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Thread Number: 31710
/ Tag: Recent Vacuum Cleaners from past 20 years
What does this Kenmore powerhead go to? |
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| Post# 350164 4/12/2016 at 15:41 (2,936 days old) by icee (Indiana) | ||
I found this kenmore powerhead model SP 80ps at a thrift store. It looks absolutely pristine, can't hardly find a scratch on it. It was $5, figured why not might find something that it'll go to one day. Thing is, I really have no idea what model canister it goes to, does anyone know?
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| Post# 350165 , Reply# 1 4/12/2016 at 16:09 (2,936 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA) | ||
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| Post# 350170 , Reply# 2 4/12/2016 at 16:39 (2,936 days old) by blknblu (CT) | ||
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Google is your friend It belongs to a Kenmore 175.8690190 carpet cleaner vacuum You can look it up on the Sears PartsDirect website. Here is a small part of the diagram Notice the Ryobi Motor Products on it also. Prefix 176 was used for Ryobi I believe.
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| Post# 350176 , Reply# 3 4/12/2016 at 19:17 (2,935 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
Indeed, that power nozzle was made by Ryobi for one of Singer's last power nozzle canisters. We had these Singers in Canada in the 1980's methinks. I seem to remember them in Consumers Distributing Catalogue stores.
Never saw a Kenmore version, but Singer had a history of making uprights for Sears, so it makes sense that they might have contracted a nifty canister from Singer for their Kenmore line-up. | ||
| Post# 350177 , Reply# 4 4/12/2016 at 19:27 (2,935 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA) | ||
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| Post# 350179 , Reply# 5 4/12/2016 at 19:42 (2,935 days old) by blknblu (CT) | ||
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So I am guessing the Ryobi division has been folded into the TTI floor care group, losing the Ryobi name.
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| Post# 350180 , Reply# 6 4/12/2016 at 19:51 (2,935 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA) | ||
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| Post# 350186 , Reply# 7 4/12/2016 at 21:49 (2,935 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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| Post# 350187 , Reply# 8 4/12/2016 at 22:08 (2,935 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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It's interesting to note the place that South Carolina's Pickens County plays in the history of Ryobi. At some point after World War II, the Singer Company began making sewing machine cabinets in the county (maybe due to the lumber available in the state). In 1959, The Singer Company consolidated its sawmill and cabinet operations with the woodworking operations from Arkansas and the Craftsman power tools from New Jersey to the Pickens location. So woodworking and power tools came to Pickens County because of Singer. It sounds like Ryobi eventually bought Singer's plant in South Carolina. I seem to remember that Ryobi's location was in Anderson, South Carolina. Which is where some of Ryobi's Singer vacuums were made.
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| Post# 350188 , Reply# 9 4/12/2016 at 22:13 (2,935 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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| Post# 350189 , Reply# 10 4/12/2016 at 22:23 (2,935 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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And here is a New York Times article reporting on the sale of this division of Singer to Ryobi:
Still not sure when this power nozzle was made for Sears: before the sale in 1988, or afterward. CLICK HERE TO GO TO eurekaprince's LINK | ||
| Post# 350208 , Reply# 11 4/13/2016 at 07:15 (2,935 days old) by floor-a-matic (somewhere) | ||
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It gos to a Sears CleanMore | ||
| Post# 350244 , Reply# 12 4/13/2016 at 13:24 (2,935 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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| Post# 350400 , Reply# 13 4/15/2016 at 22:48 (2,932 days old) by fan-of-fans (USA) | ||
This power nozzle indeed went with a late version of the Kenmore Cleanmore system. Which was a carpet washer, but could also be used as a wet or dry vacuum also. At one point bags were available and some more deluxe versions came with dry cleaning attachment kits. This power nozzle was sold packaged with it as a sort of 3 in 1 machine or possibly could be purchased separately. This was around 1994ish.
I believe there was also a version of Singer canister relabeled under the Kenmore name with a similar power nozzle some time in the 90s. I believe Bissell bought the Singer floor care line. I think this because in the mid-90s Singer sold a turtle shaped carpet cleaner which also came under the Kenmore name with the Spraymate nozzle and later Bissell sold the same one in green with their own name on it and also supplied it to Sears with the Bissell Powerbrush head. That was the successor to the Cleanmore and could also be used as a wet or dry vac as well. | ||
| Post# 350508 , Reply# 14 4/17/2016 at 14:27 (2,931 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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Thank you for that answer, Cole. :-). Very interesting....
Just like the brandname Lewyt, the brandname Singer seems to be floating loosely around the world owned by whoever has paid to have the copyright on the name. The names are no longer representative of the original companies, factories and design offices. And whoever owns the name has the right to slap it on whatever product they make. But it's interesting to note that the original Singer Motor Products plant in South Carolina that is now owned by a subsidiary of TTI (OWT - One World Technologies), now makes the Ridgid wet and dry shop vacs for Home Depot. It seems that this plant in South Carolina indeed has a history of making both power tools and shop vacs for the do-it-yourselfer and construction market. | ||
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