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Thread Number: 44202
/ Tag: 50s/60s/70s Vacuum Cleaners
Eureka question..model 238 (238b?) |
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| Post# 460252 , Reply# 1 2/12/2023 at 21:51 (459 days old) by Lesinutah (Utah) | ||
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| Post# 460253 , Reply# 2 2/12/2023 at 22:11 (459 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
This is more likely from 1968 or 1969. Made during the end of the period of Eureka uprights with a top side hose port and the beginning of the period when Eureka’s uprights had a foot-operated toggle switch. This is before the debut of the Rugulator height adjustment and before the debut of the Dial a Nap height adjustment.
I imagine the plastic cover for the handle release would match the dark grey colour of the base and bumper as they did all throughout the 1960’s. If the base was Lagoon Blue, so was the pedal cover. | ||
| Post# 460261 , Reply# 3 2/13/2023 at 08:19 (458 days old) by rugsucker (Elizabethton TN) | ||
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Eureka As a basic model with no extra features,but all the quality of other Eurekas,could it have come with no cover on foot pedal?Even moving the switch from handle to base would have saved manufacturing cost.Does it adjust for height by rotating rear axle? | ||
| Post# 460262 , Reply# 4 2/13/2023 at 08:35 (458 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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Another hint as to date: the two part handle. Not sure when they started this, but my childhood blue Automatic 260 from 1960 had a single long white metal square profile handle. I was too young to have seen my dad take it out of the box, but it had a two-speed handle switch which may mean it came pre-wired and pre-assembled in a very long box.
Two part handles allowed Eureka to pack their uprights in smaller compact square boxes, making them easier to warehouse and ship. | ||
| Post# 460292 , Reply# 8 2/13/2023 at 20:33 (458 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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The hole in the handle release pedal definitely suggests that a plastic or rubber cover is meant to be there. I would imagine finding a pedal cover to match this cleaner’s colouring may be very very difficult. Sorry to say….because it’s an unusual colour for Eureka. You may find a beige one out there, but it is probably like finding a needle in a haystack… ☹️
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| Post# 460293 , Reply# 9 2/13/2023 at 20:34 (458 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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| Post# 460295 , Reply# 11 2/14/2023 at 06:44 (457 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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You’re welcome K5vac!!!
Look for any Eureka upright in the 200 series from about 1960 to 1967 and you’ll probably see the pedal cover. The model names for these uprights were the Super Automatic and also later on: the Twin Power. So funny you mentioned the rubber bumper getting pushed down out of place!!! Because the pedal is so small, most users used to just press down with their whole foot on that corner of the base and the rubber bumper would get pushed out of proper position all the time! Even as a young toddler, I would sneak into the front closet to pull up the bumper near the pedal so that it looked correct! Funny footnote: in the User Manual, there was a picture of the handle release pedal being stepped on by the pointy toe of a ladies’ high heel shoe!!! I guess you had to wear pointy-toed formal shoes to press on the pedal without touching the bumper!!!! 🤣 | ||
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