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Post# 42236   6/1/2008 at 21:51 (5,779 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        

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Today on the second of four days off work Tom Anderson and I went out on the Hunt for Wayward Vacuums.

I hit the road at dawn on Saturday, making my around Toledo toward farmland nestled in the crook where 71S meets 271E between Medina and Akron, to pick up an eBay win in person. There was a 35 minute wait in line to get across the Bluewater Bridge but having prepared myself for this the time passsed quickly. Then I hit 11 miles of I-90 reconstruction before Detroit. Then I got suddenly off-ramped & totally lost and confused in a nasty section of SE Detroit because half of I-75 south of Detroit is closed!!! argh. So rather than a leisurely two lane back road cruise to my first appointment I had to hightail it down the Ohio Turnpike 90, arriving at the first appointment at 3:30. Turned out to be another vacuum (and farm machinery, Chevrolet, kerosene two lung engines and so on based on a lovely isolated farm property in an idyllic valley so of course much jolly time was passed on all these subjects.

The lovely couple Debbie & Carl Stauffer did not know about VCCC or the forum! They sure do now and I hope we will see them at the Convention.

Having missed Tom at the Historical Center on his volunteer Saturday I checked into my sweet little North Canton motel room in the Big Box Mall Land shadow of Interstate 77, had a hearty Friendly's dinner, played some with the new vacuum(s) and went out to see Raiders Of The Lost Ark 4. Luved it...and Harrison Ford in a shower scene - worth the price of admission. :-)


Post# 42237 , Reply# 1   6/1/2008 at 21:59 (5,779 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        

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More on that turquoise drum thing later...

Carl & Debbie & I had so much fun. Carl insisted I take along this Premier Duplex. Here's some shots in the motel room after I shook out the bag in the parking lot...and vacuumed it clean.

All the parts are there, it simply need tender loving care to come back to the Land of Useful and Purty.


Post# 42238 , Reply# 2   6/1/2008 at 22:00 (5,779 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        

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This 3 wheeler's motor runs nice and smooth, as Tom can attest.

Post# 42240 , Reply# 3   6/1/2008 at 22:01 (5,779 days old) by petek (Ontario)        

Oh darn I wished I knew you were heading thru.. I'd have given you some stuff to take. I've been out of touch sorta because my older sister has taken a bad turn on Friday and is in the hospital so I've been back and forth visiting, to and fro'ing mom home and back etc. etc.

Post# 42241 , Reply# 4   6/1/2008 at 22:05 (5,779 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        

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Sunday morning after a hearty breakfast it was off to see Tom, Heather and Glenn. Tom & I headed straight for the basement where I peppered him with the usual questions he can so readily answer.

Goodness, we read about and see pictures of Tom's Total Hoover display but to see them in person!!! Oh, you most fortunate Convention attendees...

Noontime and off we go a-thrifting...

Long story short, the trick is to look under tables and inside furniture drawers. And anything that resembles a hose at 100 paces is usually attached to something of interest. Get digging!



Post# 42243 , Reply# 5   6/1/2008 at 22:14 (5,779 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        

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Very alarming to hear about your sister, Pete. The trip came up so fast I had to move fast. You'll have to go to the Convention now. Tom is expecking you...and Dean would love the Stan Hywet Gardens & many other sites while you indulge in Vacuum Camraderie.

I'm planning to cross back by the ferry on Monday morning and will naturally veer toward Sarnia. Don't have the cell phone with me so I'll call and if you're in, you're in. I'll keep you informed of itinerary timing with fast notes here rather than email.


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Post# 42245 , Reply# 6   6/1/2008 at 22:20 (5,779 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        
Yikes, it's 11PM and almost bedtime!

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So, without further ado...the thrifting finds.

Yes, that is a second Roll-Easy!!! Tome hailed me to the back of a room to see an Airway 55 and something else. I spotted this in the darkl shadows under a table. I let out a whoop and swung it up into view. Be still my beating bursting heart!!!

A Hoover Auto Drive and a GE Electric knife in box.

I'll let Tom tell the Playskool lawnmower tale. :-)


Post# 42246 , Reply# 7   6/1/2008 at 22:23 (5,779 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        

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Tom admiring the Roll-Easy in the back room of the store having plugged it in.

