Here's a quick update, I've gotten a good amount of new vacuums recently but I'd just like to share my experience with one. It's a Eureka Excalibur canister, the top of the line Quiet Kleen model. I bought it from Kyle Krichbaum, and am very happy with it. It's assembled very oddly, the back part of the vacuum pulls out of the main unit and is only held in with clips and two tiny screws, but I have the thing all cleaned up and working very nicely. It's not in any way put together how a Miele is, that's more like layers of the vacuum stacked, the Eureka splits basically. The Eureka's main bag housing is also somehow fused together so you couldn't really do a deep clean on the bag compartment. This one takes MEGA bags, but I don't have the energy to go get a pack, I wedged a Bissell style 7 bag and it's been working just fine. This one has the world vac power head (with an extremely loud motor, but that's normal. Just weird how loud it is and nobody mentions it) and original lightbulb still functioning. The cleaning tools are great, the synthetic dusting brush is still very soft despite the bristle length, it had done some good dusting for me. I broke the power button trying to figure out how to get it off, but it had one clip left so it's still on there.

It's been molded in a dark green color, a very nice one. I needed to polish the vac so unfortunately I did take off the original sticker showing all of its features, it's still resting in my collectibles drawer though. The canister cleans very satisfactory, and had a quiet main suction motor. On the filter grille, it says "filter check" and has two molded holes that just show the filter. I have no idea what this is for, why there are two holes, and the filter isn't even on the side facing up showing how much carbon dust is coming out of the motor. Last thing to mention is the pre motor filter, the thing is huge. I need to recut one because my current has sand caught within the fibers, but it just stunned me on the size of it, and the fact that there's no official seating position or cage to put the filter in, you just kinda set it in front of the motor and when it's powered on it sucks the filter close so no dirt gets into motor.

I see no other acknowledgement on this vacuum, other than on newspapers.com, which I'll be showing a snip of below. If you're considering getting one, and its a good price ($50 or below) buy it. It'll resell on eBay (maybe to me) at the least. I've got a lot of collector friends jealous of my find.

Thanks, Garrett

I was just chatting about the Europa with some other collectors recently. They were also called the Home Cleaning System or something similar, one in blue just went up for sale in craigslist in my area. The Europa I really want though is the one with electronic motor speed control in the handle, and main power switch in handle. I wonder if I could try to get the power nozzle motor quiet, use the same padding technique that sharp would use to make their Twin Energy "library quiet". One more version of that style was also called an Excalibur, though I don't know the difference between them. It's surely cool that these Eureka canisters from the 90's that we have are Sweden made, they really perform like it!

Yes I saw the Volta versions of both, one day after I had bought mine and it was being shipped to my house I got recommended a video of one and thought it was amazing, told some other collectors. It was a very weird thing to see that with the slider electronic speed control where on my version its just a panel with a single non functional bag check light.