Thread Number: 40616
/ Tag: 80s/90s Vacuum Cleaners
Vintage Oreck Upright Vacuums |
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Post# 431494 , Reply# 1   9/8/2020 at 18:36 (1,318 days old) by bagintheback (Flagstaff, Arizona)   |   | |
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Any Oreck XL made after 1997 will take the "CC" style bags, where the bag collar slides into a usually blue dock. Older ones are just like other vacuums where you fit the bag over the spout manually. I haven't opened up an Oreck recently, but you may be able to find a date stamp etched into the plastic somewhere in the base. One of those circle ones with an arrow pointing to the date. It's much easier with Hoovers, where the serial number always starts with DD/YY, which I think started sometime in the mid-80s.
I'm probably in the minority in Vacuumland when it comes to Orecks, but other than their super loud noise, I think they're great vacuums. Aside from the XL21, they've pretty much used the exact same parts for nearly 3 decades, so you can fix an early 90s model the same as one bought today. But that also makes it difficult to know which years a model was sold. From the pictures I've found of the models, the XL 9100 looks older and probably mid-late 90s, and the XL2700RH was probably sold until the very early 2000s. I used to get the Oreck catalogs in the mail, starting around 2004 when the XL2 came out. I don't remember any of those models in those catalogs. The XL2700RH style was sold until the mid-2000s but it had an AM-FM radio built in the handle. Maybe someone else knows more! |
Post# 432800 , Reply# 2   9/29/2020 at 15:49 (1,297 days old) by EurekaFanSquid (Sacramento, California)   |   | |
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