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Post# 261876   1/5/2014 at 01:56 (3,735 days old) by rainbowvacfane2 (tracy ca)        

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What was your child hood vac and do u still have it ? My child hood vacs are a powr-flite pf-747 and a bissell powerforce baggless and I still have the bissell the powr-flite was tossed for a bad motor but my friend Crish had one and have it to me for FREE he even paid shipping :side note when I got it I called him and said u the best person in the world he lagged and said your welcome ) so let me know what was your I think I saw a trend on here awhile ago but let's see if your got those vacs

Post# 261890 , Reply# 1   1/5/2014 at 08:04 (3,735 days old) by citroenbx (england)        
dyson dc01 1998

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this IS the one from my childhood

and my mum stijl use's every day :-)


Post# 261938 , Reply# 2   1/5/2014 at 12:54 (3,735 days old) by beko1987 (Stokenchurch, United Kingdom)        
Vax 121 and Electrolux 154.

Have neither, although have a new in box (almost) 121 in the loft.

Saw a 154 on eBay but it exceeded my budget at the time sadly.


Post# 261967 , Reply# 3   1/5/2014 at 18:20 (3,734 days old) by TASE (Colorado)        

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My childhood vac is a Kirby G6...

I'd love to own it but my father won't let me take it from him... I have to find him a Sentria or Diamond Edition before he'll give it to me.


Post# 261990 , Reply# 4   1/5/2014 at 19:15 (3,734 days old) by NYCWriter (New York City)        
My childhood vac ...

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This isn't my pic, but the upright on the left was the exact model as Mom's. Right down to the *milk* chocolate-colored vinyl bag, as opposed to the dark chocolate colored vinyl bag that came on some models that year (1967-68 I believe), and the dark chocolate heavy rubber bumper that went the full way around the base (as opposed to stopping halfway back on less "deluxe" models -- something I always used to regard as being intentionally and unnecessarily cheap by Hoover -- how much more expensive was another eight inches or so of rubber??).



Post# 261992 , Reply# 5   1/5/2014 at 19:30 (3,734 days old) by sptyks (Skowhegan, Maine)        

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My parents bought a brand new Kirby DS50 from a door to door salesman in the mid sixties. I remember the Home Demo very well. Boy, I wish I still had that vacuum today.

Unfortunately both my parents passed away while I was in the ARMY stationed in Okinawa in 1975 and the DS50 was sold as part of the estate. Some lucky bloke probably bought it for pennies on the dollar form whatever my parents paid for it.


Post# 261993 , Reply# 6   1/5/2014 at 19:36 (3,734 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA)        

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Yep, still have our 59 Compact

Post# 261994 , Reply# 7   1/5/2014 at 19:37 (3,734 days old) by pr-21 (Middletown, OH)        
Childhood Vacuum

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Here is mine.


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Post# 261999 , Reply# 8   1/5/2014 at 20:26 (3,734 days old) by VacuumSalesman (Berlin Heights)        
My Mom's and Grandparents'

My mom's was a Purple Eureka Contour that was later replaced with a Dyson DC14 (the Contour's motor burned out and I sold the Dyson after fixing it), My Grandma Gaudiello had a Kirby G4 that she is giving me soon because she now has a Shark, and my Grandma Riley had a Runabout that she threw out because the front wheel fell right off and she wouldn't let me fix it.

Post# 262006 , Reply# 9   1/5/2014 at 21:34 (3,734 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center)        
I grew up in a Fantom household!

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Including a Fantom thunder and a Cyclone XT. Those both met their end by carpet fresh, look in the archives under my name for the full story behind that, I wrote it in some thread about what vacuums your friends/family owns, something like that?

 

I still have the Cyclone XT's replacement, though. A Eureka The Boss in blue (Hard to guess the exact cleaner, Huh)?

It just sits in the closet un-used, I have all my other machines for vacuuming! 


Post# 262025 , Reply# 10   1/6/2014 at 00:21 (3,734 days old) by NYCWriter (New York City)        
LOL ...

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... I keep forgetting how old I really am, hearing about how some of us "grew up" with Fantoms!

