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What year is this Shop-Vac, it's COOL, tell me what I've got?
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Post# 183834   6/2/2012 at 11:56 (4,338 days old) by zoomieport ()        

Picked this up at a garage sale... I'm 41 and not a big collector, but I've never seen one like this, though I admit, I hadn't been looking, haha!

Post# 183835 , Reply# 1   6/2/2012 at 11:57 (4,338 days old) by zoomieport ()        

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Post# 183840 , Reply# 6   6/2/2012 at 12:02 (4,338 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa)        

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wow that is one of the oldest shopvacs I have ever seen 


Post# 183861 , Reply# 7   6/2/2012 at 12:48 (4,338 days old) by fan-of-fans (USA)        

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Indeed a very early shop vac. I would guess 1960s. I saw a similar but dark green one in a thrift store a few months ago. These were dry pickup machines and would have a large diameter hose. Shop Vac later moved its headquarters to PA where it is now.

Post# 184102 , Reply# 8   6/3/2012 at 19:25 (4,336 days old) by zoomieport ()        

Bump?

Post# 184186 , Reply# 9   6/4/2012 at 09:48 (4,336 days old) by rugsucker (Elizabethton TN)        
Shop-Vac

Probably late 60s,early 70s.Shop type vacs entered the household market in the 60s led by Delta and Craftsman dust collectors for the home workshop.The 'flat top' is dry pickup only.The wet pickup motor was raised.Before these it was typical for the old house vac to be moved to garage and basesment when a replacement was bought.Yours is somewhat plain next to later cans that were almost pop art such as my red/white/blue Penncrest bicentennial that I actualy found on the 4th of July.

Post# 184195 , Reply# 10   6/4/2012 at 11:34 (4,336 days old) by zoomieport ()        

Nice, thanks! Post a picture of your RW&B one?

Post# 184370 , Reply# 11   6/5/2012 at 10:30 (4,335 days old) by rugsucker (Elizabethton TN)        
red/white/blue

I would like to post picture.First is it upstairs or attic or warehouse?Second,I have to stop and service a Eureka & Kirby & Bissell.So maybe I will have pics by July 4th.But by then maybe it will be beside RWB Sears & Bicentennial Hoover!

Post# 250910 , Reply# 12   9/22/2013 at 10:35 (3,861 days old) by Bebring (Québec)        

My grandparent have one like that

Post# 250939 , Reply# 13   9/22/2013 at 14:32 (3,861 days old) by vacman1961 (North Babylon, New York)        

I would guess by the number 826 it was built the 26th week of 1968 ?????


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