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Post# 294237   8/18/2014 at 10:50 (3,510 days old) by DesertTortoise ()        

Whadda ya think? Is it worth the high price of admission? It looks pristine but it's edging into new vacuum prices. Then again it might be a better made vacuum than what you buy today. Opinions please.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hoover-Dimension...


Post# 294238 , Reply# 1   8/18/2014 at 10:56 (3,510 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA)        

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I suppose if you just have to have one for a collection? Otherwise it seems a bit of a dear price to me.

Post# 294241 , Reply# 2   8/18/2014 at 11:02 (3,510 days old) by HooverCelebrity (Germany)        

Not without a powerhead it's not.

Post# 294242 , Reply# 3   8/18/2014 at 11:11 (3,510 days old) by DesertTortoise ()        

Underneath the big photo is a gallery that shows the power head is included along with wands and hose. The only thing I can see missing is one tool.

Post# 294248 , Reply# 4   8/18/2014 at 12:12 (3,510 days old) by Gr8DaneDad ()        

I dont' see a PN in any of the pictures, just the onboard attachments... even with a PN, it's a bit steep, but it does include shipping...


Post# 294249 , Reply# 5   8/18/2014 at 12:38 (3,510 days old) by DesertTortoise ()        

Yep. I'm confusing this listing with one for an older Hoover canister I was looking at that did include the power nozzle. My bad. Thanks. Yeah, without the power nozzle why bother? Still the only other one I have ever seen advertised was a canister with nothing else and even that was $50. Guess I'll give it a pass.

Post# 294260 , Reply# 6   8/18/2014 at 14:11 (3,510 days old) by orecklover ()        
DesertTortoise,

Before you decide on that machine, take a look at this one!

CLICK HERE TO GO TO orecklover's LINK on eBay


Post# 294270 , Reply# 7   8/18/2014 at 15:13 (3,510 days old) by DesertTortoise ()        

I've been watching that one.

What bit me is that if you read the original link it says "Hoover Dimension 1000 Canister Vacuum with Power Nozzle 4.0 HP! MODEL S3277", but looking at the photos of the vac there is no sign of a power nozzle anywhere. I asked the seller if there is a power nozzle or not. No reply yet.


Post# 294342 , Reply# 8   8/19/2014 at 01:17 (3,509 days old) by kenkart ()        
Good Grief..

That just isnt "Vintage" to me! I remember those new!

Post# 294343 , Reply# 9   8/19/2014 at 01:55 (3,509 days old) by electrolux137 (Los Angeles)        

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We're gettin' old, hunny.......



Post# 294344 , Reply# 10   8/19/2014 at 02:34 (3,509 days old) by bnsd60m9200 (Akron OH)        

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hans, if its an consolation, im only 29, and consider this "stuff" too new to be vintage. for me anything made before 1985 for me only reguards that... as for me that is the benchmark when most stuff in the home started going to crap. by that time i only like kirby, everything else was "junk" to me by then, even lux. for me, the zenith of appliances in general stopped around 1980.

Post# 294366 , Reply# 11   8/19/2014 at 09:19 (3,509 days old) by DesertTortoise ()        

It's still older than the sales staff at the Sears outlet store in town.

Post# 294369 , Reply# 12   8/19/2014 at 09:40 (3,509 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA)        

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Oh dear, and I totally get that! Have hit that age I think!

Post# 294376 , Reply# 13   8/19/2014 at 10:20 (3,509 days old) by DesertTortoise ()        

It's funny but the motorcycle I rode to work today I have owned longer than many of the engineers I work with have been alive. I will have owned it thirty years in October (I bought it new) and the data plate says it was manufactured in July 1984. 295,000 miles and still dead reliable (ok, not the original engine, the original lasted 210,000 miles). I'd load it up and ride it across the country tomorrow confident it would take me anywhere I want to go.

I look at these new engineers and think that I was flying aircraft in the Navy and riding motorcycles across the US, Europe and Australia before these men and women were even born. And I think I still have a at least three more good decades left in me (hope and cross my fingers).

What's also funny to me is that the aircraft I flew have long since been retired and replaced by newer models (one aircraft I flew is on display on the deck of the USS Midway, my log shows seven flights and 14 hours in that BUNO), and the only ships still in commission today that were in commission when I served are the USS Nimitz and a couple of her early sisters along with a handful of Ticonderoga class cruisers. All the rest are long gone, replaced by newer and much better ships and most of the Nimitz and Ticonderoga class ships were completed after I left the Navy. I remember when they were brand new ships and now the Navy is discussing their retirement. Ships who's decks I walked or whos flight decks I landed on are long ago scrapped or in a very few cases like the New Jersey and USCGC Taney turned into memorials. I remember them as living breathing combat ships.



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