Question About Kirby Service Manuals

I have a question to be answered about Kirby service manuals: I'm wondering if anyone who has one or more of these could please make a list of which parts were discontinued with each successive model?

I know that by the time the last Sanitronic VIIs were made (first half 1965), the complete spray gun used on all models up to and including the 560 was discontinued (use part no. 250061, which was the newer Suds-O-Gun) although certain individual parts were still being made for it like its Suds-O-Gun cap and the stem that adjusts how much trigger force is used when spraying.

Again, I want to think that Kirby had discontinued most of the gray and red trim parts for the 500 series after it had made available the schematics for its Classic III 2CB (a model introduced in 1976), since it was also colored red (but a subtly darker shade). I do know that Kirby did continue selling its gray bag (#190058) as late as circa 1988 (but with red Kirby ovals in a pattern mimicking that of the Dual Sanitronic 80) since I remember it having a tag for "Scott Fetzer" on the back.

I also know that the original decals for the Kirby Classic 1CR's long handle and rug nozzle (without the Omega symbol) were dropped around July 1983, since I know a rebuild carrying that date had the Omega versions of those decals.

~Ben


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Post# 234261 5/27/2013 at 20:02 (3,979 days old) by KirbyClassicIII (Milwaukie, Oregon)
Checkrate/Likes I have a question to be answered about Kirby service manuals: I'm wondering if anyone who has one or more of these could please make a list of which parts were discontinued with each successive model? I know that by the time the last Sanitronic VIIs were made (first half 1965), the complete spray gun used on all models up to and including the 560 was discontinued (use part no. 250061, which was the newer Suds-O-Gun) although certain individual parts were still being made for it like its Suds-O-Gun cap and the stem that adjusts how much trigger force is used when spraying. Again, I want to think that Kirby had discontinued most of the gray and red trim parts for the 500 series after it had made available the schematics for its Classic III 2CB (a model introduced in 1976), since it was also colored red (but a subtly darker shade). I do know that Kirby did continue selling its gray bag (#190058) as late as circa 1988 (but with red Kirby ovals in a pattern mimicking that of the Dual Sanitronic 80) since I remember it having a tag for "Scott Fetzer" on the back. I also know that the original decals for the Kirby Classic 1CR's long handle and rug nozzle (without the Omega symbol) were dropped around July 1983, since I know a rebuild carrying that date had the Omega versions of those decals. ~Ben