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Post# 231425   5/6/2013 at 04:04 (3,979 days old) by paulg (my sweet home Chicago)        

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Do any of you recall the "Ping Thing" ?
If I recall correctly it was a disc incorporated into the handle of a Kenmore canister that "ping-ed" whenever debris was picked up. When the pinging stopped your rugs were clean.
I'm thinking this attachment was announced in the 1970's.


Post# 231429 , Reply# 1   5/6/2013 at 06:45 (3,978 days old) by dysonman1 (the county)        
You are correct:

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Sears offered two different versions. One for "power-mate" models and one for suction only models. They were listed with the accessories like bags, filters, hoses, etc. in the catalog. One nice by-product of using a "Ping Thing" was the added length to the wand of the Power Mate. Many 1970's Kenmore's, especially the earlier ones, had fairly short single-piece power nozzle wands. It was the first 'vocal' dirt finder.

Post# 231445 , Reply# 2   5/6/2013 at 10:00 (3,978 days old) by rugsucker (Elizabethton TN)        
Ping Thing

Tom is right. There was also a clothes nozzle with an air turbine rotating brush that I have found. But never the Ping Thing which is on my short list of wants. If I recall there were replacable discs that the dirt hit to make noise.

Post# 231465 , Reply# 3   5/6/2013 at 12:19 (3,978 days old) by kloveland (Tulsa)        
Picture of the ping thing.

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Just ran across this on Google books.

CLICK HERE TO GO TO kloveland's LINK


Post# 231471 , Reply# 4   5/6/2013 at 12:46 (3,978 days old) by papasvacs (Lauderdale Lakes, FL)        
Ah, yes, I remember it well.....

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Did it work?  Was it a "flop"?

 

How was it received by the general population of Kenmore owners?

 

Just wondering..............

 

 

Greg F.


Post# 231483 , Reply# 5   5/6/2013 at 14:12 (3,978 days old) by dysonman1 (the county)        
They did have them hooked up...

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In our Sears store, attached to (as I recall) their 'sale' model Power-Mate canister. I remember my mother saying she thought the sound was annoying. We didn't have a Kenmore vacuum (I was 12 years old then) so we never owned a "Ping Thing". The only ones I ever saw were at Sears. I never saw one actually owned by a customer. But they were sold, so they do exist.

Post# 231510 , Reply# 6   5/6/2013 at 17:57 (3,978 days old) by paulg (my sweet home Chicago)        
That was the article I remembered

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You nailed it! That is exactly the article I read many years ago.
Thanks for the info!


Post# 231515 , Reply# 7   5/6/2013 at 18:43 (3,978 days old) by Oreck_XL (Brooklyn, New York 11211)        

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Whoever invented the "Ping Thing" was a marketing genius! I'd love to know what the replaceable disks were made out of? Perhaps some type of aluminum foil?

- Hershel


Post# 231558 , Reply# 8   5/7/2013 at 01:39 (3,978 days old) by kirbyvertibles (Independence, KS)        

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OMG that's what that thing is!!!! I have the one that went to the power mate model. It's packed up with the attachments at the moment. Man I always wondered what in the hell it was for

Post# 231598 , Reply# 9   5/7/2013 at 04:04 (3,978 days old) by tolivac (Greenville,NC)        

Metal direct air vacuums make the "ping" sound when something hard goes thru the fan.Plastic fans go "clack".The "ping" thing for the canister sounds sort of interesting.Good for folks that like hearing things being picked up.Otherwise canister users have to be happy with things rattling up the wands and thru the hose-to the "thoop" into the canister.


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