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Thread Number: 32731
/ Tag: 80s/90s Vacuum Cleaners
IBM Handheld Vacuum |
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| Post# 358620 9/2/2016 at 19:11 (2,790 days old) by rohmell (New York -> Long Island) | ||
Hello all,
I have a handheld vacuum cleaner with the IBM logo on it. I don't know the vintage, maybe 70s-80s, and I believe it was made for the IBM Field Engineers to use when they went out to service the mainframes. Does anyone have one of these in their collection? Does anyone know the OEM of the vac? If there'a any interest, i can take some pics and post 'em up here. | ||
Post# 358682 , Reply# 1 9/4/2016 at 02:38 (2,788 days old) by KirbyClassicIII  (Milwaukie, Oregon) |
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rohmell | ||
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Post# 358685 , Reply# 2 9/4/2016 at 06:23 (2,788 days old) by tolivac (Greenville,NC) |
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Do you have a picture of this machine? Is it similar to the 3M copier-printer tech's vacuum? | ||
| Post# 358713 , Reply# 3 9/4/2016 at 17:44 (2,788 days old) by rohmell (New York -> Long Island) | ||
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Here Are Some Pics
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| Post# 358715 , Reply# 4 9/4/2016 at 17:54 (2,788 days old) by rohmell (New York -> Long Island) | ||
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An Old Ebay Listing
With a Different part Number on it:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ibm-1245521-Aspi... CLICK HERE TO GO TO rohmell's LINK on eBay | ||
| Post# 358737 , Reply# 5 9/4/2016 at 23:45 (2,787 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
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| Post# 358859 , Reply# 7 9/6/2016 at 16:29 (2,786 days old) by sptyks (Skowhegan, Maine) | ||
 Back in the day when I used to service printers for HP, we had special vacuums that used special bags and had a very dense pre-motor filter between the bag and motor. The toner dust in older laser printers was highly explosive!
If the Field Service technician was unaware of this and used a regular vacuum cleaner to clean up a toner spill it could ruin their day. If any toner dust made it through the bag and into the motor commutator area it was bad news! The arcing between the brushes and commutator would ignite the toner dust and BANG!!! Not only would the vacuum cleaner be in pieces, but a few technicians suffered severe burns if they were standing too close to the vacuum.
I believe this is no longer an issue because Toner has been reformulated and is no longer explosive.
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| Post# 358860 , Reply# 8 9/6/2016 at 16:31 (2,786 days old) by sptyks (Skowhegan, Maine) | ||
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Post# 358888 , Reply# 10 9/7/2016 at 03:33 (2,785 days old) by tolivac (Greenville,NC) |
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Thought of another thing-use a vacuum cleaner with a FULL BYPASS motor if cleaning toners.Then no danger of it getting into the motor itself-at worst only the fans and fancase. | ||
| Post# 359092 , Reply# 11 9/10/2016 at 20:24 (2,782 days old) by rohmell (New York -> Long Island) | ||
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Here is Douglas' | ||
| Post# 359093 , Reply# 12 9/10/2016 at 20:26 (2,782 days old) by rohmell (New York -> Long Island) | ||
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And Sears | ||
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