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Thread Number: 43924
/ Tag: Recent Vacuum Cleaners from past 20 years
Unusual Kenmore canister? |
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| Post# 457891 , Reply# 1 11/10/2022 at 17:43 by panasonicvac (Northern Utah) | ||
Was it this one?
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Post# 457892 , Reply# 2 11/10/2022 at 19:04 by JustJunque  (Western MA) |
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That definitely looks like it. Is that a bright orange, sort of like a traffic cone? Not a metallic copper color? It had a slide control on the handle that appeared to be the power on/off, and to control the brush roll. | ||
| Post# 457897 , Reply# 3 11/11/2022 at 03:58 by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana) | ||
It is traffic cone orange. You cannot miss it.
I have seen those maybe 7 or 9 times in eBay searches while looking for vacuums to adopt into my collection. People always want prices of up to $100 for them so I never bothered. But I do see them often coming up for sale, so they must be fairly recent. | ||
| Post# 457912 , Reply# 5 11/12/2022 at 22:56 by fan-of-fans (USA) | ||
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| Post# 457923 , Reply# 6 11/14/2022 at 08:10 by suckolux (Yuba City, CA) | ||
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| Post# 457953 , Reply# 7 11/14/2022 at 18:36 by panasonicvac (Northern Utah) | ||
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Kenmore had an older model that's pretty much the same as the newer orange one but it's teal and white. They also had another older one that's orange as well but white everywhere else and it's pretty much the same as the newer green one.
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| Post# 457972 , Reply# 9 11/15/2022 at 10:22 by suckolux (Yuba City, CA) | ||
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| Post# 457993 , Reply# 11 11/16/2022 at 05:22 by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana) | ||
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It happens. Even before you leave the store. People grab stuff like the tazmanian devil anymore. Always put it in your cart and go around the store with it for awhile. Look over your cart before you check out and make the decision then, that way it's yours until you decide it isn't.
I usually always only go on 50% off day so even if I buy something I don't want, I didn't pay much for it to cry about and I can just re-sell it, so it's win-win. | ||
| Post# 458032 , Reply# 12 11/17/2022 at 22:34 by fan-of-fans (USA) | ||
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Yeah I’ve definitely had my share of Missoula and regrets not getting something.
And that model you saw was actually made by Panasonic, one of the last cleaners they made for Sears. The newer Cleve made models still seem pretty good. Cleve got Panasonics designs and tooling when they took over and from what I understand, hired on some of their engineers. So it’s similar to when Panasonic themselves took over from Whirlpool. | ||
| Post# 458039 , Reply# 13 11/18/2022 at 10:43 by dysonman1 (the county) | ||
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| Post# 458075 , Reply# 14 11/19/2022 at 17:57 by FanOfVacuums2 (Williamsburg, VA) | ||
I currently own both the Panasonic models like the ones in this thread and the 200/400 Series ones manufactured by Cleva, and I personally think the Cleva models are better.
The only thing that is better about the Panasonic models is the on-board attachments and slightly better floor tool. I do like having the attachments on the canister. The main thing about the Cleva models that is better is that they now put metal axles in the rear wheels of the power nozzles, which were known for wearing and popping off the nozzles of the Panasonic models. Also, they now seal the motor housings all the way to the exhaust filter, so they technically are sealed systems. On the Panasonic models, I like to joke that the air leading into the exhaust filter was merely a suggestion. Especially with the bag dock that leaks a little bit of fine dust, I appreciate that they seal the exhaust. The 200/400 Series models use the same main motor housing as the older Panasonic models, but they tape the front of the motor housing against the motor gasket to make that seal, glue the holes for the motor leads to seal them, put a seal on the keyed upper motor mount, and add seals where the filter housing clips onto the motor housing. Though the Panasonic models used the same basic design, they had none of those measures taken to seal them, so that is why they leaked so much. I do appreciate that Cleva is providing parts for their units such as the canisters and a lot of their uprights. They seem to outsource some models such as the Intuition, a lot of the bagless uprights excluding the CrossOver, and so forth, but they have their own factories and parts stock for the canisters and so forth. I rarely see the Cleva Kenmore models in for service for silly reasons, especially the uprights, but the canisters are not terrible. | ||
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