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Post# 15102   6/19/2007 at 09:01 (6,150 days old) by myvacsrock (USA)        

Hey guys! Chad visited my house a while back! My camera decided to work now! Here are lots of pics we took together! I hope you all enjoy~ chad can give you the story of his experance~~~i just post pics!!:)

Post# 15103 , Reply# 1   6/19/2007 at 09:02 (6,150 days old) by myvacsrock (USA)        

his group!

Post# 15104 , Reply# 2   6/19/2007 at 09:07 (6,150 days old) by myvacsrock (USA)        

505!!

Post# 15105 , Reply# 3   6/19/2007 at 09:08 (6,150 days old) by myvacsrock (USA)        

MY FAVORITE!!!!!

Post# 15106 , Reply# 4   6/19/2007 at 09:09 (6,150 days old) by myvacsrock (USA)        

AWESOME!! from the WONDERFUL Jeff Parker! to chad

Post# 15107 , Reply# 5   6/19/2007 at 09:10 (6,150 days old) by myvacsrock (USA)        

Chad's AMAZING Sears best Kenmore canister!! **MINT CONDIATION**

Post# 15108 , Reply# 6   6/19/2007 at 09:11 (6,150 days old) by myvacsrock (USA)        

Sorry for the spelling!!

Post# 15109 , Reply# 7   6/19/2007 at 09:12 (6,150 days old) by myvacsrock (USA)        

To me from Chad!! YOu should have!! I love it! I love Regina's

Post# 15110 , Reply# 8   6/19/2007 at 09:14 (6,150 days old) by myvacsrock (USA)        

Chad in LALA Land!!

Post# 15111 , Reply# 9   6/19/2007 at 09:15 (6,150 days old) by myvacsrock (USA)        

close up!!

Post# 15112 , Reply# 10   6/19/2007 at 09:16 (6,150 days old) by myvacsrock (USA)        

switch

Post# 15113 , Reply# 11   6/19/2007 at 09:17 (6,150 days old) by myvacsrock (USA)        

**ORIGINAL BAG****MINT****

Post# 15114 , Reply# 12   6/19/2007 at 09:17 (6,150 days old) by myvacsrock (USA)        

fan! of the "O"

Post# 15115 , Reply# 13   6/19/2007 at 09:18 (6,150 days old) by myvacsrock (USA)        

BEST PIC OF ALL!! THE GUTS!!

Post# 15116 , Reply# 14   6/19/2007 at 09:19 (6,150 days old) by myvacsrock (USA)        

Original brushroll! With original belt *DRY*

Post# 15117 , Reply# 15   6/19/2007 at 09:23 (6,150 days old) by myvacsrock (USA)        

PS I ALSO GAVE CHAD A **NIB** RAINBOW MODEL "D" CROME TOP BEFORE THE POWER HEAD MODELS!!

AND A HOOVER CITATION!! i HAVE 2 AND HE WANTED ONE!!


*****I LOVE CAPS LOCK KEY****** lol

Post# 15121 , Reply# 16   6/19/2007 at 13:52 (6,149 days old) by vacmeister76 ()        

Is there a tool rack with attachments inside the kenmore?Can you show additional photos?

Post# 15122 , Reply# 17   6/19/2007 at 14:10 (6,149 days old) by myhooverco ()        

Wow...great photos, Kyle. It looks like you guys had a great time trying out all of those very cool machines. I like that green Kenmore, very 1970's. What year is the Kirby? That has to be one of Kirby's best designs...I know that they used if for a long time too. Great model "O" photos too! I hope to get to see it in person. I have never seen a black commercial Premier before. Is it a two speed? Well anyways, thanks for posting some great pics.

--Tom

Post# 15126 , Reply# 18   6/19/2007 at 16:39 (6,149 days old) by hygiene903 (Galion, OH)        
Great Photos, Kyle!!

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Thanks for posting them. Especially enjoyed the photos of the Model O and Chad's 505 Kirby.
Jeff

Post# 15128 , Reply# 19   6/19/2007 at 17:50 (6,149 days old) by rugmaster37 ()        
uhm...well then....

 I guess I will reply....but I have some things to do. I will give more commentary later!


Chad

Post# 15143 , Reply# 20   6/20/2007 at 00:26 (6,149 days old) by rugmaster37 ()        
Okay Now I will comment on my visit with Kyle...

 So,

Kyle has visited my store several times in the past few months, and it always seems that we never have time to really "use" the old or (older) vacuum's and talk shop. Therefore he made the comment that I should take a small daytrip and come visit his collection in Adrian.

I decided to take a few machines with me to show him..... and these are the machines that you see here..of course sans the Model O .

Vacuum number one is...The Kirby 505. It was a family members that was finally gifted to me after several years of waiting. I restored and polished it many years ago around 1998-99 when I worked at the vacuum shop in Lansing.It's been It has all the tools, which I left at my store, along with the Handi-Butler and the Power-Polisher and the owners manual. I have never been a Kirby person, but this one has significance as it was my great grandmothers, turn my great-aunt's turned mine.

Vacuum Number two is....1974? Singer Golden PowerMasteR from Jeff Parker. He has so graciously gifted this machine to me several years ago also with a Singer S-3 of which is in storage at this time so it did not go with. I had to fashion a headlight lens for the S-GPM as it came to me without one at the time of the arrival to me. Later about a year ago I found a second one that was trashed, bad motor..no brush roll, but had a good base , hood and lens and spare switch and cord reel. I of course took both of them and made one IMHO perfect one for my collection. It will never leave me and is the only machine I would ever consider in a perfect world being buried with.

