HOLA! i have one of those kirby vacuum cleaners. Unfortunately i'm out of filter bags or vacuum cleaner bags. I don't want to buy online so can someone tell me where i can buy them. Like walmart or sumthin. They have to be kirby bags, nto just any old vacuum cleaner bag. THANKS
I have had a Kirby for twenty years and the only time I had a belt break was when something got wrapped around the brush and stopped it and when the bearings at the end of the brush seized. The bearings seized because of hair getting past the end caps and jamming them. I fixed it by removing the brush from the housing, pulling the end caps off and removing the hair. This took sometime as there's not much room between the roller and bearing. Once I had the bearing rotating again I used a needle to carefully prize the rubber seal from the bearing and get some grease into the bearing and replacing the seal. It's a fiddly time consuming job but I got it done. I presume yours has a little light on the head to tell you that the brush is turning. If so then that is due to a small magnet on one end of the brush roller passing a coil mounted in the housing. If the light doesn't work after you put it back together then you have the roller in the wrong way round. Don't listen to those others, I still think it's the best vacuum cleaner I've had.
I have to purchase my Kirby bags at the local VAC shop. They are the ONLY ones who sell them in my area. W/M DOES NOT sell Kirby brand bags.
My mother's vac is a kirby, and I'm pretty sure she buys the bags at the vacuum store where she bought it. I don't know that I've ever seen them on store shelves other than the dealers.
