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3rd Sep 2018, 8:45 pm | #1 |
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Kirby Heritage II
Just acquired this from a chum ... I'vd given it a good fettling and other than the degraded alloy surface, it's not a bad looking beast (heavy and noisy though, so I suspect Mrs Nymrod will decline my suggestion of using it as our main vac).
A good assortment of spares/accessories to play with as well. I have a photocopy of the handbook, so if not available elsewhere & if anyone needs it scanning/emailing, just let me know via PM. Guy
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3rd Sep 2018, 8:58 pm | #2 |
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Re: Kirby Heritage II
You used to get the Kirby Reps banging on your door in the 70's and 80's they are well made and pretty effective but you could buy and throw away 5 good vacuums for the cost of the Kirby
I quite like them made like an old fashioned work for ever vacuum. XYL disagreed and we have had 3 Vacuums in the last 30 years but to be fair they were all much cheaper and worked as well and the three still cost less than the Kirby. However today we could still be using the Kirby Cheers Mike T
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4th Sep 2018, 9:58 am | #3 |
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4th Sep 2018, 10:37 am | #4 |
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Re: Kirby Heritage II
We've a fleet of three - at least I think we have - a Classic III, a Tradition and a Heritage, covering mid '70s to mid '80s models: none of them from new, though we did when younger and more impressionable (and in pre-internet days, when investigating such things wasn't nearly so easy) sink a hefty sum into a salesman's Filter Queen, the Kirby's cylinder rival.
A Filter Queen still has the regular cleaning job here, but I hope to make more use of one or two of the Kirbys once moved into larger premises with a reduced colony of items, so that there will be more expanses of open floor to manoeuvre the beasts around. User manuals appear to be available for download covering every Kirby model since before WWII - https://www.kirby.com/gb/kirby-owner...anual-archive/ My kind of company, then, as well as for the uncompromising build quality, effective cleaning and wonderful roar: a pity about the sales techniques. Paul |
4th Sep 2018, 10:40 am | #5 |
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Re: Kirby Heritage II
There is an earlier model still in use in the farmhouse here, copes with the hair off 6 dogs.
And its still serviced by a Kirby agent! |
4th Sep 2018, 11:17 am | #6 |
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Re: Kirby Heritage II
Always reminds me of John Bishop.
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4th Sep 2018, 12:27 pm | #7 |
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Re: Kirby Heritage II
Who, & why, Lawrence?
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4th Sep 2018, 12:36 pm | #8 |
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10th Sep 2018, 10:59 pm | #9 |
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Re: Kirby Heritage II
Well worth fixing up when working correctly will out clean most modern vacuum cleaners. I have one here that's well over 40 years old apart from brushes belts and bags it's cost nothing. That machine will quite happily gobble up one of today's battery powered efforts and spit the bits out the other end!
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