The third machine is my......1978? Premier Commercial I have question marked the Singer and The Premier as they were clearly built for several years each without changes and a years is hard to ascertain...unless a person from the upper hierarchy of the club would like to accurately date them for me. this too was a Jeff Parker gift. He apparantly found it in a trash can as he was coming home one day. Knowing that I liked it, he gifted it to me virtually as you see it. It looks MORE scratched in this picture....but in real life it's glossy and sexy chrome and black. I re-stenciled the PREMIER script and finally had to replace the cord..but other than that it's original and perfect.

Vacuum number Five is.....My positively identified by catalog and original owners manual 1974 Sears BEST Power Mate canister Cleaner. This machine was purchased by it's original owner, and one of my cherished current customer's on June 23, 1974 from Sears Roebuck and Co in Allen Park Michigan, which is the oldest currently open Sears store in our state. It has everything with it including the attachment tray which unfortunately inside the machine, and I am sure no pictures was taken with the tools out. I also do not have the lambswool pads that fit over the floor tool and upholstery tool. Otherwise this machine is the very nicest I've ever had in a canister.

Vacuum Number Six is....now Kyle's mint early 1980's Regina ElectrikBroom PowerTeam. This machine I found in 1997 in a batch of vacuum cleaners that came from a local Lansing Kirby Dealer as trade ins. I immediately scarfed it and shoved it into my trunk, and after finding a motor and brushroll thru many various channels..Completed it around 2000. IT's been hardly used since....and Kyle about dies when he saw it so I gifted it to him. Gotta pay it forward...


Vacuums that weren't seen was a late 1970's Eureka F&G that is orange and beige in almost perfect and unused shape. I gifted that to Kyle also... among many machines he has .....including...


The Hoover Model O

You can see my face when holding the handle of the worlds first commercially successful vacuum cleaner. I was in fact in LALA land. I felt super privileged pushing that heavy clanking monstrous thing back and forth over that small rug. It must have been the same way Susan Hoover Felt in 1907-08 when she pushed Murray's prototype across the rug in her entryway.

Surprisingly...Kyle pointed out that the machine is made of wood and tin. And to my amazement that machine is in fact wood upper and lower body, with tacked tin around. The whole nozzle housing is cut tin, and the basic construction is SO good considering that there was absolutely NO previous technology to go by.

I was surprised also that it wasn't as heavy as I had imagined I mean it's 40 lbs. so it;s definitely a chunker but It definitely is an experience that I will never forget. However..just have been able to run it and see it work and blow up that ginormous bag that I'm holding would have been truly heavenly. Maybe if it could be restored properly and as close to original as possible...that may occur here in the future

Well this is a Very long tome and I'm kinda out of thought surprisingly...so I'll stop and wait to see if anyone else will make comments on this visit Kyle and I had. Thanks again Kyle for posting the pictures and having me down. Maybe we can do it again soon.

Chad

Post# 15146 , Reply# 21   6/20/2007 at 06:18 (6,149 days old) by myvacsrock (USA)        

thanks chad!!! i had a great time!

Post# 15165 , Reply# 22   6/20/2007 at 13:09 (6,148 days old) by myvacsrock (USA)        

Chad do you use the Singer golden power master regularly??
as a daily driver??

Post# 15169 , Reply# 23   6/20/2007 at 14:32 (6,148 days old) by petek (Ontario)        

Great photos. The Singer is one of my faves as well. Next time you're out and about come round to my place..just over the bridge at Port Huron. I should get out your way one of these days, I just got my car back from a valve gasket job so I'm hesistant to drive it anywhere at the moment till I'm sure they fixed it right this time, they didn't the first time.

Post# 15176 , Reply# 24   6/20/2007 at 19:28 (6,148 days old) by myvacsrock (USA)        

Pete i would love to meet you some time!!

Post# 15179 , Reply# 25   6/20/2007 at 20:04 (6,148 days old) by rugmaster37 ()        
Regular use of the Golden PowerMasteR....

 No I do not use the Golden regularly. In fact as my daily drivers at this point...I'm using a Hoover Dial-A-Matic model # U5007 Orange and White or the "Creamsicle" as it's reffered to by those in the house. This machine sits in the hallway upstairs, and is used to clean all the bedrooms, and the hallway. On the third floor I have my Eureka Empress II. That takes care of that area. On the main floor I have my Hoover Model #719 as my daily driver. And in the basement I'm using a Hoover Dimension 1000 canister to clean the laundry and family room's.

I sometimes rotate these machines...And the Eureka Empress is a floater...or I use it whenever I feel like canister cleaning the place. The Dimension is used for this too, butI like the Eureka better...


hope this helps...

Chad

Post# 15247 , Reply# 26   6/22/2007 at 21:27 (6,146 days old) by rugmaster37 ()        
Kirby 505

 Tom,

to properly answer your question, the Kirby 505 was purchased June 20th, 1947 for $119.45. It was sold for that price after a $25.00 down payment and a trade in of a Eureka Model R to Robert J. Herrick, my maternal great grandfather. He purchased it for his wife Ellen Sue . If I remember correctly he told me that the Kirby's remaining monthly payment worked out to $1.25 weekly...

Chad

Post# 15266 , Reply# 27   6/23/2007 at 11:08 (6,145 days old) by dustette ()        

great vacs Kyle...i liked them all


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