Post# 262026 , Reply# 11   1/6/2014 at 02:34 (3,734 days old) by Turbo500 (West Yorkshire, UK)        

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The first vacuum my Mum had was a Hoover Turbopower U2332, but I was only 2 when it was replaced with a Panasonic MCE-44. Then my Dad bought a Kirby Legend 2 and we had both the Kirby and Panasonic for a fair few years. Mum got rid of the Kirby years ago, but I still have the Panasonic

Post# 262060 , Reply# 12   1/6/2014 at 08:07 (3,734 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA)        

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My very thoughts too Matt

Post# 263316 , Reply# 13   1/14/2014 at 12:37 (3,726 days old) by rainbowvacfane2 (tracy ca)        
Wow

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I maybe getting a fantom fury with a bad Motor anyone got one ?

Post# 263332 , Reply# 14   1/14/2014 at 16:38 (3,725 days old) by ultralux88 (Denver, Colorado)        

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We had the green Hoover Spirit with the PN. It was the BOL Model with a PN. I still have it in my collection.

Post# 263333 , Reply# 15   1/14/2014 at 16:43 (3,725 days old) by ultralux88 (Denver, Colorado)        

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I am old enough to remember a time before bagless vacuums were on the market too! It seemed miraculous at first until I got a little more experienced with them... The only bagless vacs that I use with any regularity are the Rainbow, Filter Queen, and silver king. Though I will pull out a Dyson, Eureka made Kenmore bagless or once in a great while a Fantom or even the Amway Cleartrack.

Post# 280221 , Reply# 16   5/12/2014 at 05:23 (3,608 days old) by krantz55 (Canada)        

My parents had (still have for garage use) a Dirt Devil Swivel Glide that was given to them by my grandparents. I was with my grandparents a lot so I would help them out. It was with my grandparents I vacuumed for the first time with their Amway ClearTrak which I now own. About 2 years ago I came across a brown chest in the basement and a metal wand and asked what it was. My grandmother told me a vacuum was in there. Turns out she and grandpa bought a FilterQueen 700 in 1978 and stopped using it when they got the Amway. I started to use it and loved it. The Amway did outperform it but not by much. They have also given their FilterQueen to me.

Post# 280231 , Reply# 17   5/12/2014 at 10:39 (3,608 days old) by jodan3399 (Brownsville, PA)        

My mother had a couple of upright hoovers I don't remember much about, a red Kenmore she hated (gift from MIL), and later a couple of heavily abused Kirby's she found at yard sales. One screamed like a banshee until she found a parts machine and swapped the motor.

I was in my teens when my neighbor moved in and bought a silver tri star I fell in love with, never had seen anything like it, like a torpedo on wheels... it disappeared after awhile replaced by something else. Years later they called me over to get some junk out of the shed for them, old vacuum, pool pump, etc... told me to take what I wanted and put the rest out for trash.

The old vacuum was the silver tri star. It cleaned up nicely, and is still my favorite daily driver.


Post# 280244 , Reply# 18   5/12/2014 at 13:40 (3,608 days old) by kirbylux77 (London, Ontario, Canada)        
Canadian Electrolux AP280

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That was my childhood vac. My mom bought it in 1979 when I was a year old, to replace the Elux 89 she used for her home & housekeeping business. After that, she retired the 89 to housekeeping business duty only.

Rob


Post# 280250 , Reply# 19   5/12/2014 at 14:02 (3,608 days old) by citroenbx (england)        
VAX 121

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and vax 121 we used for cleaning carpet's and new-year when there was big always a big mess


THIS VAX IS NOT MINE


Post# 280410 , Reply# 20   5/13/2014 at 21:02 (3,606 days old) by DJub85 (Virginia)        

Kirbylux... nice old Canadian Lux! I've been looking for someone who'd know... what similarities do those canisters (AP280) have to the newer 2100 plastic canisters that Aerus still sells today? I've been trying to find out recently, and I *feel* like the 2100 is just the same 280 machine you have pictured, but with new trim pieces (bag door, rear cover, trim, top cover). The machine bottoms are identical looking, and there are major similarities to suggest that your AP280 evolved into the 2100 with a modest face lift. Thoughts? No one in America knows because your model was never sold here.

Thanks =)

Also, the Diamond Jubilee was my childhood vac, passed down to me 5 years ago when I bought my first house. Ignore the other two Tongue out they're recent additions.


