Thread Number: 37896
/ Tag: 80s/90s Vacuum Cleaners
Grandma still has Rainbow after all |
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Post# 403978   1/12/2019 at 18:17 (1,901 days old) by fan-of-fans (USA)   |   | |
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My grandma used to have a Rainbow D4 ever since I was a kid. But a few years ago she had gotten a Bissell bagless upright (I forget what model). I know it was around 2012 because I'd gotten my Kenmore Progressive that year and she said she'd gotten a new vacuum too.
Well I hadn't seen that Rainbow whenever I'd go to her house since, and she had gotten wood floors so I figured she must have gotten rid of it. Because I don't think she vacuums much anymore other than mopping the floors. But the other day she was talking about how she was doing a deep clean around the house and she had gotten out her Rainbow and had been using it. So I was glad to hear she still has it and is putting it to use. |
Post# 403979 , Reply# 1   1/12/2019 at 18:42 (1,901 days old) by KirbyClassicIII (Milwaukie, Oregon)   |   | |
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My grandparents still have their 1975 Rainbow D2 to this day... in this case, though, they are the second owners of the machine (since the mid-1980s).
~Ben
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Post# 403999 , Reply# 2   1/13/2019 at 07:51 (1,901 days old) by Firebirdman55 (Owensboro Kentucky)   |   | |
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Post# 404001 , Reply# 3   1/13/2019 at 09:36 (1,901 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina)   |   | |
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Post# 404004 , Reply# 4   1/13/2019 at 11:17 (1,901 days old) by KirbyClassicIII (Milwaukie, Oregon)   |   | |
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Post# 404008 , Reply# 5   1/13/2019 at 12:33 (1,901 days old) by rivstg1 (colorado springs)   |   | |
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Post# 404079 , Reply# 6   1/14/2019 at 16:40 (1,899 days old) by fan-of-fans (USA)   |   | |
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Post# 404082 , Reply# 8   1/14/2019 at 18:12 (1,899 days old) by rivstg1 (colorado springs)   |   | |
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Post# 404088 , Reply# 9   1/14/2019 at 21:28 (1,899 days old) by fan-of-fans (USA)   |   | |
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If I recall right the main difference was the SE had the direct connect hose with gas pump handle and also they introduced the mini power nozzle then. So dates on parts on machine might be earlier, since it was mostly the hose that changed.
But 1986 would be plain D4 machine with separate PN cord run up the hose to machine and curved metal handle. Pretty sure PN2 came out in 1996 with the Performance Edition. |
Post# 404093 , Reply# 10   1/14/2019 at 22:08 (1,899 days old) by rivstg1 (colorado springs)   |   | |
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Your last msg motivated me to go look at my machine again. It is an SE and the date inside the machine show ‘85 & ‘86 so isn’t that logical that hose number represent the most resaonsablw dates to use??
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Post# 404261 , Reply# 11   1/19/2019 at 00:22 (1,895 days old) by fan-of-fans (USA)   |   | |
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This site gives the date code info:
myrainbowsystem.com/rainbow-seri... Also for what it's worth, Rainbow's website states the D4 was introduced in 1986. rainbowsystem.com/about-us/our-hi... Wikipedia shows the SE V1 came in 1990 and V2 (which I would assume is the Performance Edition) came in 1994. So I was wrong on the date for that second one. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rexair... |