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Originally Posted by holmesuser01
If there is a Kirby distributor in your area, the impeller kit is only about $13. Its a very easy repair once you find all the screws... My parts guy is more than happy to coach me when I go to tear down a newer Kirby... They dont have a metal impeller anymore. My mother is really good at sucking up loose change in her Kirby Heritage vac. I've replaced the impeller on hers several times since I bought it on eBone about 5 years ago. Best of luck!
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Thanks! Funny thing, I actually found another Kirby G3 on the curb a few days later. It wasn't in as nice condition, but it did have an okay (but somewhat beat-up) impeller. I went to a local shop and bought a new impeller anyway (as you say, they're not very expensive), but at least now I've also got some extra spare parts. Now my Kirby-from-the-curb-y works great!
I didn't have too much trouble figuring out how to take it apart and replace the impeller, but it's definitely not as simple as it could be. Taking it apart involves a number of unnecesarily interlocking parts that conceal screws or other fasteners for the other parts. Also, the impeller bolt/belt pulley has a reverse thread, though that wasn't actually too suprising. My guess is that the Kirby people wanted to make disassembling the thing juuust tricky and unobvious enough that Joe Homeowner will give up trying to figure it out and take it to the local Kirby Authorized Service Center, but still make it fairly easy for the official Kirby repairman.
Back on the topic of TV sets though-- what Japanese company made Sears-brand TVs in the late 70's? Was it Sanyo? On that same trash day, I noticed a Japanese-looking Sears-brand solid-state color portable, but the styling/control layout didn't look familiar. I didn't pick it up, but I'm kinda curious who actually made the set. It had a click-stop UHF tuner with two "odometer"-style drums to indicate the selected UHF channel; wasn't Matsushita/Panasonic fond of those for a while?