VACUUMANIA

[golittlesport]

Very cool collection Suzie! I love your Easy Spindrier...what fun that must be! I also especially like your GE tank vac. I have a GE handvac that is the same color and probably from the same era. I also have that same Westinghouse hand vac pictured with the GE tank. What wonderful treasures you have...and it's great your hubby and friend enjoy them with you.

 

[Suziehomemaker]

Thank you golittlesport appreciate your comments.

 

[Suziehomemaker]

Great people on here

thanks everyone

 

[Almostclean]

wonderful collection

wow..... you have alot of stuff i see... where do you put it all? the majority of my collections i have to store away.... i love the colors of all the retro items...

what other things do you collect? pictures? books?????

 

[mrcleanjeans]

yeah,what else do you collect.Many here, I believe wanna know.

 

[mrcleanjeans]

a sucker for suckers

so what's you favorite vacuum, and why

 

[partscounterman]

I love my Compact

I love my Compact because it is almost indestructable. Also you can pop open the lid and see what you picked up.

I know plastic vacuums are here to stay, since ladies do most of the cleaning and prefer the lighter weight (but then pay good money to join a fitness club-LOL). I will always prefer an all metal vac (also have a Kirby for the deep carpet cleaning.) But thats just me....

 

[tolivac]

I prefer the METAL machines as well-new Compacts-TriStar-Mg series machines are made of Magnesium for a lightness of a plastic machine-but the durability of the metal one.Excellent machines.I too love Kirbys and older metal Hoovers.

 

[petek]

Love those vacs

I have that feeling I'm going to start collecting them now. As well I feel much better noting from your pics that my house isn't the only one where you'll find "treasures" stuffed under coffee tables etc.

 

[tolivac]

Royal Classic

Over the weekend I got a Royal Classic series wide nozzle vac-its nozzle is 18" wide. The vac shop guy and I both fixed it up.Its a little beat up-a customer left it a his shop for repair-Bill repaired it but the owner never picked it up.Been in the shop since last november-"well its been here for more than 30 days" its now sold to you.Got it for the price of the orig repairs. Was a bargain for $80.Played around with it at home-works beautifully!! Motor just purrs.And its "Rite-Height" adjust is perfect-had to repair that.Fixed it at his shop.also repalced the floor shoe on the nozzle.The previous owner didn't use the floor shoe!!Will work much better with it.-and easier on your carpet.Will have to clean it up and take a buffer wheel to the housing.Its the last of the replaceable motor brush type machines.And has the lubeable rear motor bearing.

 

[westytoploader]

Has to be my 3 vintage metal-tank Shop-Vacs; 1976, 1980, and 1989. Fun to use and extremely powerful too! Not sure what I could do without them as far as cleaning washers, dryers, and vacuums is concerned. My 1989 600C (far right) came in really handy today when the underside of the '68 was covered in dust and cobwebs!

 

[david]

Dear Suziehomemaker

This vac under the end table-the turquoise one-is that a Leywt? I don't know if I speeled the name right, but I remember my late stepdad having one of these. I enjoyed vacuuming with it. But they seem so rare.

 

[tolivac]

Vintage Shop-Vacs-Another thing lacking in the current SV machines-the bland tank colors-those vintage ones were so COLORFUL!!!even attractive!I have a newer SS tank machine-bought at ReTool.It has the 22 gal SS tank-but very bland in appearence-under the Grainger "Dayton" name.Works well though.Use the large drywall bags in it and an add on "HEPA" filter.Saved the old foam one for any wet pickups.Has the all metal toolkit.Was packed in the tank.Retool didn't know about that.also I was one the lookout for Lewyt--esp the "Big-Wheel" models. The tank model that had "Filter Cones" got them in trouble with Health-Mor Filter Queen.Those Big Wheels were SO COOL!!!Just have the carpet tool for one.Its Turquoise in color.Would love to have the vac that it was used on!!

 

[Suziehomemaker]

Treasures

Hello David the vac under the end table label says Compact and then Electra maybe someone on here could explained more about these.
Westytoploader I like those shop vacs you have who knows I might start collecting those too LOL
Petek I have things all over my place in just about every room you will find some of my colletions(treasures).In my living room I also have mixers and and a donut makers (all in thier boxes)old electric hair curler ,blow dryer, a Twinplex stroper to sharpen double end blades .So it is just fine to put things anywhere you please These are all a work of art .

 

[mrcleanjeans]

cool compact

Suzie,the Compact Electra you show was from the early 1960s,you'll even see sputnik on it and the words "As New As Tommorow",along with ball castors,saying "we're on the ball",a great vacuum.Did that fun-luvin'friend of yours get it for you.How did you get all those suckers and how many do you have grand total?

 

[petek]

Got my Constelliation!!!!

I mentioned it in another thread....$30 for a pink constellation in fair to good shape,,plus he threw in a Royal Hand Vac and some Hoover J bags. Need the metal wands though.
Soon as I find my camera I'll place it under the coffee table and take a pic..lol

 

[gansky1]

That Compact is a good vacuum, very good suction and an excellent floor tool. Terry L (tlee) told me about the floor tool when I found one at a thrift store and he was right - excellent design and easy to use. Some neighbors of ours had one (sort of a tan color?) and always called it "the pig."

Has anyone tried one of these? The Royal, all metal Powercast model - they look very interesting...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=20617&item=4372248861&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

 

[westytoploader]

The Powercast looks like a rebadged & slightly modified Dirt Devil upright to me; the "Clean-Air System" is a dead giveaway. Based on CR tests, Dirt Devil uprights were always subpar (and flimsy too). I'd stick with the original metal design.

 

[tolivac]

I have both the Royal Powercast and the Royal Classics and Everlast traditional design uprights. They outperform the Powercast-much lighter,less expensive,and--more efficient.Sometimes while running the Powercast-it will trip a 15A breaker with nothing else on it.I hear rumors that the Powercast was going to be discontinued. The first and only all metal clean-air upright?And-you can more easily service the Royal Classics-Everlasts yourself.You have to have a dealer or servicecenter replace the Powercast belt or roller brush.The Royal Powercasts are striking and nice looking vacs though.There is more than one supplier of the "U" type bags.The U bag is rather small for the machine and fills quickly.

 

[tolivac]

Metal Clean-air uprights

I feel the Hoover metal DAM uprights are better than the Powercast-much lighter and more efficient.