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I stopped by a local vac shop to explore around in its graveyard...
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Post# 474297   11/21/2024 at 23:35 by electrolux137 (Los Angeles)        

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I stopped by a local vac shop to explore around in its graveyard. There was some great stuff but I wasn't tempted...


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Post# 474299 , Reply# 1   11/22/2024 at 07:19 by Human (Pines of Carolina)        
All that plastic...

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...will still be around thousands of years from now.

I agree with your sentiment. Not much was interesting there, except maybe those Kirbys, especially that forlorn looking Legend II, but having too many Kirbys already, I would most likely have left them behind as well.


Post# 474302 , Reply# 2   11/22/2024 at 09:11 by dysonman1 (the county)        

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I made the decision a few years ago to take all the 'boneyard' machines in my vac shop to the dumpster. If new repair parts are not available, I'm not storing old vacs to take a used part off to fix someone's cleaner. I've sold a lot of new vacuums that way, plus I don't have to keep crap just in case I 'might' need it for a repair.

Look at all the supposedly 'high end' mieles in that pile Charles.


Post# 474303 , Reply# 3   11/22/2024 at 09:16 by JustJunque (Western MA)        

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Man, that s a lot of machines!
I see a few Orecks. Even an Oreck canister. Those would have tempted me, just because. Of course, as I sit here writing this, I have three fairly recent Oreck upright acquisitions at arm's reach. But, I doubt that I need to explain the sickness to anyone here. LOL.
In picture 11, I think I see an (at least slightly) older Eureka upright, maybe missing its outer bag.
And, I might spy a little Panasonic canister, similar to the one that I recently messed up while trying to clean it up.
Were these all available? I'm sure I would have taken some home with me.


Post# 474348 , Reply# 4   11/24/2024 at 18:22 by centralvacs1928 (Chicagoland)        

I wish I had that much space at my store.

Actually, I take that back. I'm glad I don't, because then it would look the same as this.

Now, to go back in time and see the boneyard in a vac shop from the fifties or sixties, THAT would be cool!



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