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Thread Number: 32964
/ Tag: 50s/60s/70s Vacuum Cleaners
Can Your Vacuum Flock a Tree? |
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| Post# 360472 10/6/2016 at 14:22 (2,757 days old) by Suckomatic (Deer Park) | ||
 What is THIS kooky business??? What is that, a Hoover Portable? How does this work? Can I persuade my Kirby to do this? My friends would laugh themselves into a stupor if they caught me doing this to a Xmas tree (which would make it all worth while).
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| Post# 360473 , Reply# 1 10/6/2016 at 14:40 (2,757 days old) by Suckomatic (Deer Park) | ||
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I've Answered My Own Question I just tried to find aerosol cans of flocking, and the first thing that popped up was this flocking kit! It looks like any vacuum with an employable exhaust can do this. Eeeeee! | ||
| Post# 360476 , Reply# 2 10/6/2016 at 15:10 (2,756 days old) by rugsucker (Elizabethton TN) | ||
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Tree Flocking "a Hoover Portable"?--No!The more rare RCA Whirlpool of the late 50s. "Kirby--do this"?Yes,if you connect the hose to the blower unlike the Eureka in pic 3. I remember this being in a Sears catalog of about the early 60s. | ||
| Post# 360478 , Reply# 3 10/6/2016 at 15:40 (2,756 days old) by Caligula (Wallingford, Connecticut) | ||
It was once done in California. 
Flocking Christmas trees was common in the 1930's especially in Southern California. It was used to create the 'white Christmas' effect.
Many vacuum cleaner companies used this as one more use for the spray gun, and several old time radio shows like Burns and Allen, Fibber Mc'Gee and Molly, Jack Benny and others spoke of flocking the tree with the vacuum cleaner (sprayer.) | ||
| Post# 360485 , Reply# 4 10/6/2016 at 16:36 (2,756 days old) by Suckomatic (Deer Park) | ||
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Cool Thanks rugmun, er-uh... rugsucker. HA! I didn't even notice she's flocking that tree in the suck, um,... hole. *snort* Cool bit of history there, caligula. I used to work for a big nursery in Michigan. We used to sell Xmas trees during the winter and had a greenhouse dedicated to flocking. I'm sure they still do it. It may be a little cheesy, but it's a fun look for an occasional change of pace. I am absolutely doing this this year. | ||
| Post# 360488 , Reply# 5 10/6/2016 at 17:44 (2,756 days old) by mchmike (West palm beach fl) | ||
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I could use a good flocker | ||
| Post# 360491 , Reply# 6 10/6/2016 at 17:54 (2,756 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA) | ||
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| Post# 360496 , Reply# 7 10/6/2016 at 18:53 (2,756 days old) by vacerator (Macomb Michigan) | ||
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Mike, as long as it isn't from a hurricane. Hope you are out of there, or at a shelter. | ||
| Post# 360502 , Reply# 8 10/6/2016 at 19:53 (2,756 days old) by Caligula (Wallingford, Connecticut) | ||
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We always had a real tree. | ||
| Post# 360504 , Reply# 9 10/6/2016 at 20:36 (2,756 days old) by mchmike (West palm beach fl) | ||
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It just rained but if you watched the news the sky opened with a bright light and you heard a booming voice say come up hither.
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| Post# 360505 , Reply# 10 10/6/2016 at 20:46 (2,756 days old) by kenkart () | ||
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Re Flocker... My Christmas Light Collecting Husband has one of these contraptions, NIB. | ||
| Post# 360506 , Reply# 11 10/6/2016 at 20:52 (2,756 days old) by chad (texas) | ||
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Everyone talks about aluminum trees, (or is that just Charlie Brown Christmas). Do they exist? | ||
| Post# 360513 , Reply# 13 10/6/2016 at 22:54 (2,756 days old) by kenkart () | ||
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ALUMINUM TREES! Gosh yes they are real....We have about 10 of them! LOL | ||
| Post# 360517 , Reply# 14 10/7/2016 at 07:16 (2,756 days old) by vacerator (Macomb Michigan) | ||
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Aluminum tree; with a spinning color light. Yes, the news over dramatizes most events, but it is a cat. 3 storm still, and the Miami int., and FTL. airports are still idled. | ||
| Post# 360520 , Reply# 15 10/7/2016 at 07:55 (2,756 days old) by vacerator (Macomb Michigan) | ||
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Re; 3'rd photo in reply #1. How can one flock a tree with Eureka Mobile Air with the hose on the suction side? | ||
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