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Post# 47678   8/1/2008 at 09:34 (5,740 days old) by charles~richard ()        

Hello boyz and gurlz,

I have uploaded a two-part General Electric Roll-Easy video to my YouTube site. Here are the links to the two parts.

Part 1:


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Post# 47679 , Reply# 1   8/1/2008 at 09:35 (5,740 days old) by charles~richard ()        

Part 2:

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Post# 47725 , Reply# 2   8/1/2008 at 20:22 (5,739 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        
Popluxetacular, Charles!

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Big fan of the Roll-easy in all its incarnations, as you know so it's great to see one in action.

I really must get around to re-plating the tarnished discolored copper on mine's strap handle bezel and the wands - it's worn off down to the aluminum in a few blotches.

Now about that hose - I remember you mentioned your's was a substitute but the the color is so good - what other machine had a turquoise coiled vinyl hose? The one I used off the Pet Groomer clippers is unapologetically crushproof plastic but at least it is turquoise, if a bit too vivid. :-)

Dave


Post# 47765 , Reply# 3   8/2/2008 at 05:59 (5,739 days old) by arh1953 ( River Park, in Port St. Lucie, Florida)        

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I can't wait until someone unearths the yellow model, or a salmon pink model. I would certainly think since they made so many variations on the Cord-Reel models they would have at least two others on the Roll-Easy. Love those videos!

Post# 47766 , Reply# 4   8/2/2008 at 06:11 (5,739 days old) by arh1953 ( River Park, in Port St. Lucie, Florida)        
Not the Roll-Easy but.........

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By the way, I saw June Cleaver vacuuming the woodwork over the pocket doors to the study with a square GE tool. I think I saw Beaver vacuuming his room with the same square dust tool. Then there's the glamour shot of Wally vacuuming Ward's '61 Plymouth hardtop with the whole machine in the picture.

Post# 47770 , Reply# 5   8/2/2008 at 10:23 (5,739 days old) by luxg ()        

Charles, thanks so much for the fun videos. From the sound on your video it would seem that the Roll Easy had fantastic suction.

Post# 47781 , Reply# 6   8/2/2008 at 14:07 (5,738 days old) by charles~richard ()        

I'd say the Roll-Easy an under-rated machine. It, and the other G.E. canisters of that period, never fared particularly well in Consumer Reports testing; and it seems that not very many collectors are interested in them other than for the "WOW" factor - especially in terms of the Roll Easy.

But when I pulled mine out the other day to shoot the video of it, I was absolutely amazed at how much dog fluff it pulled up out of the living room rug. We have two Pekenese -- as anyone with long-haired dogs knows, this time of year means "doggie tumbleweeds" all over the place. Well, the rug nozzle of the Roll-Easy dispatched all the surface hair on the rugs in no time. Granted, it did not do the same kind of job that a revolving-brush upright would do, but it got up more hair than I expected.

The suction power is, I'd say, pretty much average for machines of that era. I've never tested the Roll-Easy but I'd say, offhand, that it has about as much power as an Electrolux LX. It is a much quieter machine than it seems in the video -- it has a very pleasant muffled sort of sound.



Post# 47782 , Reply# 7   8/2/2008 at 14:25 (5,738 days old) by arh1953 ( River Park, in Port St. Lucie, Florida)        
Hey Dave

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Did you ever test your Roll-Easies on the suction gage? I don't recall.

Post# 47785 , Reply# 8   8/2/2008 at 16:05 (5,738 days old) by portable (Corvallis, OR)        
Fabulous!

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Charles - I love the color and the sound. And I've always been fond of the square dusting tool. Thanks for the great videos.

Post# 47895 , Reply# 9   8/4/2008 at 20:25 (5,736 days old) by charles~richard ()        

Æoliandave, I don't know which vacuum cleaner the turquoise hose came from. I found it at a thrift shop in with a pile of other hoses and picked it up for a buck or something. No idea what it belonged to originally.

btw the Roll-Easy was featured in several TV shows, including Dennis the Menace and I Dream of Jeannie.



Post# 47916 , Reply# 10   8/4/2008 at 23:22 (5,736 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        

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Well, Charles-Richard, it's a fine looking hose. Had The Roll-Easy Triplets all out together tonight for a Vac-O-Meter survey, photo & video shoot. Turned that pale blue pool hose into a lovely 27 foot Rock&Roll&Reach-Easy hose, for the fun and practicality of it. :-) This is the one I found with Tom A in North Canton a few months ago. It came with the cord, thank goodness and the aluminum hose ends had a shortened white Hoover (probably) substitute. Really, too short to be useful. I went for the extreme. LOL

Felix, as usual, likes to snooze in hose coils. The later version Roll-Easy being quieter and hushed than the first, he'll stay there when its running.

R-1 on the left pulls 60", centre one 59" and the right one reads 57. with the hoses attached they all read 1-2" lower. This is due to the insignificant loss through the swivel hose ends.

I should have switched the two foreground floor nozzles for continuity - note the copper elbow on the right one, while the paler left one color matches the later tools.


Post# 47917 , Reply# 11   8/4/2008 at 23:27 (5,736 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        

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Preparing a little Hoover Luv Photo in the next few days.

Got the Dennis the Menace angle covered.

Felix still in a swoon - yes, the Hoover 621 is running!


Post# 47918 , Reply# 12   8/4/2008 at 23:40 (5,736 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)        

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Three colors of Roll-Easy cords - dark blue, turquoise and light gray. I also have a darker gray one.

Rank amateur video will be posted to YouTube Wednesday night.


Post# 47945 , Reply# 13   8/5/2008 at 05:36 (5,736 days old) by arh1953 ( River Park, in Port St. Lucie, Florida)        
I know you're getting sick of this but

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Dr. Bellows:


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