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Thread Number: 25947
Who likes a find with a back story? |
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| Post# 290986 , Reply# 1 7/29/2014 at 23:14 (3,556 days old) by bnsd60m9200 (Akron OH) | ||
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| Post# 290988 , Reply# 2 7/29/2014 at 23:20 (3,556 days old) by SeboLady369 () | ||
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Yep Yes I do haha it's getting more and more cramped around here. | ||
| Post# 290989 , Reply# 3 7/29/2014 at 23:22 (3,556 days old) by marks_here (_._) | ||
Oh yeah
I got a rainbow e2 gold 2 speed, filthy and it held a big surprise after I opened it up...I contracted MRSA from it, was in the hospital for 2 weeks fighting for my life, almost put on life support, an operation every other day, 168 internal stitches, 68 external stitches & 1 gigantic scar on the left side of my chest. In the description on Ebay they said it was hardly used...LOL it was rode hard & literally put away wet!
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| Post# 290995 , Reply# 5 7/29/2014 at 23:35 (3,556 days old) by marks_here (_._) | ||
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| Post# 291004 , Reply# 6 7/30/2014 at 00:10 (3,556 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center) | ||
 Where on earth are you finding asbestos suits, Mark? Don't let OSHA see this thread!!!!
That's scary! I've never had any near-death experiences like that, although once I had a water pump explode its water tank thing a few feet away from me, I should get a tetnis shot with the work I do! Thinking back,I got cut on a Rug-Renovator once, if I stained the rug I would at-least be able to clean it up! That certain Renovator was just trouble, the first time it was I was up until midnight shampooing rugs because the belt fell off and I had done the entire room with no scrubbing! The second I cut myself on it, and then the sleeve bearings decided to snap in half, while I was shampooing carpets at church!I threw that Heritage I Renovator into it's box and shelfed it, hello Classic Rug-Renovator! | ||
| Post# 291006 , Reply# 7 7/30/2014 at 00:17 (3,556 days old) by marks_here (_._) | ||
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| Post# 291011 , Reply# 8 7/30/2014 at 00:40 (3,556 days old) by cb123 (Mobile, Al.) | ||
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| Post# 291012 , Reply# 9 7/30/2014 at 00:45 (3,556 days old) by marks_here (_._) | ||
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| Post# 291014 , Reply# 10 7/30/2014 at 01:05 (3,556 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center) | ||
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How was there still water in that basin? Did you take it from a sale, the trash, or was it even shipped that way? I was in my abandoned dream house once, the one with the power still on, the refrigerator was still keeping itself cold! I unplugged it because I don't want my dream house turning to ash, and I didn't DARE open that fridge! But hopefully that day will come, when I own that house and that fridge, and I open the fridge in the yard after 13-20 years of keeping itself cold with nobody to chill things for, and while wearing a rubber hazmat suit!!
Mark, consider changing your asbestos suit for a hazmat suit! 40-year old potty water in a rainbow is a grade 482 biohazard!! This post was last edited 07/30/2014 at 01:25 | ||
| Post# 291015 , Reply# 11 7/30/2014 at 01:13 (3,556 days old) by marks_here (_._) | ||
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It wasn't from the water, when I took it apart to clean the inside by the motor, it was all dusty & I don't think they used water in it so I sprayed the inside to clean it, it was clean, with the filter off the back I turned it on & something shout out of the exhaust port right into my lower side of my stomach, I didn't think anything of it until I pulled it out which was a piece of metal then all hell started for 2 days it wouldn't stop bleeding it wasn't a deep cut at all. Felt sick, running a fever, going through big bandages every 2 hours. Finally went to the dr. He looked at it, got me admitted to the hospital & at the end of the started the operations
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| Post# 291017 , Reply# 12 7/30/2014 at 01:23 (3,556 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center) | ||
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| Post# 291018 , Reply# 13 7/30/2014 at 01:26 (3,556 days old) by marks_here (_._) | ||
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| Post# 291021 , Reply# 14 7/30/2014 at 01:50 (3,556 days old) by super-sweeper (KSSRC Refurbishment Center) | ||
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VBS- vacuum bomb squad!
Ok,I have a backstory with my Kirby 511!
It was years ago, I was attending a summer camp at a church with a friend. Somehow,I forget how, an older lady (not elderly but not going to the disco nightly anymore!) Found out my interest in vacuum cleaners. She told me she had her mothers' Kirby vacuum cleaner. She gave me her phone number.
