Thread Number: 37175  /  Tag: 50s/60s/70s Vacuum Cleaners
Kirby floor attachment
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Post# 397012   8/20/2018 at 12:00 (2,047 days old) by Rivstg1 (colorado springs)        

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I got this photo out of a 561 mode owners manual and wondered if any of you Kirbybowners use the dusting pad attachment to the hard floor nozzle? I hadn’t thought of doing this before. In another forum post here I showed a photo of that dusting attachment to the power nozzle on my 516 and it worked great, but , as others have mentioned, you may not be able to clean under counters ( floor) w/the whole Kirby head, so this photo shows how to overcome that.

Any of you use these attachments this way? ( yes I’m aware it’s more ‘hassle’). ;-)

Kelton


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Post# 397113 , Reply# 1   8/22/2018 at 12:55 (2,045 days old) by sopranojam85 (Austin, TX)        

I recall the Classic Omega had that. The user manual (downloadable from www.kirby.com/Manuals/Old... ) states on page 23 "To prevent possible scratching of hard surface floors, such as varnished floors, the Surface Nozzle should be used with the Floor Duster Pad."

Post# 397130 , Reply# 2   8/22/2018 at 21:14 (2,045 days old) by texaskirbyguy (Plano, TX)        

I found the felt pad just pushed the dust around and the dust would stick to it. Therefore I have never used it (I have vinyl and tile for hard floors.)
One could 'super-dust' their floors with the felt pad after having vacuumed without it, but that is a bit excessive.
I believe it was more for buffing waxed wood floors, or as mentioned above, protecting varnished floors. Floors like that seemed to have almost vanished these days..


Post# 397159 , Reply# 3   8/23/2018 at 14:03 (2,044 days old) by Vacuumdevil (Vacuum Hell )        

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they used the same felt pads on filter Queens Kirby's and quite a few vacuums back in the day they're mostly useless. As stated above they push stuff around. but a nice novelty to have to complete a collection.


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