Thread Number: 42470  /  Tag: 50s/60s/70s Vacuum Cleaners
Bison Handle
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Post# 446510   9/26/2021 at 09:29 (940 days old) by Hoover300 (Kentucky)        

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Selling a Bison Mark III, and I need some help figuring out how to get the handle off. It looks like there is a wire spring system that holds it on, but I don't want to break it. Any help appreciated, thanks!

Post# 446550 , Reply# 1   9/26/2021 at 22:29 (940 days old) by Lesinutah (Utah)        
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Person who started the thread for the mini meet in Idaho at the vacuum museum. If you get a hold of him he has a bison. He even bought it in the marketplace a couple months back.


Post# 446552 , Reply# 2   9/26/2021 at 22:51 (940 days old) by Hoover300 (Kentucky)        

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I'm selling to him, I asked him in an email how to do so, no response.

Post# 446553 , Reply# 3   9/26/2021 at 23:34 (940 days old) by Lesinutah (Utah)        
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The thread in super market asking if anyone had a bison. Was that you and him?

Post# 446554 , Reply# 4   9/26/2021 at 23:40 (940 days old) by Hoover300 (Kentucky)        

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An older one, yes. The newer thread, no. Mine is green.

Post# 446557 , Reply# 5   9/26/2021 at 23:54 (940 days old) by Lesinutah (Utah)        
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Handle might not come off.

Post# 446564 , Reply# 6   9/27/2021 at 05:29 (939 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana)        

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There was a guy selling these NIB here on Vacuumland some time ago. Found an entire unshipped pallet of them never touched.

His pictures show that the handle does come off. They shipped them fully dismantled into every possible piece from the factory.

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There is also a close up pic of one with the handle removed located here

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As to how it comes off - no data available from anyone posted here before or since. Maybe it's some kind of spring lock on the left side and you push that spring down and the handle slides upward out of the bracket? That's all I can think of.

Makes me suspicious someone that has a Bison and is buying another one doesn't know and won't tell how to remove the handle and help get it shipped out.


Post# 446570 , Reply# 7   9/27/2021 at 09:34 (939 days old) by Bisonian (Where the buffalo roamed! (Ocala, FL))        
Handle removal

See the round button on the front, just below the Bison emblem?

Push it down. It's spring-loaded. Then just lift the handle off.

Be careful putting it back on. If not latched properly, it will pop loose, potentially dropping the vacuum on your foot.


Post# 446571 , Reply# 8   9/27/2021 at 09:35 (939 days old) by Bisonian (Where the buffalo roamed! (Ocala, FL))        
Clarification

DOWN as in toward the machine.

Post# 446577 , Reply# 9   9/27/2021 at 13:48 (939 days old) by Lesinutah (Utah)        
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That's excellent instructions. Having a bison fall on your foot would hurt Luke heck.

Post# 446581 , Reply# 10   9/27/2021 at 15:13 (939 days old) by Hoover300 (Kentucky)        

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Thanks!! I'll try it out later.

Post# 446670 , Reply# 11   9/29/2021 at 20:11 (937 days old) by Hoover300 (Kentucky)        

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I got the handle off! Thanks for your help! Pushing on the button didn't work, I ended up oiling the spring handle thingy on the back and pulling up really hard, which lifted the button and removed the handle.


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