snipez999
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Managed to find one of the "James" Numatic vacuum cleaners on Facebay in Greenock last night, after a couple of months searching. Most often they were overpriced, in dire condition, or just set the old radar off.
So, I arranged to go look at it this morning, hoping for the best, despite my too good to be true radar pinging just a little. It's a fifty mile round trip to boot.
Yes, I am paranoid, generally I don't have a lot of good luck, with stuff lol.
The vendor turned out to be an absolute gem of a chap though, he had everything for the unit, tools, owners manual etc..
The only reason for the sale, despite the item only being few months old, was, it was "too small for his needs", he wanted one of the commercial applications instead. Hooray! For a change I win a watch (ok, a hoover, lol)
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I was in such a good mood mainly down to getting a perfect bargain, the weather being bright, sunny and the scenery being beautiful, I got my lad, who came with me, to take a couple of pics as we ran along the A78 coast road.
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As you can see from the dirt on the screen the weather and roads are still filthy. Just a shame I never thought of taking the pics until we got stuck behind a group of approx 25 very selfish cyclists on our way back home between Skelmorlie and Largs. Never mind.
Looks like there'll be a few cars getting vacuumed out over the weekend at my house.
Best one I ever had was a Henry I was buying for the garage. Got it for 8 quid I believe as seller said it was b*ggered after he’d cut though power cable in error. Got it home and proceeded to check it over. Upon opening the plug I noticed that in his quest to replace the power lead with a new one, he’d simply reversed the L and N wires (or was colour blind). So a 30 second fix and a nearly new Henry for 8 quid including all the tools!