Thread Number: 42226
/ Tag: 80s/90s Vacuum Cleaners
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Post# 444630   8/10/2021 at 17:55 (960 days old) by fantomfan57 (Central Texas)   |   | |
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Motor sounds great, need: Bag/topper/guard Brown oval Emptor tray And what belt should I use? Thanks in advance. |
Post# 444644 , Reply# 1   8/11/2021 at 04:04 (960 days old) by KirbyClassicIII (Milwaukie, Oregon)   |   | |
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Post# 444722 , Reply# 5   8/14/2021 at 22:53 (956 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina)   |   | |
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I don't own a Classic but I do have a soft spot for them, especially the Classic Omega. That's the model my mom and I saw demonstrated in our living room when I was a kid. We didn't get it but that's where my lifelong appreciation of Kirbys started. I saw a really nice one at a thrift store a few years for $10 with no accessories. I would have bought it but somebody else was already looking at it so I decided to be a gentleman about it and instead of trying to get it away from him, I showed him how to operate it properly. He bought it and I hope he's still enjoying it.
Last year, I was looking for a few missing pieces to complete the tool set for my Heritage 1D and came up with a nearly complete Classic Omega tool set for cheap, so I bought it. My original plan was to keep the pieces I needed and sell the rest either individually or together to recoup my expenses or even make a buck but I couldn't bring myself to break up the set. The plastics are a slightly reddish shade of brown, somewhat different from the original classic tools, which were more of a chocolate brown. My friend is a little obsessed with Shopgoodwill.com right now and she alerted me to a Classic III with a full set of accessories that was going for $9.99 with one bid. Thus far, I'm being strong and not letting her become my enabler by resisting logging in and even taking a look at it much less making a bid. Oh what the hell, one look won't hurt...right? |
Post# 444732 , Reply# 7   8/15/2021 at 09:43 (956 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina)   |   | |
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Shipping on that unit isn't too bad—$12.70 plus a $2 handling fee. I'm sure it would have been closer to $50 on eBay. I haven't bid on it (yet) and I'm still not convinced I'm going to. It's still got several days to run, so we'll see what happens. In looking at the photos, it doesn't have a full tool kit as my friend said but it does have the essentials—a hose, hard to find long wand, curved wand, dusting brush, upholstery brush, what I call a car vacuuming brush and a package of two flat Hoover branded belts. Not sure if those will actually work with that machine or not.
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Post# 444770 , Reply# 9   8/16/2021 at 13:38 (954 days old) by Lesinutah (Utah)   |   | |
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Post# 444795 , Reply# 11   8/16/2021 at 22:20 (954 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina)   |   | |
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fantomfan57 wrote:
On the other hand, it would be really odd if this is the same one that found it's way back. (insert eerie music here). I reply: I had a similar thought after rescuing my first Kirby G6 from beside a dumpster and then finding the correct tool set for it at a nearby thrift shop a couple months later. I've often wondered if I reunited them. It wasn't a vacuum cleaner, but I had a girlfriend a few years ago whose next door neighbor had a nicely restored '67 Mercury Comet convertible. He'd bought it at a junk yard as a restoration project because he'd had one like it that he'd bought new and always regretted getting rid of. What he didn't realize until later was his restoration project was indeed his original car. |
Post# 444940 , Reply# 13   8/21/2021 at 09:30 (950 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina)   |   | |
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Okay, so my friend is now officially an enabler. That Classic III went all week without another bid so my addictive personality got the better of me and I just had to throw one out at the very end and got it for $12. Even with shipping, handling, and sales tax, I'm all in for about $28.50, which isn't too bad and a definite steal by eBay standards. I guess Shopgoodwill.com is still flying under the radar for some things. The long wand alone can go for almost that much on eBay.
I've included the photos from the listing and it appears to me that other than a dusty bag, it's in pretty good shape. The metal even appears to be relatively clean. I think it's a very pretty machine in its bright red livery but I am totally not a fan of dump bags, I'm toying with the idea of converting it to a Heritage II filter bag setup. I've got the bag, fill tube and the connector for the top of the tube; I just need the mini emptor. Ironically, that one piece would cost me more on eBay than the whole vacuum did. I'm not going to make any major decisions about that until I have the machine in my possession and can make a more thorough assessment. I'll start a new thread at that time. |
Post# 444953 , Reply# 14   8/21/2021 at 13:33 (949 days old) by fantomfan57 (Central Texas)   |   | |
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Human!, You did it! I am so glad for you! What a fun new project! Okay, sorry, got carried away. Congratulations! Cheers! |
Post# 444970 , Reply# 16   8/21/2021 at 21:02 (949 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina)   |   | |
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Yeah, this one was just too good to pass up--especially for the price. The hose alone would go for more than that on eBay. The condition of the metal is what really put me over the edge toward buying it.
That was my first experience with ShopGoodwill. The site is certainly less refined than eBay. Kind of reminds me of eBay circa 2005 or so. I was really surprised not to receive an immediate prompt to pay for my item. I had to go and search it out but I ended up finding the payment page a full half hour before I received an email with payment instructions. We'll see how they do with fulfillment. Hopefully, that will go smoothly. |
Post# 445689 , Reply# 17   9/6/2021 at 15:34 (933 days old) by fantomfan57 (Central Texas)   |   | |
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Here is the picture of the Classic, Classic III and free Sentria II. The close up is of the Classic Omega bag which makes this a Classic FrankenKirby. This one is, a shake out bag set up, not my favorite way to go. |
Post# 445691 , Reply# 18   9/6/2021 at 15:59 (933 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina)   |   | |
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