Thread Number: 31988
/ Tag: 50s/60s/70s Vacuum Cleaners
My Home-Made Electrolux |
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Post# 352432   5/19/2016 at 12:55 (2,869 days old) by electrolux137 (Los Angeles)   |   | |
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When I was seven years old and in the Second Grade at school, I made "my own Electrolux." |
Post# 352433 , Reply# 1   5/19/2016 at 13:00 (2,869 days old) by vacuumlad1650 (Wauponsee, IL)   |   | |
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Post# 352567 , Reply# 3   5/21/2016 at 10:24 (2,867 days old) by electrolux137 (Los Angeles)   |   | |
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No, sad to say, it's long gone. It was back in 1963 when I made it. I kept it hidden away in my inner sanctum. I don't recall what became of it but possibly my parents, not inclined to indulge my fascination with vacuum cleaners, found it and threw it out. Or maybe my sister needed her roller skate back. |
Post# 352586 , Reply# 4   5/21/2016 at 12:50 (2,867 days old) by gsheen (Cape Town South Africa)   |   | |
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The first one I remember was taking a fabric softener bottle and attaching a piece of hose to it, and using some wheels from large truck. Then some time later I took a sqaure plastic dustbin and made a sled type vacuum, enclosing teh front with cardboard, When I was a young teen I built a shopvac style vacuum using a motor my dad had gotten me from a repair shop and a large metal drum.
In high school we had to do a business economics proejct showing and plan with models from concept to production, I designed and built my own shopvac style vacuum, I had the original sketches from concept to actual production draft drawings, I made a few different prototypes and test models aswell as a finished product |