mole

.Hey Carmine.

Are people still BLOWING money away in Vegas.

Can you give us the up to date line, on whos going to go bankrupt first,G.M .CHRYSLER,OR FORD.......

Heres a tip for the gamblers in VEGAS stay away from the windows, is your house worth %25 or % 50, less than a year ago.......

MOLE

Hi Didier,

I would say that your application calls for a upright with the following features,double helix brush roll [no beater bars] Bypass twin motors one dedicated for the suction,one just for the brushroll, A geared toothed geared belt,with auto shutoff if something stalls the brush, The timing belt sends the same signal to the brush no under revving or over revving,top load easy change bags filtrete if desired, very easy to use and maintain by the user, a company thats in the vacuum business and dont sell vacuums as a sideline.

That being said,look at the following machines,SEBO felix,SEBOx4, Aerus/Electrolux prolux uprights,pro team xp15, sanitaire sc785 upright, LINDHAUS activa series,all the mentioned machines will give you 15 to 18 years of service,with maybe 2 tune ups during that period, all the machines will groom and clean your looped carpeting and keep them looking nice.

Hope this helps

MOLE

Hi Carmine, the bail failures on kirbys are minimal in contrast to the hoover convertible,how many bails did you replace because of breakage on the left hand side of the fork where the casting got thin and broke at the same spot?I use dto do do at least 10 a week in the old days,it seems like every uprights weak spots at the pivot point between the handle and the base of the machine.It seemed that the older kirbys without the transmissin wre more prone to breakage that the G series uprights.

I see a lot of handle grip breakage on these machines than bail fork failures.The harder people are on the vacuum the more stuff they can break, most repairs come under misuse and abuse,than just parts wearing out.

H.S. i dont agree with you about the kirby on bare floors,these machine really do quite well on bare floor surfaces, I agree about the attachment use though they really need on board attachments,but would have to redesign the whole system from front to back. Dont think thats ever going to happen...........

MOLE

Hi H.S.

The sentrias handle assembly is the same as the g3 thru g10, the sentria has the red or orange built in carry handle at the bottom of the fork.Its a KIRBY chacteristic that handle walks side to side,nothing to worry about, the handle locks into the transmisiion mount,the part that slides back and forth when under power the handle movement forward and backwards makes the tranny shift from forward to reverse,I must say its been pretty bullit proof, the transmission has a clutch pack in it, and is run by a geared toothed belt from the end of the motor shaft to the planetary gear on the transmission itself,[sort of like a LENCO transmission.] As a side note only use the transmisission in the drive mode when under power and using on your carpeting,when moving the machine to hard wood or tile leave the transmission in neutral.the transmission must be in neutral when not under power .Try and move the machine with transmission engadged when not running and you will hear the transmission make a clicking noise,this is not good.

The motor and transmission are warranteed for 3 years parts and labor.DONT confuse this with the lifetime rebuild warranty, As some people think it a lifetime warranty on everything parts and labor,and most kirby salespeople misrepresent this.

I hope this helps ,yeah im a little familar with kirby.........

MOLE

Hi Venson, Carmine,

Keeler also took a stake with BISON, in Ocala the company failed, use to sell these overpriced KIRBYS nothing but a headache for the the dealers and customer,

Keeler used his KIRBY connections and other friends to convert KIRBY distributors to Bison distributors,aparently Kirby did not take to kindly to this.

Now you can add BISON to the sought after collectors list of nostolga machines to round out their collections. The mark 2 was one of the biggest mistakes in Vacuum history.

Sort of like the EDSEL. But now both very collectable and sought after,I cant for the life of me figure out why BISON failed,you think maybe the price had something to do with it,or the way it was marketed, DOES THIS ROAD TO DISASTER REMIND YOU OF SOMETHING?????

MOLE