Thread Number: 34885
/ Tag: 50s/60s/70s Vacuum Cleaners
A new arrival at the Home for Wayward Vacuum Cleaners |
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Post# 376444   8/5/2017 at 18:18 (2,426 days old) by electrolux137 (Los Angeles)   |   | |
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~ We have a new arrival at the Home for Wayward Vacuum Cleaners. |
Post# 376445 , Reply# 1   8/5/2017 at 18:53 (2,426 days old) by vacuumlad1650 (Wauponsee, IL)   |   | |
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Post# 376447 , Reply# 2   8/5/2017 at 19:33 (2,426 days old) by n0oxy (Saint Louis Missouri, United States)   |   | |
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The 1205 is a great machine, I have one as well, very nice sounding motor, hold on to that gem and treat it well. Mike |
Post# 376453 , Reply# 3   8/5/2017 at 20:35 (2,426 days old) by cuffs054 (monticello, ga)   |   | |
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HaHa, the card says "dicky"! |
Post# 376461 , Reply# 4   8/5/2017 at 21:40 (2,426 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina)   |   | |
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I've got two of them. both are 1969-70 vintage with smooth sheetmetal, light teal front panel and no pigtail connector. I've got one of them at Goodwill about 13 years ago with a full set of tools including a PN1 and rare pistol grip hose. The other one my dad rescued from a neighbor's trash pile when I was in high school. It had a non-powered hose. I brought it home last summer when my parents were downsizing, replaced the broken handle and fitted it up with a vinyl hose and a PN2.
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Post# 376472 , Reply# 5   8/6/2017 at 08:01 (2,425 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA)   |   | |
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Post# 376473 , Reply# 6   8/6/2017 at 08:03 (2,425 days old) by n0oxy (Saint Louis Missouri, United States)   |   | |
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I wonder when mine was made, when did they remove the pig tail connector, mine does not have that, so I'm assuming it's a later model, 1972 or 1973 perhaps? Was the same motor used in all of the 1205 models? It still runs very smooth, it just goes to show how well these machines were made. Mike |
Post# 376474 , Reply# 7   8/6/2017 at 08:19 (2,425 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina)   |   | |
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The pigtail connector was only on the very first 1205s made, I believe, in 1968. The second iteration, made in 1969-70, like mine, lost the pigtail connector but retained the light teal panel surrounding the hose connector and went to a molded plastic control panel in a darker jade color. The third iteration, which would have come out around 1971 got a dark jade front panel to match the control panel but retained the smooth sheetmetal. The the fourth iteration (1973) got the textured sheetmetal. The final iteration (1974) got a redesigned handle and control panel along with a gaudy gold paint job and was known to many as the Golden Jubilee or Golden J for short. The 1205 was then superseded by the larger and more powerful Super J, which retained the Golden J's color scheme.
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