Thread Number: 3015
You'd think that with the gazillion XXXs that were rebuilt by Metropolitan, |
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Post# 33389 , Reply# 1   2/27/2008 at 04:56 (5,874 days old) by arh1953 ( River Park, in Port St. Lucie, Florida)   |   | |
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Post# 33402 , Reply# 2   2/27/2008 at 09:52 (5,874 days old) by electrikbroomgu (Rome, NY)   |   | |
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I remember when I was very young seeing boat loads of these Metro reconditioned Elux's in the late 70's and early 80's. Most were the XXX models but I did see the occasional AE, LX or E. Being the curious kid that I was, I used to open up most of the boxes that were handy to get to and check out the contents. Sometimes the bodys had dents larger than a quarter on the bottom sides, some were bashed in where the runners screwed in on the motor end of the machine(XXX), some forgot to screw the switch in place(XXX) so you could litterally lift it out of the machine while others had over spray on components that were not supposed to get it. The quality control was appalling on some machines and great on others. Even our local drug store sold them along with Metro Hand vacs and old stock Regina Electrikbrooms, usually for blowout cheap prices. I have one complete XXX rebuild from Metro in it's box that I posted in another thread. It is a later model with the round runners and saloon doors but it has an old 475 watt bakelite motor than had great suction but groans and has a broken or worn engine mount. I found this in the garbage while going to garage sales and the original sticker price from Carls Drugs was $69.95 and it was on sale for 54.95. I sure miss those days when you could walk into most any store and see these neat old vintage machines brand new or reconditioned.
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Post# 33491 , Reply# 4   2/27/2008 at 22:20 (5,873 days old) by normvac (COLUMBUS, OHIO)   |   | |
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Charlie, the discription says "with Pop out disposable bag" Was there ever a converson unit for the new C bags? That was adapted to the rebuilt XXX's? Norm |
Post# 33564 , Reply# 8   2/28/2008 at 23:21 (5,872 days old) by hygiene903 (Galion, OH)   |   | |
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Like Spiegel's, they didn't have a store, but in when I was growing up in Mansfield, OH they both had ordering offices there. Alden's was on the square, and Spiegel's was out at the shopping center (remember when we had shopping centers instead of malls?). You could look through a hardbound catalog and turn in your order, then pick it up there when it arrived. I think there was a substantial savings in shipping costs if you did it that way as opposed to having your purchases sent to your home. My folks did a lot of shopping with both Alden's and Spiegel's back in the day. They bought a Mansfield-Holiday movie camera and projector from Alden's when I was about 3 and I still have it. I've seen their catalogs on ebay, too, and would like to have one from the late 50's, but for some reason they're so much more expensive than Spiegel's, Sears, or Wards. Jeff |
Post# 33567 , Reply# 9   2/29/2008 at 00:24 (5,872 days old) by charles~richard ()   |   | |
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I have a couple of Aldens catalogs but they don't have any rebuilt Electroluxes. But they DO have some cool things, including the Westinghouse "big tire" canister that was similar to the G.E. Roll Easy! |