Thread Number: 13236
FINALLY, a New Vacuum |
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Post# 140840   6/24/2011 at 21:51 (4,977 days old) by bagintheback ![]() |
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Today was a big thrifting day. My grandpa and I went over to a grand opening of a new Goodwill in Mesa. The store was packed. They had a radio station booth and people were passing out ads. There were almost no park spots, and this is in a large shopping center. I have never been in a store this packed. As we make squeeze our way to the electric area, I see a new early-2000s Hoover Bagless. For those you don't know, it's basically a Hoover Soft-Guard with a Twin-Chamber dust cup. It was in great shape and had a new brush roll. $20. I pulled it around the store but realized I'd have to buy a new filter and if I didn't like it I couldn't sell it easly, or make any money. So I left it. Plus the lines were insane. I've always wanted the purple version, but this was the more popular green model, so I'm not disappointed. We stopped into a record store next door and headed home.
After we eat lunch, we went out to our favorite thrift store and found no vacuums. My grandpa wanted to get a $15 current-model Hoover Floormate to clean his floors, but the brushes were too dirty for me. The filter needed to be replaced as well. We didn't want to spend money on that. He found a Sony dual-deck Cassette player there though, so not terrible. Next we made our way over to a Goodwill there my grandpa has found alot of records, so we keep that store high on our list. There was an 80s Panasonic Jet-Flow that I thought about buying. $10. It had these spinning brushes to edge-clean that I thought was cool. But the bag was stuffed and smelled like a cat had thrown-up in it so I didn't even turn it on. Plus it was extremely similar to my Riccar 8000s series, so that finished my interest in it. Last Goodwill before going back home. I've found one Eureka there a year ago, that I regret selling, but we check back 'just in case'. And I'm so glad we did! My grandpa started to look at the electronics while I went to the vacuums. There were the regular Chinese/Mexico Wal-Mart vacs there, but one thing caught my eye. A KIRBY TRADITION! I showed my grandpa and he was also impressed. We plugged it in and it sounds perfect. My grandpa even said while explaining the purchase to my mom that the sound of the motor is like listing to music. So I got it. I'm so glad I passed on the two other vacuums! This is my first thrift store find, and vintage vacuum find, since February. Even more amazing is that even store had vacuums worth thinking about, and at reasonable prices. Most of time there is nothing, although I have passed on things recently like a Eureka 1934a that I should have bought. |
Post# 140841 , Reply# 1   6/24/2011 at 21:54 (4,977 days old) by bagintheback ![]() |
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Post# 140844 , Reply# 2   6/24/2011 at 21:57 (4,977 days old) by bagintheback ![]() |
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Post# 140845 , Reply# 3   6/24/2011 at 21:58 (4,977 days old) by vacman117 (Chicago, IL)   |   | |
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Post# 140849 , Reply# 5   6/24/2011 at 22:03 (4,977 days old) by bagintheback ![]() |
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Although there was an almost empty bag, I did dump out the Em-Tor and found a huge amount of green lint, dog hair and grit that did not make it to the bag. I took a picture but it somehow got deleted, but the dirt was stuffed up the fill tube and the motor still sounded normal. That's the durability of a Kirby! Let see a Dyson do that!
I really like the bag docking system. Very nice and I like it better than Oreck's. ![]() |
Post# 140850 , Reply# 6   6/24/2011 at 22:03 (4,977 days old) by twocvbloke ()   |   | |
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Just a note, there was a shake-out bag option, AND, if you pop out the filltube assembly, you can apparently use the full zip bag as a shake-out, not that I'd recommend it cos it could get messy... :) |
Post# 140852 , Reply# 7   6/24/2011 at 22:04 (4,977 days old) by bagintheback ![]() |
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Post# 140853 , Reply# 8   6/24/2011 at 22:08 (4,977 days old) by bagintheback ![]() |
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Post# 140855 , Reply# 9   6/24/2011 at 22:13 (4,977 days old) by bagintheback ![]() |
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There's a picture of the new Goodwill bar code sticker. I'm not sure if this a nation-wide thing but I don't like it. It makes the store seem more corporate.
I'd also like to remove to remove em-tor and bag so I can polish the em-tor and wash the bag, if it won't destroy the bag. The em-tor won't come off! Any suggestions? ![]() |
Post# 140860 , Reply# 11   6/24/2011 at 22:50 (4,977 days old) by bagintheback ![]() |
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Post# 140863 , Reply# 12   6/24/2011 at 22:56 (4,977 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)   |   | |
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Word of warning!
Tradition bags bleed Blue Dye like a gored alien as soon as they hit the warm or worse - hot - water and I'm not talking a mere tint. It's more like a fountain pen ink cartridge or Bank Bag Dyepack exploded. The best way to clean a Tradition bag is to vacuum the bejeezus out of it inside out, beat it against the rocks and leave it. If you do decide to 'wash' it, fill the bathtub with COLD water, lay it down inside out without swishing it about, let it soak a few minutes lifting it out to drip as you change the water until the soaking produces no more brown water, then hang it wet - without wringing it damp - to dry outside on the clothesline. The color fade will be minimal. There is a school of thought that washing a Kirby bag causes the doubleweave pores to shrink and the inner napped surface to felt. There is some truth to this but I have never found it to be particularly restrictive to airflow or fine powderdust accumulation as long as a proper paper inner bag is used...and of course one should never subject any vintage thick-napped vacuum bag to a washing machine's pounding agitation nor use a tumble dryer. That would be like doing the same thing to a new wool sweater. If the bag is stained do not scrub-brush the spots vigourously as this will leave very noticeable faded patches where you scrubbed. Dave |
Post# 140864 , Reply# 13   6/24/2011 at 22:58 (4,977 days old) by thevacuumman (Borger, TX)   |   | |
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Post# 140902 , Reply# 15   6/25/2011 at 11:55 (4,976 days old) by bagintheback ![]() |
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