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Post# 96765   4/21/2010 at 23:09 (5,089 days old) by electrolux~137 ()   |   | |
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Look at THIS gnarly beast!! CLICK HERE TO GO TO electrolux~137's LINK on eBay |
Post# 96812 , Reply# 1   4/22/2010 at 12:25 (5,088 days old) by sireluxomatic ()   |   | |
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Reminds me of the "souped-up" vacuum cleaner on an episode of the 80's British sitcom "The Young Ones" that actually ate the floorboards. :) |
Post# 96971 , Reply# 3   4/24/2010 at 21:18 (5,086 days old) by caligula (Wallingford, Connecticut)   |   | |
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You got that right, this "surface" machine is a sander not a vacuum cleaner. I made the same mistake when I was ten and fell in love with this machine. If I wasn't so fascinated with Electrolux's and Kirby's, who knows, I may have become a carpenter. If that were the case there would have not been a Vacuum Cleaner Collector's Club, but a sander and power tool club. However, I must add here that vacuum cleaners and power tools do share one thing in common. James B. Kirby! When Jim Kirby developed an upright that he called the 'Broomstick' in 1910 he was helped with three men. I forget the first names, but they were messers Black, Decker and Lamb. Black and Decker went on to perfect power tools and Lamb, of course gave us the Lamb motor. In a few weeks I will have all my files that are in storage, then I will be able to check facts that right now are commited to memory. Alex Taber |
Post# 97105 , Reply# 4   4/26/2010 at 18:26 (5,084 days old) by portable (Corvallis, OR)   |   | |
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Post# 97110 , Reply# 5   4/26/2010 at 19:25 (5,084 days old) by 1926700 ()   |   | |
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i would NEVER be able to use that BEAST! thats just too big, its bad enough using a kirby classic III, beacuse its so wide. i coulnt even fit that into my house nunless use it. |