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Thread Number: 40489
/ Tag: 80s/90s Vacuum Cleaners
Eureka ! |
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| Post# 429932 , Reply# 1 8/13/2020 at 11:38 (1,344 days old) by Ultralux88 (Denver, Colorado) | ||
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| Post# 429941 , Reply# 2 8/13/2020 at 13:11 (1,344 days old) by Lesinutah (Utah) | ||
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| Post# 429942 , Reply# 3 8/13/2020 at 14:23 (1,344 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
Eureka has always been my favourite vacuum brand.
If you get a new-in-box old stock (or barely used) Eureka from anytime between 1960 and 1990, you are assured of a really great cleaner. For uprights, go for any model in the 2000 series from the 1970's, or an Ultra from the 1980's. New Sanitaire uprights with the ST disposable bag are excellent classic Eureka cleaners. "EUREKA: The very best in vacuum cleaners." | ||
| Post# 429963 , Reply# 4 8/13/2020 at 17:27 (1,344 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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Here is a classic Eureka upright from the early 1980's in excellent condition. I have no connection to the seller, but this self-propelled vac looks fantastic ... a great addition to any collection...
CLICK HERE TO GO TO eurekaprince's LINK on eBay | ||
Post# 429972 , Reply# 5 8/13/2020 at 19:11 (1,344 days old) by Durango159  (State College, PA) |
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There are great performers. 
Sanitaire Direct Air, otherwise known as Dirty Air vacs are very good performers. They are powerful with great air flow and there are numerous brush rolls to choose from to suit your needs.
Many models have a Shake Out bag. That style was meant for commercial building cleaning where a company didn't want to purchase bags all the time. The power is there but the filtration is not. They are known for spewing visible dusts in the air during use, especially after dumping. However, you can get an F&G or ST disposable bag set up on them and have far better filtration for your home environment. My preference is towards the 5 Amp ones. The 5 Amps had great power, they were very pleasant sounding and they actually cleaned mats and throw rugs, removing the dirt from them while not trying to eat the entire carpet. The 7 amp ones are very strong performers and many feel they are a little too strong. They can have a tendency to stick to some rugs like glue and especially for throw rugs and mats, you may be looking at doing forward strokes only so as not to eat the carpet so much. Also, be warned that the 7 amp machines made in recent years have a much more shrill sound to them that is not near as pleasing to the ear compared to models made in the 80s, 90s and early 2000s. Someone else made have knowledge as to exactly when the motor change occurred for that series. | ||
| Post# 429976 , Reply# 6 8/13/2020 at 21:23 (1,344 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
Nice machines...
While Electrolux and Kirby are my two favorite brands, I do like 1970s and '80s vintage Eurekas. I had a beautiful 1977 vintage Eureka Princess canister with all the accessories. I hate that it got away from me. I have a slightly newer one now that came to me with only a hose, to which I made a slight modification so I could use an Electrolux 1205 wand with it and thus Electrolux power nozzles.
I've got an early '80s vintage Sanitaire SC686 that's pretty much a beast. I've changed the bag setup on it where it now uses F&G paper bags, which is very convenient and a hell of a lot less messy than a dump bag. The thing that amazes me is how ridiculously cheap replacement parts are for those machines and they're designed to be repaired with a minimum of effort, presumably to minimize downtime in a commercial environment. | ||
| Post# 430007 , Reply# 7 8/14/2020 at 11:56 (1,343 days old) by portapower (BRUNSWICK) | ||
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Eureka ! Thanks everyone for the great info. I ended up getting a Sanitaire model #S663D on Ebay for $55.00. My very first Eureka/Sanitaire. When I get it I'll post pics. | ||
| Post# 430030 , Reply# 8 8/15/2020 at 00:01 (1,342 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana) | ||
Dirty fan cleaner. Great, simple, rugged vacuums. Just a big motor attached to a brushroll and that's about all there is to them. A tried and true design.
Their main problem and why I suspect people hate them, is the belt and fan are prone to damage from picking up large hard objects when people do not scan over the floor before vacuuming it. The belt is right in the dirt path and can get nicked and when it has enough nicks in it, it snaps apart. As long as you watch what you pick up there's nothing to worry about. $55 for a Sanitaire is a great deal. I have seen people get into bidding wars on them a lot higher. | ||
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Post# 430053 , Reply# 10 8/15/2020 at 10:35 (1,342 days old) by Durango159 (State College, PA) |
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| Post# 430079 , Reply# 11 8/15/2020 at 13:27 (1,342 days old) by Lesinutah (Utah) | ||
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Eureka
The eureka round belts made by eureka or sanitaire work great. I attached a link for them.
If you adjust the height turn off the vacuum. This is where I believe the belts get ruined. The belt is spinning around the motor and brushroll it gets hot. If you adjust the height while it's still spinning a hot belt will split like butter. I'm basing the following knowledge off of research I've tried to do. The motors on 3 amp where a different motor type. The 5.0 amp all the 5-7 amp variations, a 7.2 amp used by nisflick and Kent up to the 8.5 amp motor. There all motors with the same chassis. The bigger motors have beefeier armature etc. I have 3 7 amp eureka/sanitaires. They all are very powerful cleaning machines. I think the brushroll vibragroomer or vg1 is the loudest. The vg2 is half as loud and the vg3 is in between. The brushrolls have beater bars. It beats as it sweeps as it cleans may ring a bell. The beat is from the beater bar beating the carpet causing the dirt to come up from the vibration. If you understand the beater bar makes most the noise. The bigger motors are a little louder. The bigger the motor the more the brush roll will soon. If it spins it means it's going to beat faster and than means louder. F&G setup works very well. The s&t setup is even better. They do have an upright attachment kit that runs $30-$50. This attaches and let's you use a hose. The last feature is if you click the handle release twice it lays the handle flat to the ground. This makes it easy to vacuum under a bed or any low location. I only posted all this info so when you use the vacuum you understand the science or reasoning behind it. Les CLICK HERE TO GO TO Lesinutah's LINK | ||
| Post# 430103 , Reply# 12 8/15/2020 at 17:05 (1,342 days old) by portapower (BRUNSWICK) | ||
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Glad everyone is keeping this Eureka thread going. Just have a quick question. I'm an amateur at this and don't know what a "ST" bag conversion is. If it's something that I might want to do, where do I get the parts and how hard is it to do the conversion? | ||
| Post# 430109 , Reply# 13 8/15/2020 at 17:38 (1,342 days old) by Lesinutah (Utah) | ||
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Libks
The first link is everything. The second link doesn't show inside the bag but is the same thing.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/273450367822... The f@g fill tube has another fill tube put into the f&g setup. If you buy the bag pictured you pretty much undo the 2 screws holding on the current bag. You install with two screws. I bought the bag like in the link. Les CLICK HERE TO GO TO Lesinutah's LINK on eBay | ||
| Post# 430150 , Reply# 14 8/16/2020 at 10:58 (1,341 days old) by portapower (BRUNSWICK) | ||
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Les. Thanks for the info and links. | ||
| Post# 430169 , Reply# 15 8/16/2020 at 18:13 (1,341 days old) by Lesinutah (Utah) | ||
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