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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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Post# 231429 , Reply# 1   5/6/2013 at 06:45 (3,978 days old) by dysonman1 (the county)   |   | |
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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.
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Post# 231445 , Reply# 2   5/6/2013 at 10:00 (3,978 days old) by rugsucker (Elizabethton TN)   |   | |
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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)   |   | |
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Post# 231471 , Reply# 4   5/6/2013 at 12:46 (3,978 days old) by papasvacs (Lauderdale Lakes, FL)   |   | |
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Post# 231483 , Reply# 5   5/6/2013 at 14:12 (3,978 days old) by dysonman1 (the county)   |   | |
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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.
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Post# 231510 , Reply# 6   5/6/2013 at 17:57 (3,978 days old) by paulg (my sweet home Chicago)   |   | |
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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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Post# 231558 , Reply# 8   5/7/2013 at 01:39 (3,978 days old) by kirbyvertibles (Independence, KS)   |   | |
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