Post# 280415 , Reply# 21   5/13/2014 at 23:08 (3,606 days old) by kirbylux77 (London, Ontario, Canada)        
Dave

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You are correct....the Canadian AP series canisters, AP100, AP200, & AP280....did evolve into the E2000 model, introduced in 1982. It was identical in appearance to the 2100, except that it was beige instead of white & had an improved version of the AP series motor that had an increase in waterlift & CFM ratings. However, that motor was a HUGE nightmare for Electrolux as many of them died prematurely & needed replacement. The E2000 also had a Canadian version of the RugSaver PN4 power nozzle, the PN2000....painted beige with a slightly different quick-release neck that accomodated a lower wand with a buttonlock. That wand & quick-release neck were experimental, though....used only on the E2000....and discontinued when the 2100 came out. The 89, AP100, 200, 280 & E2000 models also had a trigger switch on the hose handgrip for the powerhead, & a sliding suction relief on the front of the handgrip. On the 2100, the trigger switch was eliminated & the suction relief was changed to a knob on the back of the handle, same as the American hose handles. Also, the E2000 was the last model to have separate dusting & upholstery tools & a plastic tool caddy....the 2100 introduced the combo dusting/upholstery tool & a shortened crevice tool, as well as the new PN5 power nozzle, which was later replaced with the PN6.

Also, it's important to note that the AP280 was the only Electrolux model ever made worldwide to have a 2 speed motor. I think that alone makes it special :-). It's just amazing to me that this same design, starting with the AP100, has been around & still being made since 1973! It's such a simple design that works so well.

Here is a link below to an old Vacuumland thread on the E2000.

Rob


CLICK HERE TO GO TO kirbylux77's LINK


Post# 280421 , Reply# 22   5/13/2014 at 23:48 (3,606 days old) by smow69 (Muskogee Oklahoma)        
child hood vacs

My mom started out with an electrolux model l blue with pn and all attacchments i still have it, and then she bought 2 eureka upright and a eureka canister at otasco. when I was a young boy I still have all of them and her later in years Rainbow se...the uprights one upstairs one down stairs the lux went upstairs also

Post# 280422 , Reply# 23   5/13/2014 at 23:50 (3,606 days old) by smow69 (Muskogee Oklahoma)        
pic 2

canister eureka and down stairs upright

Post# 280423 , Reply# 24   5/13/2014 at 23:51 (3,606 days old) by smow69 (Muskogee Oklahoma)        
pic 3 rainbow



Post# 280425 , Reply# 25   5/13/2014 at 23:53 (3,606 days old) by smow69 (Muskogee Oklahoma)        
electrolux

I will add a pic tomorrow I dont have one of it yet i dont know why either........

Post# 280486 , Reply# 26   5/14/2014 at 12:20 (3,606 days old) by dysonman1 (the county)        
Childhood Vacuum

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My mother bought this Rainbow model D, 18 days before I was born. She got the hair dryer attachment for free because she bought on the 'first call'. I learned to read from the instruction manual. Wet Dust Cannot Fly!!

Post# 280505 , Reply# 27   5/14/2014 at 15:40 (3,605 days old) by williamr1248 (USA)        
Childhood Vacuum

Here is ours bought in the early 1950's for $92.50.
It was serviced by Air-Way in 1970 and again last summer by Duane from our club.


Post# 280525 , Reply# 28   5/14/2014 at 17:44 (3,605 days old) by gottahaveahoove (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640)        
A HOOVER "Convertible", model 67

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My dad bought it 2 weeks before I was born! It's been beaten to heck by EVERYONE. I still have it (Tom put a new motor in it last year). But, I now have another identical one, thanks to Tom and Ed Schenkle, (Morrison's Vac Shop) premiere vac store in North Canton, Ohio. The "nice" one is on the left, "fawn brown", next to a few other trinkets. I run "Mummy's" every once in a while..... esp on her birthday, Sept 24

Post# 280546 , Reply# 29   5/14/2014 at 21:38 (3,605 days old) by DJub85 (Virginia)        

Thanks for the affirmation, kirbylux! I didn't even know that series existed until I recently purchased a 24 bag pack from Aerus, and after close studying, I noticed that there was something very odd about what I initially thought was an Olympia One.  Once I found pictures of the AP series, I couldn't overlook the similarities... the handle indentation, the location of the control valve, the shape of the plug cut-out, and the pontoons on the bottom of the canister. I knew they had to be the same vacuums underneath the cladding, so thanks for verifying!


Post# 280551 , Reply# 30   5/14/2014 at 21:51 (3,605 days old) by Brad845 (Harlan, Kentucky)        
Dirt Devil

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My parents owned this type of Dirt Devil, not sure what the model is, I would climb on and mom pushed me around while she vacuumed!