Stickered at $24 ( a steal!!!) it became $17 at the register on half price Sunday. Somebody pinch me.


Post# 42247 , Reply# 8   6/1/2008 at 22:31 (5,779 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        

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The Auto Drive back in the motel room. I like it! Needs a little tlc to tune up the transmission engagement lever and new belts.

I think this was a Goodwill find. While there we engaged in conversation with Elfrieda/Elthena (? Tom?), who noticed these two fellers practically dismantling the vacuum on the floor at the back of the store. A retired lady of some 25 years service at the Hoover Company who has so many stories to tell as well as confirming factory insider things Tom has deduced over the years.


Post# 42248 , Reply# 9   6/1/2008 at 22:37 (5,779 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        

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Back home we headed down to the basement again, this time with the Vac-O-Meter I had brought along. We tested suction -the Roll-Easy pulls 59" - then Tom figured out how to use the electrical testing section of the meter.

You plug the vacuum cord into the lower left receptacle and turn on the vacuum - tho it does not start up - which completes an internal circuit and the test lamp lights up. Flipping the toggle switch to TEST starts the vacuum and the amp meter gives a load reading as the motor runs. very cool. So we tested out a few vacuums...


Post# 42249 , Reply# 10   6/1/2008 at 22:42 (5,779 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        

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In the Gifting Department Tom generously assembled a TOL Hoover 28 aluminum tool set and hose (still passes the palm thump test!) and an extra set of wands for my Canadian 281. If you recall my Mrs. Townshend 281 has all Bakelite tools and a petrified hose. Awwww shucks, what a guy.

Post# 42251 , Reply# 11   6/1/2008 at 22:49 (5,779 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        

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The Hoover Building perfectly sunlit as sunset approaches on my way back to the motel to play with vacuums and prepare for whatever Monday holds for roving Dr Davy.

First thing after breakfast I'm heading to an open air flea market Tom has told me about on my way north to Akron to Stan Hywet and thence to Sandusky and Cedar Point Roller Coaster Park.


Post# 42253 , Reply# 12   6/1/2008 at 22:56 (5,779 days old) by petek (Ontario)        

Are you gonna be coming this way on Monday or Tuesday, I'm cornfused now if you're going to Cedar Point on Monday etc.

Post# 42255 , Reply# 13   6/1/2008 at 23:13 (5,779 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        
Purty!

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Back in the motel room, the $17 Roll-Easy version 3 augmented with aluminum wand, late double action floor nozzle. Note that the Hoover Hose has at least the authentic aluminum Roll-Easy ends and not the chrome Swiveltop ends. Well, we are in Hoover Country, after all. :-)

We think the gray cord is a GE replacement as I usually see Roll-Easys with blue/gray or turquoise cords. This gray one is in excellent supple condition.

Beside other notable differences stemming from the GE Bean Counters, Version two/three is definitely narrower between the wheels than the convex barreled version one. I deduce that this was another material fabrication cost cutting measure allowable because the hose socket was re-positioned to the center. The bag clamp inside fitting to the left required more drum depth to accommodate the bag. The vacuum trails after you now instead of being canted and dragged as in the first version with the off center hose attachment. But it's still a heavy li'l sucker to be dragged up & down stairs and over thresholds; no wonder that original turquoise hoses are not to be found and no wonder the ends were simply swapped to any vaguely blueish colour matched available woven vinyl hose stock at the Repair Shops.

So, being introduced in 1957, does anyone know how long into the 1960s Roll-Easys were in production?


Post# 42258 , Reply# 14   6/1/2008 at 23:22 (5,779 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        

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Today is Sunday. Traveling to Cedar Point for Monday. Monday night motel somewhere in Michigan or Toledo. So I can thrift my way north to the ferry Tuesday morning. Unless the weather goes all to hell and I beadle back Sarnia way Monday night...

I'll check the weathercasts Monday morning before I leave.

Now its midnight and I wanna be up early to hit the flea market. Maybe Sandusky won't require as much time as I imagine. :-) It is a summer Monday and I may find Cedar Point too much bother. Regardless, I intend to take the return trip wandering scenic two lane blacktops along the Erie shoreline to Toledo, at least.