Time passed,I never heard back from Mrs.Sandy (her name). Until one day my grandmother was taking me on a surprise and random trip. We pulled into a driveway, and at the garage was nothing more than a Kirby model 511 in tan! Refurbished in 2001. The hose was rigged from pool hose, it had a upholstery nozzle from a Classic III, the original 511 wand and mummified dusting brush. It was tarnished and the bag was replaced with tan, but it was my first 500 series Kirby, and it was amazing. Mrs.Sandy still used an older Eureka F&G upright, along with a central vac. Oh! But the 511 did come with the original Handi-Butler and Miracle Head! | ||
| Post# 291025 , Reply# 15 7/30/2014 at 02:14 (3,556 days old) by vintagevaclover (Athens, GA) | ||
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Post# 291028 , Reply# 16 7/30/2014 at 02:43 (3,556 days old) by electrolux137  (Los Angeles) |
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~ What an awful story, Mark. MRSA is nothing to mess with. I have, in my dotage, become far more cautious when handling old vacuum cleaners. I always wear a respirator mask, goggles and gloves for the initial handling/inspection. And I'm careful not to let any clouds of dust spew out when taking a machine apart. Also, after a friend had an infestation of bed bugs a couple years ago, that's another worry I keep in mind. It's entirely possible that someone with bed bugs could vacuum up some of them. {{{*SHUDDER!!!*}}} Then there's the possibility of fleas, ticks, roaches....... You just NEVER know what kind of filth is in there! This post was last edited 07/30/2014 at 03:01 | ||
| Post# 291111 , Reply# 17 7/30/2014 at 17:10 (3,556 days old) by fan-of-fans (USA) | ||
I will start being more careful. I always throw old bags away immediately and remove as much dust as possible before working on a vacuum. I also prefer to wash all of the parts with hot soapy water before using a vacuum in the house. I try to leave them in the garage until then, but once in a while they come in before being totally clean. I really try to avoid bringing dirty vacuums inside though.
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| Post# 291120 , Reply# 18 7/30/2014 at 17:55 (3,556 days old) by tig21er (Indiana) | ||
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Mark, God was with you having a good Dr. and people that took care of you. I learned to be wary of other people's cleaners when I cleaned a Dyson and was down sick a whole week. What ever I had the doctor said I was lucky to have gotten better not knowing what was in the dust and dirt. 
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| Post# 291121 , Reply# 19 7/30/2014 at 17:56 (3,556 days old) by tig21er (Indiana) | ||
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Never clog or loses suction, Lot of false statements. 
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| Post# 291122 , Reply# 20 7/30/2014 at 17:57 (3,556 days old) by tig21er (Indiana) | ||
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Little seen dirt. 
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| Post# 291132 , Reply# 21 7/30/2014 at 20:07 (3,555 days old) by marks_here (_._) | ||
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Thank you John
Yes God was with me through that & also prepared me for the next task I had coming up in the fall even though I wasn't healed yet...that's when my partner was diagnosed with large B cell lymphoma (brain cancer) sadly it got him 1 year 2 months later... All is well I'm doing fine... I get down but at least I have this place to get my spirits up!
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| Post# 291144 , Reply# 22 7/30/2014 at 21:32 (3,555 days old) by cb123 (Mobile, Al.) | ||
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marks_here
AMEN! He's an ever present help in a time of trouble. Now that being said, that thing appeared to be more akin to an IED/biological weapon than an everyday, ordinary vacuum cleaner. Did you ever contact eBay or the seller, regarded your near death experience? Because if that poison hit your heart, that would have been all she wrote!
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| Post# 291156 , Reply# 23 7/30/2014 at 22:18 (3,555 days old) by marks_here (_._) | ||
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No I didn't, that was far from my mind at the time, heck I couldn't do much from June well past 2013. That really put the fear in me about anything from someone I don't know that's why I say please clean the machine, dump the bag or whatever make it presentable because I don't want to go through that ever again & the downside to all this is my immune system was shot to hell, I have to wear a mask when flu & cold season is going in the shops because people don't cover their mouth! BUT I'm alive!!!
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| Post# 291205 , Reply# 24 7/31/2014 at 02:02 (3,555 days old) by cb123 (Mobile, Al.) | ||
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| Post# 291289 , Reply# 26 7/31/2014 at 17:01 (3,555 days old) by stricklybojack (Southern California) | ||
my concern... | ||
| Post# 291341 , Reply# 27 7/31/2014 at 19:04 (3,555 days old) by kirbyezee1914 (Rochester, N.Y.) | ||
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| Post# 350015 , Reply# 28 4/10/2016 at 18:02 (2,936 days old) by floor-a-matic (somewhere) | ||
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How did MRSA get into a Rainbow? Did the previous owner vacuum hypodermic needles? Or was it used in a hospital? | ||
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