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Vintage Kirby design problems |
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Post# 234687 , Reply# 2   6/1/2013 at 00:14 (3,974 days old) by cb123 (Mobile, Al.)   |   | |
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Try Trimming you some window gasket material of the black adhesive foam persuasion kind to fit the channel on your fan housing. That will fix it pretty much forever. Now in regards to the belt lifter - I believe the aerodynamics are as such that a negative pressure is created and any performance reduction do to vacuum lose would be negligible. I would be careful about putting a washer of any kind betwixt your belt lifter and dye cast - on the event of mortally damaging your flanges - hence - no more belt lifter.
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Post# 234688 , Reply# 3   6/1/2013 at 00:22 (3,974 days old) by KirbyClassicIII (Milwaukie, Oregon)   |   | |
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Post# 234711 , Reply# 5   6/1/2013 at 09:58 (3,973 days old) by farmvet01 ()   |   | |
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Here is a picture of the bar. As you can see, it is not bent. I was criticizing these design aspects based on much experience with many 500 series machines! |
Post# 234747 , Reply# 6   6/1/2013 at 11:16 (3,973 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center)   |   | |
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This is a Vacuum Cleaner from the early 1950s, Many Improvements have been made over the Decades since the Model 519 was launched, such as a better Belt lifter design (4 Revisions took place from 519-G series, with an improved belt lifter design appearing on models Dual-Sanitronic, Classic/Tradition, Heritage, And Generation series), Paper filter bags, along with other improvements.
When this machine was introduced, The Belt Lifter, the one you are over criticizing too much, was an amazing mechanism found exclusively on Kirby vacuum cleaners, And they Did Not Have Knurled belts, Knurled Belts were introduced at the start of the Generation series, and Designed for the Gerneration-Sentria Models. The Knurled belt puts too much pressure on the pre-generation Kirby Models, Especially the 500 series. As Ben (KirbyClassicIII) Has Stated above, You should install a soft belt, along with be careful with a plastic belt lifter. Turn slowly and with care.
As for the issue of suction leakage, the amount lost is hardly measurable, Why does it make such a huge difference that the newer model Kirby can retain that itsy-bitsy amount of suction possible lost by the 519?
I apologize for my rant, But Simply find this un-heard-of type of over-criticism absurd.
-Alex. |
Post# 234748 , Reply# 7   6/1/2013 at 11:16 (3,973 days old) by cb123 (Mobile, Al.)   |   | |
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It's kind of like comparing a sopwith camel to a 747, or the Apollo space capsule to the shuttle program, but the stubborn fact remains - it will still lift a rug with its direct suction capabilities. Even with all of its perceived inferiorities it still outperforms most other vacuum cleaners. Giving its age that's most remarkable. That's my humble opinion, and we all know what they say about opinions.
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Post# 234749 , Reply# 8   6/1/2013 at 11:23 (3,973 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center)   |   | |
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That was the point I was trying to illustrate, This model is elder, and a marvel for it's time, Yet it still it better than the crap they sell at the big-box stores!
The little issues you criticize are nothing compared to the issues found on modern-day cleaners. Would you rather be rattling off to an automated costumer service line about your Bissell (Or half the stuff in the floor-care isle) exploding 3 days After you purchased it, or be cleaning merrily with a precision-built Kirby for eternity? |
Post# 234754 , Reply# 9   6/1/2013 at 11:48 (3,973 days old) by KirbyClassicIII (Milwaukie, Oregon)   |   | |
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Alex (super-sweeper),
I wonder if the flat (polisher/Reno Group) #301289 belt can be used behind the ball-bearing brush rolls on the pre-G models? I know in the original 1981 printing of the Kirby Heritage Convenience Group instruction book, the #301279 flat belt (today's #301289) could be used for both the rug nozzle as well as the Miracle Head and Rug Renovator (the two Reno Group components) but not the Handi-Butler nor the Turbo Brush accessories. ~Ben |
Post# 234756 , Reply# 10   6/1/2013 at 12:17 (3,973 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center)   |   | |
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Post# 234759 , Reply# 11   6/1/2013 at 12:24 (3,973 days old) by KirbyClassicIII (Milwaukie, Oregon)   |   | |
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Post# 234761 , Reply# 12   6/1/2013 at 12:42 (3,973 days old) by Kirbyrama (Pennsylvania)   |   | |
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The 519 model Kirby was manufactured in 1959-60---however still very old for a vacuum cleaner. |
Post# 234769 , Reply# 13   6/1/2013 at 13:43 (3,973 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center)   |   | |
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Post# 234780 , Reply# 15   6/1/2013 at 14:51 (3,973 days old) by cb123 (Mobile, Al.)   |   | |
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I here pardon you from your past transgression, but don't ever let it happen again. For Kirby is the best vacuum ever made by vile human hands! Sounds crazy don't it? Just kidding, but it is one of the very best. Now about trying to attain perfection. You will only drive yourself crazy, but aren't we all a little crazy - makes one to think - Oh, why bother...who cares anyway. Have fun for tomorrow will be another day...maybe.
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Post# 234781 , Reply# 16   6/1/2013 at 15:29 (3,973 days old) by farmvet01 ()   |   | |
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How about it, "super-sweeper"? Did you get my APOLOGY??? |
Post# 234787 , Reply# 17   6/1/2013 at 16:42 (3,973 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center)   |   | |
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