|
Thread Number: 43765
/ Tag: 80s/90s Vacuum Cleaners
World's First(?) 13" Kirby Tradition |
[Down to Last] |  |
| Post# 456734 9/13/2022 at 15:12 (582 days old) by vacuumman (California) | ||
|
What do you do when you have a Kirby Tradition with a broken safety switch and a Kirby D80 nozzle with blue trim? You make a 13" Kirby Tradition of course!
View Full Size
| ||
Post# 456740 , Reply# 1 9/13/2022 at 19:36 (582 days old) by KirbyClassicIII  (Milwaukie, Oregon) |
||
vacuumman
You know, Kirby could have done this 13" nozzle thing as an option as far back as the Classic III 2CB in 1976. And then, when the Tradition 3CB replaced the Classic III during 1979, the 13" nozzle would also have had the metal pin to make it jibe with the infamous new speed switch mounted to the inside of the headlight cap.
When the 13" nozzle option was resurrected during the Heritage 1HD run, in 1982, what Kirby did to make the headlight cap fit over the contours of the 13" nozzle was to shave down the cap casting but just enough to match up with the contours of the top of the nozzle. (video: Thom S., aka KirbyCollector) ~Ben
View Full Size
This post was last edited 09/13/2022 at 23:19 | ||
| Post# 456771 , Reply# 3 9/15/2022 at 01:38 (581 days old) by kirbyklekter (Concord,Ca.) | ||
|
It does look factory I've been kicking around the idea of doing a nozzle swap myself. Is the main advantage of using the smaller nozzle better suction or just less clunkiness while vacuuming? Or both,haha! | ||
| Forum Index: | 
| Other Forums: |
|
|
|
|
|
Comes to the Rescue!