Post# 42260 , Reply# 15   6/1/2008 at 23:27 (5,779 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        

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Oh crap. 80% thunderstorms for Tuesday beginning Monday late late night. Pete, since I'm only 6 hours from home at this point I'm leaning now toward making my way all the way to the ferry by sunset tomorrow - Monday. Stay tuned...

Post# 42261 , Reply# 16   6/1/2008 at 23:43 (5,779 days old) by normvac (COLUMBUS, OHIO)        

Dave, You have had the scenic and the lucky tour of N.E. and
Northern Ohio. Love your G.E. find. You are a dedicated
collector and lover of the thrill of the find!
It's always a good time visiting with Tom and family. I'm hoping to head that way again before the first of Aug.
So I'm taking it by your writing that you will NOT be able
to join us in Aug. for the convention?
Stan Hywet hall is awesome, have been there twice for Car Shows. It was one of the First homes that had it's interior
designed by an interior designer. Like the Ford and Dodge
homes in Gross Point Mi. Neat and fun place to visit!
Norm Brown


Post# 42262 , Reply# 17   6/1/2008 at 23:51 (5,779 days old) by camelotshadow (Valley Village)        
You went to visit the Holy Hoover Grail!

Way to go Dave

That roll easy
Wow, bet your eyes lit up
I know mine sure did!

What a trip
& you got to meet Tom!!!!

Wow

Congrats


Post# 42277 , Reply# 18   6/2/2008 at 06:08 (5,778 days old) by arh1953 ( River Park, in Port St. Lucie, Florida)        
A $17.00 Roll-Easy in a thrift shop?? Somebody kick me!

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I got my convex Roll-Easy for free!! Of course, I had to pay the delivery costs, which was still a good deal for me. Now I'm waiting for two surprises in the mail, I can't bear the suspense! The side trips and the historic sites are something I would love to see in person. Maybe someday...

Post# 42284 , Reply# 19   6/2/2008 at 06:44 (5,778 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        

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Yes Tom and Alan. the Roll-Easy was a thunderclap shock to the system. Whodathunkit?

As my 3rd Roll-Easy I'll call it a spare...for now, til more parts come to ground in the future. It's seen a lot of use, is a little banged up and has interior rust beginning in the drum but, it does have the aluminum hose ends, which my version one does not - it came with chrome Swiveltop hose and are the ends I used with the turquoise Flo-Bee hose. Now all will be right as rain.

No secret here - what I picked up on the Farm from Debbie in those boxes is a complete version 2 Roll-Easy w wands & toolset in showroom condition, plus about 40 bags, two superb(swiveltop} woven hoses, two electric cords (one blue/green and one unwrapped turq.}...and...two late GE turquoise double action floor tools, so I have one for the 3rd R-1. In addition one of the floor tools has a copper clad elbow for version 2 Roll-Easys when it replaced the flipover floortool! Can one believe the Twingle just knew there was an under equipped Roll-Easy to be unearthed in North Canton?

Anyway, there is a huge storm cell moving across the midwest again and its due to hit the eastern shores of Michigan Monday early evening. Predictions are for serious thunder storms, high winds and a week of rain. No fun for driving when I could be safely home vacuumizing my last day off on Tuesday.

So Pete, I am making my scenic thrifting/flea marketing way to the ferry by sunset today, will call when I find a handy pay phone and come on by if it's ok. Can be home well before midnight or heck, why not... thrift my way across Sarnia & area on Tuesday. :-)


Post# 42297 , Reply# 20   6/2/2008 at 07:40 (5,778 days old) by arh1953 ( River Park, in Port St. Lucie, Florida)        
You have THREE Roll-Easys?

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I know about the one your co-worker/friends got you but I have mentally misplaced number two. I am in such a state for the last year you would have to plug me into a light socket to get a remote twingle out of me. But seeing a Roll-Easy in any of my haunts would see me move quickly for sure. And with tools? Dave's fab luck again!

Post# 42298 , Reply# 21   6/2/2008 at 07:51 (5,778 days old) by arh1953 ( River Park, in Port St. Lucie, Florida)        
Yay for Dave!

