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Kirby DS50 Outer bag
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Post# 43167   6/8/2008 at 21:11 (5,793 days old) by mattshaver ()        

Hey everyone, after a absence, I'm back. My 6 year old Beagle Molly lost her battle with cancer and it's been very rough. Now that she is in heaven, I can concentrate my work back on restoring my Grandma's Kirby DS50. I have some questions:

1. Where can I find an outer bag to match the exact one. I know there are tan ones out there but they are not the same. Any thought as to where I could get one, or are the pretty much gone and the newer tan ones are left.

2. A lot of the rubber parts are riveted onto pieces. How do you get them off other than drilling through them. Is this standard practice of drilling into the rivet and then re-revetting rubber pieces together again?

3. What do you soak pieces of the Kirby in? I'd like to take many of the metal pieces and do a good bath soak in my bath tub before shining them up, what do you all use that will not pit the metal.

Any help would be so appreciated. I have a spare DS50 for parts, but some of the rubber and plastic pieces as well as the outer bag and cord, brushroll and wheels will need to be replaced.

I'll try and get some picts up soon,
Matt :-)


Post# 43297 , Reply# 1   6/9/2008 at 21:24 (5,792 days old) by sbnhvlvr (South Bend, IN)        

Matt,

Try this link, I replaced my DS50 bag with one of these. Or Try Calling Kirby maybe they a stash of the old sytle bags.


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Post# 43301 , Reply# 2   6/9/2008 at 21:27 (5,792 days old) by sbnhvlvr (South Bend, IN)        

Here is what the replacement bag looks like, also replaced the cord.

Post# 43303 , Reply# 3   6/9/2008 at 21:32 (5,792 days old) by sbnhvlvr (South Bend, IN)        

Matt,

These guys carry a wide selection of items for DS50


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Post# 43304 , Reply# 4   6/9/2008 at 21:34 (5,792 days old) by sbnhvlvr (South Bend, IN)        

This site may help also.

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Post# 43329 , Reply# 5   6/9/2008 at 23:43 (5,792 days old) by charles~richard ()        

btw, you stated "outer bag" ... I hope you realize this is a shake-out type bag, emptied by dumping the dirt out of the Sani-Emptor trap door at the bottom. There was no "inner bag."



Post# 43336 , Reply# 6   6/10/2008 at 00:19 (5,791 days old) by camelotshadow (Valley Village)        
Yep, Charles is correct

Ye shake out
so you got to have clean house before you vacuum
or t least clean dirt

LOL

I think Kirby did encourage emptying of the unit after every pick up.

That's what I do anyway as I like to see what goodies ye Kirby has ingested

LOL

Kirby hasn't made the original type bag in least 25 years

I got a original bag on one of mine rest are the later 80's looser spaced ovals.

Reminds me I have to get one or 2 of them D50s together with the best of the best & let the rest go back into the Kirby pool.

I've become a bit dirt phobic with the shake outs
not something you want to rely on as a daily driver
but those sweet small nozzles
those machines are great & built to last

they make crap these days

Royal was the last to be making that quality thriugh the 80's & even 90's

Sorry bout your doggy

Neighbors doggy had foot cancer
they saved it by cutting off a leg
Now it has 3
doesn't seem to mind at all
guess that's like a shake out bag
It works


Post# 43464 , Reply# 7   6/11/2008 at 11:02 (5,790 days old) by mattshaver ()        
Thanks...

Unless I find an original one, I may have to go with the lighter tan one. The issue is the zipper on the original one is toast. Wonder if I could sew in a new one. Hmmm....or just get a new outer bag.

Although, if I wash this outer bag in my front loading washer, will it come apart or is the dirt holding it together.

Matt :-)



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