| Post# 268410 , Reply# 4 2/18/2014 at 17:58 (3,718 days old) by mjm0424 (Chicago suburbs) | ||
116 Kenmore
We had the exact same model when I was growing up. That machine cleans rings around any of that plastic crap they make today! My mom got it in 1947 as a mothers' day gift for my grandmother. Still have the machine.In 67 years the only things we replaced were the cord,started to crack. The bumper cracked with age,& fell off. I replaced it with some grey rubber weather stripping.I kept the original bumper.Around 1965 the handle fork cracked. My dad,& I went to a vacuum shop on east 79th st. in Chicago;& got a duplicate handle fork.It has the usual scuffs,& scratches for a cleaner that old.It's on the left,I think that was taken before the bumper fell off.
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