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Ok, number two is the farm find with all the trimmings, number three is the North Canton sans tools. Family grew within a day or two, I thought I was cooking with gas with two in 6 weeks!

Post# 42300 , Reply# 22   6/2/2008 at 09:01 (5,778 days old) by hoover_elite_20 ()        

That Hoover Auto Drive is in beautiful condition! I used to have a tan one like that. Great find!

Post# 42319 , Reply# 23   6/2/2008 at 12:12 (5,778 days old) by charles~richard ()        

Sad to say, on this 100th Birthday...

Post# 42322 , Reply# 24   6/2/2008 at 12:49 (5,778 days old) by swingette ()        

Leave it to Charles to rub salt in the wound...

Post# 42325 , Reply# 25   6/2/2008 at 12:57 (5,778 days old) by charles~richard ()        

Or, better done:

Post# 42327 , Reply# 26   6/2/2008 at 13:00 (5,778 days old) by charles~richard ()        

Why would you say that, Swingette? (Notwithstanding your tendency to say such things...)

Do you think I am any less sad than anyone else? Perhaps this "Photoshop Obituary" is MY way of mourning the loss.

Why do you always seem to glom onto (falsely) perceived negative dynamics of what other people say?

My "Revised Hoover Lettering" essay was meant as a Sad Commentary, not "rubbing salt in someone's wounds."

Don't take it so personally.



Post# 42343 , Reply# 27   6/2/2008 at 18:17 (5,778 days old) by arh1953 ( River Park, in Port St. Lucie, Florida)        
Hoover bits

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Here's the Hoover Spirit with the powerhead:

Post# 42345 , Reply# 28   6/2/2008 at 18:34 (5,778 days old) by charles~richard ()        
My oldest functional Hoover...

A model 541. I also have a 102 and a 105 in un-restored condition.


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Post# 42353 , Reply# 29   6/2/2008 at 19:28 (5,778 days old) by petek (Ontario)        

It's 8:30 PM.. anyone know where Dave is?

Me thinks he may be coastering at Cedar Point


Post# 42355 , Reply# 30   6/2/2008 at 19:36 (5,778 days old) by arh1953 ( River Park, in Port St. Lucie, Florida)        

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I like that 541 Charles, and yes, where is Dave?

Post# 42359 , Reply# 31   6/2/2008 at 19:47 (5,778 days old) by petek (Ontario)        

I just posted that above a few minutes ago.. went up the stairs and there (here) he is LOL


Post# 42368 , Reply# 32   6/2/2008 at 21:08 (5,778 days old) by myhooverco ()        

Dave...

Thanks for stopping by yesterday. It was a lot of fun doing some thrifting. You were a very lucky guy to go home with TWO Roll Easys! This just goes to show you that you just never know what can be found if you get out there and look! Thank you Dave too for dinner Sunday evening.

The plastic lawnmower is a funny story. Heather ran over Glenn's toy mower. He was devastated totally. I just do not know how she managed to miss that bright red and yellow toy in the green grass. Anyway, Dave and I found the exact same toy mower at a thrift store (the same one that had the Roll Easy) and it cost me a whole $4. Glenn is happily "mowing" the grass again now.

I had a blast playing with Dave's "VacUTronic". I will have to find one of these gizmoes for myself.

Thanks again Dave for stopping by to visit. Congrats on your finds.

--Tom


Post# 42402 , Reply# 33   6/3/2008 at 01:30 (5,778 days old) by badata ()        

Tom.................yes....please do tell us how Heather missed seeing this toy....ESPECIALLY in the grass.....(doesn't she know she is suppose to be on the concrete???) LOL....I miss seeing you guys....you both are a lot of fun!!!!!

Post# 42423 , Reply# 34   6/3/2008 at 06:48 (5,777 days old) by arh1953 ( River Park, in Port St. Lucie, Florida)        
Mystery solved, and

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Wow, that's a gorgeous brick house your neighbors have there Pete!

Post# 42453 , Reply# 35   6/3/2008 at 10:50 (5,777 days old) by kirbyultimateg (Troy Ohio 45373 USA)        

You crossed the line CharlesRichard!