Not my picture



Post# 281713 , Reply# 31   5/24/2014 at 20:54 (3,595 days old) by Loganvac (Kennett Square, Pennsylvania)        

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Mine was a Eureka Powerline plus. My dad threw ours out when I was six, but I still have no idea why as it worked just fine. I just recently found one at a flea market. Using it really brings me back...

Post# 281724 , Reply# 32   5/24/2014 at 22:43 (3,595 days old) by panofan (West Coast)        

My childhood vac memories are wall inlets connected to a Canavac powerunit and a beam air driven accessory pack (with a Swiss made TK2 that looks like this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/NuTone-CV353-Cen... (you can see the brushroll in the last photo)).

Others - grandmother's hoover convertible that 'lived' in our fruit cellar, and my parents old hoover celebrity that had basement duty util an inlet was put into the basement.

The powerhead on the red old hoover used to scare me as a kid, but hearing a turbo brush wind up is a sound I love to this day. (Vacuuming was my chore). Say what you will about turbo brushes, but 30+ years later, bedrooms are all that is left with carpet and it still looks great. They ditched using the central vac a few years ago - and bought a bagless cheap Canadian Tire upright with a 'great' hepa filter.


Post# 281739 , Reply# 33   5/25/2014 at 01:29 (3,595 days old) by VacTime87 ()        
Elite and Fury!

Are the two childhood vacuums I distinctly remember. We had a burgandy Hoover Elite (identical to the one in Mrs. Doubtfire). Then we got a Fantom Fury (the one with the green handle-grip). I was obsessed with the Fury. I would always watch the instructional video on it haha. My parents gave both of them away, sadly. I would love to find a burgandy Hoover Elite that comes with all of the attachments. It would be cool to go back in time and use it again!

Michael


Post# 281782 , Reply# 34   5/25/2014 at 11:30 (3,595 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center)        
GREEN Furry!?

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Was it olive green, or the regular blueish-green color most Furries were manufactured in? In the few short months before Fantom filed bankruptcy, the Fury was made in olive green, with the single-cyclonic logo. This would've been in early-to-mid 2001, Fantom closed in October 2001. These single-cyclone Furries are EXTREMELY rare. I've seen ONE since vacuumland began in 2006.


Post# 281792 , Reply# 35   5/25/2014 at 13:30 (3,595 days old) by adiosTor3ador ()        
I grew up

I grew up in a eureka home for about five years then my parents bought a rainbow d4 then gave that to a family friend to be replaced by the first incantation of the E2. The picture is of the Eureka after my grandparents gave it back after upgrading to a Hoover Mach 6.

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Post# 281825 , Reply# 36   5/25/2014 at 18:57 (3,594 days old) by eurekastar (Amarillo, Texas)        

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My Mom had a series of Kirbys over the years.  My parents were given a new Kirby as a wedding gift when they were married in 1953.  So I'm guessing that was a Model 513.  That's the vacuum we used when I was growing up, although I didn't pay attention to the model number and avoided using it like the plague! They traded it in on a Classic Omega, which I now own.  I rebuilt it about five years ago.  I guess it was a moment of weakness when my Mom bought a Tradition.  We lived in a 2 story house, so I guess that's how she justified that purchase -- one for upstairs (Omega) and one for downstairs (Tradition)  She now owns a Diamond G. 


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Post# 281962 , Reply# 37   5/26/2014 at 20:15 (3,593 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center)        
Stareka,

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Does the Tradition still see use?


Post# 281971 , Reply# 38   5/26/2014 at 22:05 (3,593 days old) by floor-a-matic (somewhere)        

Electrolux 1205 with blue PN1


Post# 281974 , Reply# 39   5/26/2014 at 22:11 (3,593 days old) by eurekastar (Amarillo, Texas)        
super-sweeper

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I don't know what happened to the Tradition. I haven't seen it around her house, so I don't think she has it anymore.

Post# 282084 , Reply# 40   5/27/2014 at 22:16 (3,592 days old) by vacuumdude (Spokane WA)        
yup this is mine

Its weird but! When I was a we lil boy I straped this on walked down and up the hall with it and vacuumed during recess

Post# 282085 , Reply# 41   5/27/2014 at 22:19 (3,592 days old) by vacuumdude (Spokane WA)        
now just imagine a 4 foot tall lil boy walking around

With that on his back I was only 4!! Haha it was so much funi want one of my own !


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