Thread Number: 46107  /  Tag: 80s/90s Vacuum Cleaners
Oreck Badged Silver Knight 		[Down to Last]
Post# 475663   2/20/2025 at 16:34 by Blackheart (North Dakota)        

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Stumbled across this on Ebay, I've never seen this model before.

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Post# 475672 , Reply# 1   2/21/2025 at 12:37 by luxlife (Under a Pecan Tree)        
I've never seen it either.

 I can't say that I'm too surprised because we all know how Oreck loved to put their name on other brands of machines and I guess anything can be bought in the world of product licensing. This is the Oreck commercial canister that I'm more familiar with. Back in the early 1960's this was sold in the Whirlpool brand with the same wide power nozzle that was used for the domestic Whirlpool canisters at the time.

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Post# 475675 , Reply# 2   2/21/2025 at 14:02 by panasonicvac (Northern Utah)        
That's interesting

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Neither have I. I'm also familiar with the one luxlife shared but didn't realized they were actually Whirlpool machines, I know Oreck got their upright design from Whirlpool.

Post# 475683 , Reply# 3   2/21/2025 at 18:25 by luxlife (Under a Pecan Tree)        
Don’t quote me on this

It was 55 years ago and I have no idea who actually made it but I do remember the Whirlpool badge and the power nozzle. It seems logical considering how Whirlpool gave Dave Oreck his start.

Post# 475700 , Reply# 4   2/23/2025 at 16:30 by repairman (Woodridge, IL)        

The Oreck PT-57 & PT-357 canisters and Bigfoot (CAP175) power nozzle were made by Mastercraft. Whirlpool only made the power nozzle pictured below that was also used with the early variations of the machine. The Whirlpool head was also bundled with Rainbow D series units.

Photo courtesy of Tom Gasko. Owen Perkins shows the differences in the video below.

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Post# 475702 , Reply# 5   2/23/2025 at 18:19 by luxlife (Under a Pecan Tree)        
The Whirlpool power nozzle I’m referring to might be older.

 I’m thinking of the nozzle that Whirlpool paired with their household canisters in the early 60’s, only I played with it as attached to a commercial type canister with a cage on top to store the hose. I guess you could call it an L-shape nozzle. I remember seeing a pic of Tom G’s. It was black. Anyway, one of my Grandmother’s neighbors had one. They lived in one of those sprawling MCM ranch homes from the late 50’s full of wall to wall carpet, so I would imagine it saw a lot of use because of the longer hose.


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