Post# 42458 , Reply# 36   6/3/2008 at 11:12 (5,777 days old) by petek (Ontario)        

The Dave and his Subaru are once again headed eastward with instructions on where the local GoodWill is located wherein lurks a blue/white metal bodied Eureka I saw there yesterday and left for him to snag. As well hopefully still a Rainbow awaits further down the byway in the next little town

Post# 42463 , Reply# 37   6/3/2008 at 11:34 (5,777 days old) by petek (Ontario)        

An astute person will notice and wonder why I would leave a metal Eureka and worser yet a Rainbow and not grab them myself!!!

Because I'm vacuum saturated is why. LOL


Post# 42515 , Reply# 38   6/3/2008 at 18:44 (5,777 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        
Home and Car unburdened - dinners heating up...

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Just started raining but I did manage to get the traditional obligatory driveway Beauty Shot. But not the U.S.A stuff - that was hustled inside the house as the first drops began to spatter down. Later...

Here we see what got tossed in the car on the Canadian side only, and came out of the car first.

I did find the places, Pete. Left the Eureka behind. However...

Found a nice miniature Vornado Fan at Value Village for 3.99. Always wanted one but could never find a nice one. This one is perfect. Speed control dial on the back of the motor pod, no bent grill bars. I think it didn't sell because folks would plug it in and it didn't turn. That was only because the original plug had an internal wire separation. I pressed the cord into the plug head and of course, it ran. So I took it to the counter, showed them how it would not run and got it for a dollar.. Just put a replacement plug on it and its on the floor beside be silently whipping up a blasting breeze. Whee!

I guess we can all identify the rest of the stuff...

A GE floor polisher with the cord cut off from curbside trash in Pete's neighborhood. He told me about seeing it when I arrived yesterday so we drove around and I tossed it in. Thing is, I have this polisher but not with such a nice handle.

The usual ubiquitous Kenmore canister with taped up power hose I drove past on the St Clair River road from the ferry landing to Pete's house.

Pete gave me the Dial-a-matic and the Hoover Windtunnel. Missing its bagless dust jug it was destined for the trash. I took it to salvage the cord and tools and bitz. Nice hose material, too. Then I will trash it. But wait...it has double counter-rotating brushes. ??? wtf? I'm sitting here thinking I will get the double brush head running then graft it on to a more worthy bagged Hoover upright. Just for good cheap fun LOL

So, the Raindow D3 is quite nice with both wand sets, two hoses, one with the power cord for the power nozzle. Only the floor brush and the sprayer with it, tho. Both hoses have taped repairs at one end but that's easy to slice off and rescrew into the affected end. It was different enough from my d$ that I couldn't just leave it there in Petrolia.

Pete, I spent two hours taking the full tour of the Petrolia heritage site. You follow that road by the bridge back through the park and emerge in a large working oil firld. Theyhvae moved several ancient buildings back there and have a full working 1870s Oil pumping setup, with the shaker lines running from the power house out to 8 pumps around the property, that has huge great flywheels and belts as well as a working carpentry shop running off overhead pulleys and belts. very impressive place and only $5 gets you the full walking tour. Well, I was the only person there besides the very well informed lad, home from University, that conducts the tour. The buildings have been set out like a small village, with a church and a schoolhouse, all moved there 10 years ago. I'lll have to make a new thread all about my visit there. Highly recomended tourist stop. better than the displays at Oil City in north western Pennsylvania. And its a documented fact that Canada can rightfully claim the first successful well as well as the first gusher to be tapped in North America - by a six month lead. :-)

Up front, a selection of vacuum tools including the weirdly shaped SEARS white crevice tool, a turquoise Compact crevice tool to match the upholstery nozzle from Pete, and in front of that, a dark green/black two piece Bakelite Demother of unknown brand...the larger end has a small keyway like for a Compact. But the bore and opposite tapered end are too small for the standard wands like Compact, Airway or Electrolux.

Rainbow guy threw in the Westinghouse hand vac, as it has no cord nor belt access cap. I have this same model with w rotted bag and bristless brush so I am pleased to have this parts donor vacuum.

So, that's the end-of-trek Canadian side haul.


