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Thread Number: 44225
/ Tag: 50s/60s/70s Vacuum Cleaners
Rare? Eureka 1470B (ESP) |
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| Post# 460441 2/19/2023 at 10:07 by convertible18 (utica, ny) | ||
Here I present one of my favorite vacuum cleaners in my collection... My Eureka 1470B, found at an estate sale. As I am more of a Hoover guy and don't really go for F & G units, I had to get this one as soon as I saw it. It was marked very low, $2.00 with bags! It was kept in great shape and was well worth the price. All it needs is a new lightbulb as of right now. When I got it, it ran perfectly! All there was to fix was the previous owner really made use of the bags and filled it up way over the fill line. I was betting it was the original paper bag in it. All I did was unclogged it and cleaned it up. Needed no service. My friend Chris Szwejk gave me a new handle for it because it had one of the deluxe Eureka handles on it. Who knows why that was on it? If you also look at the pictures, the cord and the bag are still intact and in great condition. I was also wondering if these were rare. I only saw one of these on YouTube (I posted a video of mine) and nothing of them on vacuumland.
You can also see my cat is in the pictures, she enjoys vacuum cleaners too! | ||
| Post# 460443 , Reply# 1 2/19/2023 at 13:10 by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
That was quite a steal for only $2! Those old Eureka uprights are mighty tough machines, seeing as they are almost identical to the commercial Sanitaire uprights. I don't know how rare they are, probably about as rare as a Hoover Convertible of the same vintage. They were both pretty popular mass market retail machines.
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| Post# 460447 , Reply# 2 2/19/2023 at 14:44 by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
That upright is from 1984…I found a newspaper ad (see link) below in which it was on sale for $75 in honour of Eureka’s 75th anniversary. The 1470 is not an ESP upright with the higher power motor.
The only thing kind of special about it is the unusual bright cherry red colour….not many Eureka Dial-a-Nap uprights had that colour over the years. CLICK HERE TO GO TO eurekaprince's LINK | ||
| Post# 460453 , Reply# 3 2/19/2023 at 20:00 by Lesinutah (Utah) | ||
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| Post# 460460 , Reply# 4 2/20/2023 at 08:56 by convertible18 (utica, ny) | ||
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| Post# 460461 , Reply# 5 2/20/2023 at 09:52 by bnsd60m9200 (Akron OH) | ||
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| Post# 460462 , Reply# 6 2/20/2023 at 10:24 by convertible18 (utica, ny) | ||
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| Post# 460464 , Reply# 7 2/20/2023 at 10:32 by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada) | ||
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Post# 460474 , Reply# 9 2/20/2023 at 13:35 by kloveland  (Tulsa) |
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| Post# 460482 , Reply# 10 2/20/2023 at 16:45 by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana) | ||
lol I found that same throw rug at Goodwill, that's funny.
These old Eurekas from the 1980's and early 90's operate on the premise of KISS and they do that very nicely. For whatever reason or another many collectors do not pursue these Eurekas, and Eureka made little amounts of each model number subset, so many do not have it. That is why you are not finding anyone else with one. You have 1470-B, so this was a second revision to the 1470 model, what was changed, do not know. I believe the dealer/service brochures tell what each change signified somewhere in their diagrams. | ||
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