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Thread Number: 27917
/ Tag: 50s/60s/70s Vacuum Cleaners
Private Labeled Vorwerk |
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| Post# 311914 1/14/2015 at 11:57 (3,386 days old) by dysonman1 (the county) | ||
I was given this Vorwerk upright today. It's in immaculate condition. There is no bag in it, but I believe the bag looked like a Hoover type C bag with a cardboard stiffener around the open end. Anyone have a spare paper bag?
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| Post# 311915 , Reply# 1 1/14/2015 at 11:59 (3,386 days old) by dysonman1 (the county) | ||
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It's labeled for Advance (a commercial vacuum manufacturer) as Maintenance Marketing Inc. I believe it was sold as a light weight commercial vacuum. It's just a modern copy of a twin-motor Air-Way Sanitary System from the 1930's.
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| Post# 311916 , Reply# 2 1/14/2015 at 12:00 (3,386 days old) by dysonman1 (the county) | ||
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It has a unique edge cleaning brush. Never saw one like this before.
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| Post# 311917 , Reply# 3 1/14/2015 at 12:01 (3,386 days old) by dysonman1 (the county) | ||
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| Post# 311926 , Reply# 5 1/14/2015 at 13:25 (3,386 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa) | ||
Hi Tom
Here is the origional paperbag for this unit. When you bought them from Voorwerk you would get the little plastic adapter . Does your one have the adaptor | ||
| Post# 311927 , Reply# 6 1/14/2015 at 13:28 (3,386 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa) | ||
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| Post# 311938 , Reply# 7 1/14/2015 at 14:20 (3,386 days old) by dysonman1 (the county) | ||
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| Post# 311940 , Reply# 8 1/14/2015 at 14:29 (3,386 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa) | ||
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| Post# 312121 , Reply# 9 1/15/2015 at 15:10 (3,385 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa) | ||
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Tom I belive Advance eventually copied this unit and made their own rather odd looking one with square edges and a square tube handle
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| Post# 312122 , Reply# 10 1/15/2015 at 15:17 (3,385 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa) | ||
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Here is my Vk117 just like yours fitted with the same Et10 head. I have a few of them This one still needing restoration ( new motor bearings , their a bit noisy )
The Vk120 on the left is a rare one here as its fitted with the ET 30 head( these were mostly fitted to 117's It must also be restored and its bag redyed
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| Post# 312124 , Reply# 11 1/15/2015 at 15:32 (3,385 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa) | ||
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My Vk 116 with polisher head attachment and a VK 117 with the et 30 head and most of its attachments. The hose has to be the shortest in vacuum history. The idea was you put the small handle on and carried the machine to use its attachments. Apparently been able to vacuum your car was not high on the list of VK117 owners :)
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| Post# 312196 , Reply# 12 1/16/2015 at 12:29 (3,384 days old) by dysonman1 (the county) | ||
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| Post# 312204 , Reply# 13 1/16/2015 at 14:57 (3,384 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa) | ||
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They were hugely popular over here in the 70's and 80's They were Kirbys biggest competition at half the weight. I wondered how it would suck with 110v. I have often noticed a huge difference in suction power between my 110 and 220v versions of the same machine. They actually did rather ok in 220v and this improved with the 120 and even more with the 121 and 122 . After that they switched to clean air system with the 130 and the reliability went down the drain. I had never seen so many vorweks in my workshop with burnt out motors. They were super powerful but didn't last long. 135 was not any better. The 140 used a brush less drive motor wich did away with the reliability issues , The bags were now hepa filtered so their is no expensive hepa filter to replace. Down side is the machine has lost its quietness it was renowned for.
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| Post# 312209 , Reply# 14 1/16/2015 at 15:08 (3,384 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa) | ||
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| Post# 313438 , Reply# 15 1/26/2015 at 15:22 (3,374 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa) | ||
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Post# 313497 , Reply# 16 1/27/2015 at 02:58 (3,374 days old) by tolivac  (Greenville,NC) |
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The last time I saw a Vorwerk vacuum system was in the trade in pile of Star Vacuum,outside of Wash DC.Didn't collect vacuums at that time-now I wished I had it.Sort of a German Kirby?? | ||
| Post# 313521 , Reply# 17 1/27/2015 at 12:01 (3,373 days old) by dysonman1 (the county) | ||
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| Post# 313612 , Reply# 19 1/27/2015 at 23:56 (3,373 days old) by Ultralux88 (Denver, Colorado) | ||
Here's the more square looking Mighty Maid you mentioned, however its just a newer style Vorwerk machine with their name on it, I had to track down a Vorwerk brush roll for this one, it was minus a brush when I got it.
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