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FOUND; Kenmore blue Powermate & chrome GE polisher 		[Down to Last]

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Post# 15873   7/3/2007 at 15:14 (6,141 days old) by petek (Ontario)        

Kinda lucked out today when I found this blue Powermate at the Sally Ann and with all the tools inboard, only needs a new belt and she'll be good to go, One little hole in the hose but otherwise it's in very good condition. Any sort of rubbery glop I can fill the hole with?

Post# 15874 , Reply# 1   7/3/2007 at 15:17 (6,141 days old) by petek (Ontario)        

And this fabulous GE chrome floor polisher, hardly looks to have been used. Grew up with moms green one, green ones are all over and sometimes tan ones but seldom the chrome ones and if so they're usually pitted, not this one.

Post# 15876 , Reply# 2   7/3/2007 at 15:44 (6,141 days old) by kirbyvacuum (Long Island New York)        
Nice find

 hi Pete I had a GE polisher just like that for years it worked VERY well.After 35 years it died. Try getting that out of the crap they make today. I like your collection of Kirbys I like the DUAL 80 very much. Well take care Doug

Post# 15899 , Reply# 3   7/3/2007 at 22:22 (6,141 days old) by scott55405 ()        

Great finds Pete! Always liked those blue Sears, and the chrome GE polishers!

Post# 15906 , Reply# 4   7/3/2007 at 23:45 (6,141 days old) by rugmaster37 ()        
That Kenmo' is the exact....

 machine that my grandmother had.

She moved with my grandfather to a VERY large house on Lake Sommerset, Sommerset Mich, in March of 1978. Just recently I asked her about the square footage of the place and she told me after the added the family room it totaled a grand 1758 square feet on the main floor and another 900 upstairs. She at the time had a Hoover Convertible 1060 like the one that has been featured in another post.

She purchased ithis machine after realizing that her upright was NO match for the thru house gold green and beige shag that was EVRYWHERE thru that house. Add some nappy leopard print carpet in the Kitchen, and various colors in the bedrooms to complete her theme's..she found herself going to the local Sears store in Jackson Michigan and purchased this very canister cleaner with PowerMate, for the grand total of 209.88 May 3rd 1979. She used that machine until she supplanted it with a Singer Based commercial Kenmore sometime around 1987. I was NEVER allowed to play with the machine.

A funny story ensued with that machine. I KNEW that I was NOT allowed to play with her vacuum cleaner,and she was the only one in my family who could tell if I moved OR played with their vacuum or not. Or at least led me to believe that they knew.

One weekend when I was there from what I was told the summer of 1981 when I was four I was helping my grandma with dinner..or well I was sitting on a stool watching her. I heard the vacuum come on from far away. Sliding down off the stool I raced down the hallway towards the noise. I ran thru the whole house looking for it...finally after looking I noticed that it was coming from my grandpa's workshop.

I opened the huge metal door that seperated the grage from the workshop and there was my granpa using HER vacuum to clen up sawdust and sutff from the floor. Before my granpa could say a word I raced bnack toward the kitchen where gram was still preparing food..and as I get to her all out of breath I gasp

"Goddamn it grandma...grampa is using your NEW vacuum out in the shop"

My whole family still tells that story to this day. It still makes my grandma laugh so hard she cries a little.

Ahhh the memories of 1981..

Chad
Suddenly I heard the vacuum far away turn on.

Post# 15942 , Reply# 5   7/4/2007 at 12:11 (6,140 days old) by petek (Ontario)        

Great story Chad.
I was wondering if this vac might possibly be the one I saw down in the basement of one of the houses for sale that we looked at last fall. Naturally I zoomed right in on it while checking out their basement as I seem to do in every house we went to look at... gotta see what type of vac they have LOL Anyways, the only thing good about that house was their blue Kenmore and couldn't really say I'll buy the vac but I don't want the house. .


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