Post# 42517 , Reply# 39   6/3/2008 at 18:52 (5,777 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        
Tools close up

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The white floor nozzle in front of the DAM - don't know what its from but it is enameled cast aluminum with a sprung wood brush strip, rollers and a rubber bump guard. Cast in boxed intitials are FSP.

Post# 42518 , Reply# 40   6/3/2008 at 18:53 (5,777 days old) by petek (Ontario)        

Ok. how much did he want for that Rainbow, I hope he didn't scalp you.. I'd forgotten all about that little Westinghouse, it's been in there forever.

Post# 42519 , Reply# 41   6/3/2008 at 18:53 (5,777 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        

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The aforementioned Eureka with blue trims still at Sarnia Goodwill.

Post# 42520 , Reply# 42   6/3/2008 at 18:55 (5,777 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        

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Talked him down to $30 for Rainbow and all those odd tool bits and Westinghouse free.

Post# 42521 , Reply# 43   6/3/2008 at 19:20 (5,777 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        
I must correct a mistake here.

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I gave the wrong name for Debbie's husband. It's Debbie and Eric Staufer, with one F. :-)

Here's Debbie with her favorite quicker picker upper.

On Monday, after going to the Hartsville Giant Flea Market Tom sent me to (Tom, did you get the package I placed in your mailbox?) and doing a fast tour of the Stan Hywet Gardens in full bloom...and wanting to get to Sandusky & outrun the coming storm system, I realized I was almost back at Debbie's as I diagonaled toward Sandusky. So I stopped there briefly to tell them my lucky tale of finding another Roll-Easy...and get Eric's correct name.

They are totally taken with the VCCC website and forum and indicated they were planning to come by the Convention.

(and so, as embarrassing and off-putting as the extended behaviour exhibited about the Photoshop joke is, I am glad it has perpetuated itself in a separate thread than this happy one, which introduced two potential new members to what I was trumpeting as a great group of enthusiastically positive Hobby people. I do hope the Staufers will not be dissuaded.)


Post# 42522 , Reply# 44   6/3/2008 at 19:22 (5,777 days old) by arh1953 ( River Park, in Port St. Lucie, Florida)        

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I've got that funkified white Sears crevice tool on my cheapie Kenmore, it's a pretty machine. I love your Dial-A-Matic and all the other bits are pretty tasty too.

Post# 42525 , Reply# 45   6/3/2008 at 19:42 (5,777 days old) by charles~richard ()        

...and so, as embarrassing and off-putting as the extended behaviour exhibited about the Photoshop joke is....


The Photoshop art was NOT a JOKE. It was intended as a sad and jarring commentary on what has gone on with the Hoover Company.

I'm not going to continue going on about this, but I do need to make that clarification. I really must make sure that that is clear in everyone's minds.

Thank you.



Post# 42533 , Reply# 46   6/3/2008 at 20:43 (5,777 days old) by kirbyultimateg (Troy Ohio 45373 USA)        

I am talking about The Former Home Of Hoover Appliances picture CharlesRichard.


Post# 42550 , Reply# 47   6/3/2008 at 23:19 (5,777 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        
Heather ran over Glenn's toy mower...

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Actually, as I understand it, Heather ran over Glenn's mower with her Lawn Mower...the gas one with the really sharp whirling blade...and shredded off the front corner. :-)

Post# 42579 , Reply# 48   6/4/2008 at 06:43 (5,776 days old) by countryguy (Astorville, ON, Canada)        

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The white floor nozzle in front of the DAM is from an older Kenmore canister.

Post# 42580 , Reply# 49   6/4/2008 at 06:46 (5,776 days old) by arh1953 ( River Park, in Port St. Lucie, Florida)        

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I'm glad Glenn has his little mower back, what a lucky find!

Post# 42583 , Reply# 50   6/4/2008 at 07:14 (5,776 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        

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Thanks Gary...Certainly have a few Kenmores around here. and so can I assume the two other white SEARS tools came probably from the same vacuum?

Now about that lovely green bakelite mothamizerlator...


Post# 42595 , Reply# 51   6/4/2008 at 11:04 (5,776 days old) by countryguy (Astorville, ON, Canada)        

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Yes I think they did!

Post# 42611 , Reply# 52   6/4/2008 at 12:45 (5,776 days old) by kirbyultimateg (Troy Ohio 45373 USA)        

I am sorry.


