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Post# 414130   9/22/2019 at 18:34 (1,671 days old) by rodknock95 (Salem, Missouri)        



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Post# 414132 , Reply# 1   9/22/2019 at 18:57 (1,671 days old) by MadMan (Chicago, IL, USA)        

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Eww...

Post# 414135 , Reply# 2   9/22/2019 at 21:52 (1,671 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana)        

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She has been sitting ever since new. That's a couple decades of water damage, mold, and corrosion building up on top of itself. My G5 Kirby is the same. Under all the filth it is a brand new shiny vacuum.





You cannot kill a Kirby, so do not worry about what it looks. Just hit it with a soap and water bath and then some wire brushing and polish and it will clean right up.


Post# 414136 , Reply# 3   9/22/2019 at 22:05 (1,671 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina)        

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I think the brush roll is probably toast, but everything else is likely salvageable. Take your time and make it shine!

Post# 415175 , Reply# 4   10/22/2019 at 17:32 (1,641 days old) by Rowdy141 (United Kingdom)        

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Amazing that so many people, can spend so much on a new vacuum, then treat it like that. And after such a relatively short time. The other extreme is those Kirbys still boxed and unused.

Post# 415178 , Reply# 5   10/22/2019 at 19:15 (1,641 days old) by RugPileDial ()        

Yuck! If that’s restorable (and I believe you that it is) I have been very fortunate in the ones I have found. I won’t complain again about having to remove a little hair from the brush roll! I’d like to see it when it’s done.

Post# 415192 , Reply# 6   10/23/2019 at 02:04 (1,641 days old) by tolivac (Greenville,NC)        

Looks like it was on the bottom of a lake!-But she'll clean up.


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