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Thread Number: 3902
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| Post# 44513 6/21/2008 at 21:02 (5,785 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
Rained most of the day and in fact we had hail the size of raspberries between 4 & 5 o'clock. I had the morn & afternoon free so headed over 45 minutes west to Mitchell, which was having its town-wide garage sale. Naturally because of the rain there wasn't much happening but then the sun appeared for about 2 hours and as I was rounding a corner I spotted this. Gosh, that looks awfully new! Hardly used at all? 'Yeah, well it stopped sucking, my husband looked at it and said it was broke for good & bought me a new one but the motor still runs. So I figured I'd put it out for a few bucks today because I'd have to pay to leave it with the weekly garbage. Someone might be able to use the parts. Ok, here's your $2. (Dave tosses it in the car and drives away smiling.) No more vacs to be found around Mitchell, it's clouding over fast so head for home and arrive in Stratford in the hailstorm. Well, I couldn't very well leave it behind to be butchered for its cord, could I? Its complete with all its tools and a lovely calm shade of blue/gray/lavender with sparkles in the plastic. 
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| Post# 44514 , Reply# 1 6/21/2008 at 21:12 (5,785 days old) by vintagehoover () | ||
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It's hard to tell from that angle, but I think we had that model (or one very similar) over here as an Electrolux... | ||
| Post# 44515 , Reply# 2 6/21/2008 at 21:13 (5,785 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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As usual, it gets better...
My gosh, at home this upright is clean as a whistle except for the HEPA box filter. The dust cup is an new thing to me - cast from what seems to be hard & sturdy 1/4" thick foam material that breathes. But from the way the two piece cup attaches to the intake I believe a paper bag can be substituted!!!! Like a Pani Jet Flow type deal. Now the vacuum takes on more value... And what has caused this vacuum to stop sucking? A ping pong ball stuck halfway up the hose. ROTFLOL!!! A new belt and it runs great and quiet with a low assuring growl. Surprising suction through the hose. And you noticed that Eureka wand type static duster brush? and a 24" crevice tool inside the wand, and a dusting brush...and a Kenmore turbine Hand-i-mate Jr. 
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| Post# 44516 , Reply# 3 6/21/2008 at 21:14 (5,785 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 44517 , Reply# 4 6/21/2008 at 21:30 (5,785 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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Light works, brush roll & bearings clean. It's a narrow footprint with edge clean brushes. Really, nothing wrong with it other than that ping pong blockage. I've come to like these static dusters. All my feather dusters shed feathers and the cats luv to get ahold of them for shredding. I suspect this Kenmore is made by Eureka for Sears, as I have only seen this type of self-vacuuming duster on Eureka uprights. The Kenmore has classier shape and subtle color - Eureka's colors are so 'vibrant'. Here you can get a sense of its true color. Gunmetal Purple? Metalflake Eggpalnt? The bag compartment panel is molded from tinted see through plastic with metalflake in it while the body parts are solid color with the flakes. Purty & useful thingie. And after all, One vac out - one vac in. I gave the woodstock rescued navy blue Dirt Devil swivel caster bagged upright, with the triangular corner tool embedded in its belly, to a gal at work who has a male house tenant in Toronto with a dog and her house vacuum has given up. She wanted something with a paper bag as guys are too lazy to empty the bagless dust cup. I told her that was only bonehead straight guys that do that. Tho I'm sure boneheaded gay guys do too. :-) She's going to bring her Toronto vacuum to me for fixing or keeping or whatever... Tomorrow I will find a bag to fit this Kenmore, I swear. A type U maybe...or whatever the Jet-Flo uses. 
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| Post# 44522 , Reply# 5 6/21/2008 at 21:42 (5,785 days old) by piano_god (British Columbia, Canada) | ||
That is a Eureka Contour upright manufactured to Sears specs | ||
| Post# 44526 , Reply# 6 6/21/2008 at 21:44 (5,785 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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Thank you, Scott. | ||
| Post# 44528 , Reply# 7 6/21/2008 at 21:45 (5,785 days old) by petek (Ontario) | ||
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Yeah , remember seeing those things for sale as Eureka's at Walmart etc. hence they'd have been Electrolux across the pond. So much for the previous owners husbands skill. LOL | ||
| Post# 44555 , Reply# 8 6/21/2008 at 23:28 (5,785 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 44564 , Reply# 9 6/22/2008 at 03:13 (5,784 days old) by camelotshadow (Valley Village) | ||
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Cool vac worth 2 bucks LOL Kenmores are decent I have a progressive hepa similar to that but doesn't have the internal plastic bag holder It takes the 50690 or so if I remember correctly bags hard to find so I usually make others fit with the help of some tape altering | ||
Post# 44569 , Reply# 10 6/22/2008 at 04:40 (5,784 days old) by arh1953  ( River Park, in Port St. Lucie, Florida) |
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Passionate purple and light lavender | ||
| Post# 44610 , Reply# 11 6/22/2008 at 13:11 (5,784 days old) by camelotshadow (Valley Village) | ||
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Now I am wondering if my progressive is made by Eureka Has the same features though I think its a late 90's model Has the channels around the bag Takes a nice size bag Has the same hepa filter up front same light | ||
| Post# 44617 , Reply# 12 6/22/2008 at 14:54 (5,784 days old) by turbo500 (West Yorkshire, UK) | ||
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| Post# 44655 , Reply# 13 6/22/2008 at 17:54 (5,784 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 44658 , Reply# 14 6/22/2008 at 18:18 (5,784 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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Here the upgraded Contour 15" wide. Far as I can tell, ya get a turbo tool for your extra $20. Considering Sears sells the turbobrush alone for $39.99...well...I got the Kenmore for $2 so I think I got the Turbotool free. :-) The J bag has a fold over tab that engages the 'safety feature' lever. So I set the bagless canister aside, popped in a bag and vacuumed the upstairs. Quiet, light, maneuverable and left a real nice pattern on the nap without strakes. Suction at the hose measures 75", that is, until you block the 'safety' hole crudely drilled in the bottom of the bag compartment. (the 2 Eureks I examined have the same retro-drilled hole) Then the suction goes up to 90". Yeah, yeah, to prevent the motor overheating in the event of small animal ingestion...I'll be plugging that hole with a rubber grommet button. And I think we can all agree that the Kenmore looks much classier without all that printing and pointless labeling, right? 'Course I can see the bag printing through the tinted lid but when was that an unwanted thing to a collector? :-) Dave 
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| Post# 44664 , Reply# 15 6/22/2008 at 19:23 (5,784 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 44666 , Reply# 16 6/22/2008 at 20:18 (5,784 days old) by petek (Ontario) | ||
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Dave you have voicemail.. If you're off MOnday and not planned anything I may be able to drop by | ||
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