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Thread Number: 43070
/ Tag: Recent Vacuum Cleaners from past 20 years
Oreck BB280D thrift store find - dumpster edition... |
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| Post# 450632 , Reply# 1 3/9/2022 at 10:57 (567 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
Cool Dumpster Find...
That's definitely a neat find and lucky that almost all the tools were with it. Definitely worth rescuing. The wand looks to be a generic plastic one. I've had the same ones with several machines of different brands—a Douglas ATV shop vac, a Royal Prince 501 handheld, and even an Electrolux Discovery Plus.
As to why the machine went to the dumpster, there's no telling. thrift store logic is baffling at best. It could be somebody on staff considers used vacuums to be 'unsanitary'. I've noticed one of the Goodwill stores near me has started removing the bags from bagged vacuums, presumably as a sanitary measure, but at the same time, they don't seem to empty the bagless machines. Go figure... The Goodwill stores around here send slow moving merchandise to their outlet center, where it's sold by the pound and sometimes by the pallet load. I've been to there once or twice where somebody apparently has bought a pallet, scavenged what they wanted, and left the rest on the sidewalk as free pickings for others. I've even found a few good things that way. | ||
Post# 450646 , Reply# 4 3/10/2022 at 09:32 (566 days old) by gottahaveahoove  (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640) |
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I have one of those | ||
| Post# 450680 , Reply# 7 3/11/2022 at 15:55 (565 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
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I just found one too...
So I was out running errands earlier this afternoon and popped into a Goodwill store on the other side of town. I passed up a Kirby G3 for $30 that I had seen several weeks ago and a Dirt Devil handheld with an unusual black and yellow bag for $25 but this little Oreck handheld for $8 just spoke to me. It certainly wasn't as good a deal as texaskirbyguy's dumpster find but for the cost of a hamburger, it was still worth picking up.
Made in 1994, according to the ratings sticker, it came with exactly what's in the pictures. While it would have been nice to at least get a dusting brush with it, I've got a bunch of tools that will fit it. It's got a nice little stretchy hose with no leaks or tears and I'm sure the white wand didn't come with it from the factory. The bag chamber was spotless, including the after-filter, and even though the bag was jammed completely full, it still had good suction. I'm getting ready to order some bags for it, which ironically will cost more than I paid for the whole vacuum. I'm looking forward to putting the machine through its paces once the bags arrive. I think it will come in quite handy for small jobs. | ||
| Post# 450684 , Reply# 8 3/11/2022 at 20:49 (565 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana) | ||
These Buster thingys were given to anyone that purchased a new Oreck as part of a package deal, since the Oreck had no way to connect tools or do any above-the-floor cleaning at all. They came in many different colors and versions, and also commercial grade models were made too. Most of the time most people had seldom to no use with them, and you can still find a lot of them that will run like they just came out of the box.
I'm not sure how strong the suction is since all mine are used and not been restored yet, but they look pretty good for doing the car and stuff. - I'm sure thats what most people used them for. | ||
| Post# 450688 , Reply# 9 3/11/2022 at 21:35 (565 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
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car vac... | ||
| Post# 450734 , Reply# 11 3/14/2022 at 00:29 (563 days old) by panasonicvac (Northern Utah) | ||
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| Post# 450745 , Reply# 13 3/14/2022 at 12:57 (562 days old) by Human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
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Reading the date forwards is actually backwards?!?
Okay, so the date code of '10194C' starts with the year? I had assumed it was read in month/day/year sequence, making it October 1, 1994. But you're saying it's in reverse order, making it April 19, 2010. I'm further assuming the letter 'C' at the end indicates the plant in which it was produced?
To be honest, I know next to nothing about Orecks. I briefly had an Oreck upright last summer but donated it to my church's rummage sale. I think this portable unit may be more of a keeper. Amazon delivered my bags for it yesterday and I gave it a little test run, just sucking up debris along the baseboard in my hallway, a task that most uprights have trouble with, it performed quite well and in some ways was easier to use for that task than a regular canister. My next test, maybe this afternoon, will be to stick an Electrolux combo tool onto the end of the hose and vacuum my car. | ||
| Post# 450747 , Reply# 14 3/14/2022 at 16:17 (562 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
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So I just finished vacuuming out my car with that little Oreck and have to say I was favorably impressed. For attachments, I used a generic Electrolux style combo dusting brush and upholstery tool that, appropriately enough, is black to match the machine. Along with that, I tried a (Swedish) Electrolux branded Eureka turbo brush. I was really surprised the machine had enough suction power to drive the turbo brush but it worked just fine, proving this to be an even more capable machine than I initially would have thought. One really nice thing was that the machine's compact form factor made it easy to place it on the seat, giving unimpeded access to the floorboards. I think I've found a new favorite tool for (dry) car vacuuming. That said, the wet/dry shop vac still has a job when water collects in the rear boot of my convertible, thanks to a leaky top.
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| Post# 450752 , Reply# 16 3/14/2022 at 21:26 (562 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
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The Oreck 9100c upright, which I bought last summer for for $2, also lacked a date code. I seem to recall from a thread I read at the time that date codes didn't show up until sometime in the mid-late 1990s.
I enjoyed playing with that machine but in the end, it quickly lost its appeal and I decided it needed another home. | ||
| Post# 450773 , Reply# 18 3/15/2022 at 12:54 (561 days old) by Human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
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That's Amazing!
Yes, we are a wasteful society but I'm glad to see that people (at least here in the South) increasingly tend to put things on the curb for others to grab before trashing them. A couple of weeks ago, my neighbor put a 2010-vintage Phillips TV (32 incher or thereabouts) out front with its remote and a note that said "TV Works". I now have it in my storage building but I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it. For now, it's just in reserve in case one of mine craps out but I may end up giving it to someone who needs it. I need to at least stick a set of rabbit ears or a spare ROKU box on it and test it out.
I have no clue why the thrift shop would not be interested in selling that tablet other than they didn't have the expertise or desire to do a factory reset on it. The Goodwill stores around here have a facility where they refurbish old computers and such. That tablet would have definitely been sent there before being put out for sale. Seniors are often perplexed by newer technology. I've observed this with my grandparents and more recently with my parents. It seems after about the age of 75 or 80 (individual mileage will vary, of course), a technological regression seems to occur and people lose the ability to absorb new technologies as they come out and sometimes even forget how to use technology that has come out within the past 20 years or so. My grandmother needed a new TV when she was in her late 80s or maybe 90 and my dad searched to find one that had the fewest possible buttons on the remote (power, volume up/down, channel up/down, mute and menu). Anything more than that was too confusing. When Dad was in his early 80s (he died just before he turned 84), my sister got him a smart phone, which he couldn't fathom and just left on the kitchen counter, plugged into the charger. My mom, who turned 86 a few weeks ago, laments the fact that she no longer knows how to do things on a PC that were once second nature to her. My sister, wisely, got her a Chromebook a couple of years ago, which she really can't mess up. | ||
| Post# 450783 , Reply# 20 3/15/2022 at 17:22 (561 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana) | ||
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| Post# 450812 , Reply# 23 3/16/2022 at 17:15 (560 days old) by panasonicvac (Northern Utah) | ||
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| Post# 450813 , Reply# 24 3/16/2022 at 17:38 (560 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
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