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Thread Number: 4837
Mysterious Vacuum Accessory |
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| Post# 54047 10/27/2008 at 22:20 (5,658 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 54048 , Reply# 1 10/27/2008 at 22:22 (5,658 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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Can someone translate? | ||
| Post# 54049 , Reply# 2 10/27/2008 at 22:23 (5,658 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 54052 , Reply# 3 10/27/2008 at 23:15 (5,658 days old) by kirbyotronic () | ||
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My mom is German, she can try to tanslate it tomorrow! | ||
| Post# 54059 , Reply# 4 10/27/2008 at 23:37 (5,658 days old) by petek (Ontario) | ||
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There should be another part for it per the diagram. I don't think it's a hair dryer.. it's a "hot air shower" heissluftdusche. welcome in the household and business for many uses. | ||
| Post# 54085 , Reply# 6 10/28/2008 at 07:23 (5,657 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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Thank you muchly, Pete & Joe! | ||
| Post# 54086 , Reply# 7 10/28/2008 at 07:26 (5,657 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 54087 , Reply# 8 10/28/2008 at 07:28 (5,657 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 54089 , Reply# 9 10/28/2008 at 07:46 (5,657 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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This is the vacuum on Hamilton Kijiji posted a while back by funvacfan. I waited four days expecting Guy would tell us all about it. So I called the number, told it was still available, made an offer and drove over to get it on a rainy evening. I'm told it was found as-is in the basement when the seller bought the house 10 years ago. Since there was no cord, hose or wands he just left it there until now. The bakelite motor cap (which also serves as the rear motor mount) was severely cracked & split up both sides around the exhaust port to the switch mount and held together with adhesive tape strips - long dried out. But the machine was otherwise so complete and foreign to me I didn't hesitate to get to fixing. All it took was a week of strategically placed clamps, tape and liberal dabs of crack-filling crazy glue, one crack at a time. The cracked middle section was distorted out a full 1/8" from the force of the dislocated motor. 
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| Post# 54091 , Reply# 10 10/28/2008 at 08:01 (5,657 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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It's a West Germany made Progress model 58-F from the 19
...in an earlier case with a few earlier accesories. It runs on 120 VAC and pulls 65". The filthy white textured leatherette finally gave up it's crud with dental pick detailing. I had the blue cord in the cord bin and configured a bojack hose to fit snugly into the course threaded intake port, which doesn't match any threaded hose connector I have. The big problem was the smaller metric diameter for the tapered wands to fit the tools. Standard North American wands will not fit. I shaved down one plastic Kirby type wand. 
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| Post# 54092 , Reply# 11 10/28/2008 at 08:03 (5,657 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 54139 , Reply# 14 10/28/2008 at 23:02 (5,657 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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Thank you, Joe!!!
I'll follow up on that when I have time to myself after Nov 9. It would be terrific to get the real hose coupling and wands in that metric size. From what I can conjecture, the tools and case belong to an earlier 1952-ish green P-7E Progress Bodenstaubsauger. I surmise that the owner saved the sturdier case & tools to go with his new 1962-ish white 58-F that came in a similarly sized and trayed cheaper cardboard case. Here's the Progess thread I used to research and the repaired Bakelite motor cap. I don't use crazy glues with wild abandon but have found that it's the perfect fix on Bakelite under clamps - it wicks into the crack and seals solid. Have yet to have a bakelite/crazy glue joint fail. Also, very fine 0000+ steel wool and Mother's Aluminum polish restores the sheen & gleam to Bakelite. I will fill in the remaining crevices with hard wax furniture crack filler and polish out to make the surface as smooth as possible. Dave CLICK HERE TO GO TO aeoliandave's LINK 
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| Post# 54141 , Reply# 15 10/28/2008 at 23:33 (5,657 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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Drool Worthy
This vacuum appeared over a year ago on Ebay Germany. It was withdrawn from sale on the last day of bidding and I was fully prepared to pay the shipping to Canada. :-( While I can not make out the name on the label it certainly has Progress design written all over its sahpes. Gawd, what a beautiful Bauhaus machine. 
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| Post# 54142 , Reply# 16 10/28/2008 at 23:33 (5,657 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 54143 , Reply# 17 10/28/2008 at 23:35 (5,657 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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| Post# 54144 , Reply# 18 10/28/2008 at 23:38 (5,657 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada) | ||
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