Post# 42616 , Reply# 53   6/4/2008 at 13:23 (5,776 days old) by petek (Ontario)        

The funny shaped crevice tool slides into a wide slot on the side of the Kenmores. It doesn't sit on top with the other tools

Post# 42640 , Reply# 54   6/4/2008 at 17:26 (5,776 days old) by arh1953 ( River Park, in Port St. Lucie, Florida)        

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Anyone see that beautiful but not completely original Roll-Easy on eBay? I'm not posting a link, but what a sight it is!

Post# 42646 , Reply# 55   6/4/2008 at 21:15 (5,776 days old) by camelotshadow (Valley Village)        
Nice vac

Seems there r many roll easy fans

Guess, I';ll never try that one
but I got a few nice gems & happy to have them in my collection


Post# 42647 , Reply# 56   6/4/2008 at 21:16 (5,776 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        

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Thanks for the heads-up, Alan. Unoriginal partz include the tools, chrome wands and hose from a Swiveltop. Naturally I am watching it with great interest. 5 days to go and its already hit $200 in 21 bids. This one will be the record setter, I expect.

Makes mine look like a genuine bargain, as mine has at least the correct wands & tools, doubles of some accessories, about a decade's worth of bags and didn't hit $200 until 46 bids just over one day to auction end.

Canister is in great condition, tho, as this pic from the auction notice shows. which is basically what I got for another $14 ovber the weekend. LOL



Post# 42650 , Reply# 57   6/4/2008 at 21:39 (5,776 days old) by vintageroyal611 ()        

Dave If you want to sell or trade for that beautiful Hoover Auto Drive I would definitely be interested as that is one of the Elite clones I've been looking for for a while. Shoot me an email.

Post# 42656 , Reply# 58   6/4/2008 at 22:41 (5,776 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        

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Gosh Matt, sorry. I really want to keep this one as it represents the next Power Drive iteration after the Concept, in a sleek enclosed bag case with on board tools and hose. Tom said that he would get it if I didn't so that clued me in to what a keeper it is. Nice rounded square design before they went all 'bar-of-soap/astronaut helmet organic' & cheaper made.

This one was very well used - has way worn down brushroll, will need new belts but mainly it needs a new cable - this one is metal fatigue snapped off at the lever mount on the motor.

Did a quick&dirty join last night and got it shifting but that cable is now only hanging by a few strands.


Post# 42660 , Reply# 59   6/4/2008 at 23:08 (5,776 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        
The only thing original to this late R1 is the cord.

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Notice that the double action floor unit is much more pale green than turquoise. Like the the hose and wands, from a Swiveltop or Reach Easy, I think.

The crevice, dusting and upholstery tools have absorbed a lot of atmosphere aging and are in fact for the wider Version 1 concave Roll-Easy, not this later convex version. They should be ribbed with lettering along the sides. Especially noticeable in the shapes of the crevice tools.

But, aRoll-Easy is a Roll-Easy is a Roll-Easy...and I still think a rare bird and as such, any Roll-Easy is a find. :-)

I have both manuals.


Post# 42661 , Reply# 60   6/4/2008 at 23:19 (5,776 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        
Another tool dating picture.

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Note that the first version tools have an internal groove for the latch and 4 half round cutouts for the latch button, to lock the tool in 90 degree increments.

The later tools have 4 cutout latch rectangles to the same purpose and the button does not contact the tool.

Another example of GE cost cutting, the later tools have thinner walls & have less material in them and I suppose as they were developed they were simply packaged with your new Roll-Easy


Post# 42662 , Reply# 61   6/4/2008 at 23:27 (5,776 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        

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These are the late Roll-Easy turquoise tools, that in a multitude of colors (avocado green, olive green, dark green, pale blue, burgundy, white, yellow, etc) came with the Swiveltops and Reach Easys.

Post# 42686 , Reply# 62   6/5/2008 at 05:28 (5,775 days old) by arh1953 ( River Park, in Port St. Lucie, Florida)        

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Dave, thanks for those delicious Roll-Easy pictures! I noticed all the things you did too, except for the three tools. I need just about everything for mine, but I love them just as much as the show pieces.


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