Mystery Jar Tool?????

[Mike~MIller]

What is this? any ideas..

 

[Mike~MIller]

 

[WWheeler]

Rainbow Vacuum Cleaner Canister SE Part Accessory Sprayer Mister
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rainbow-Vac...y-Sprayer-Mister-Glass-Jar-L-751/351973246445

Using the Sprayer Tool
http://rainbowsystem.com/support/cleaning-tips/using-the-sprayer-tool

 

[Streetbu]

Ding ding ding we have a winner Johnny!

 

[rburke65]

Well......that didn't take long!

 

[MFolks]

I remember seeing something similar in the Hoover Vacuum cleaner accessories my Mom bought,back in the 50's.

 

[joe_padavano]

Seriously? Is dragging your vacuum cleaner around to spray Windex REALLY easier than using the hand pump? Have we become THAT lazy?

 

[WWheeler]

Seriously? Is dragging your vacuum cleaner around to spray Windex REALLY easier than using the hand pump? Have we become THAT lazy?

Rainbow is/was a fancy-schmancy shop-vac vacuum that operated on water-bong technology (bubbled everything through the water which served as the filter) that was sold by door to door salespeople. If you made the mistake of letting one into your house for a free demonstration they had so many gadgets/contraptions they could wind up staying for hours before they were done showing you everything it could do. You were never ever going to get them to leave until you bought one. The things cost a fortune but they financed with no credit check and they'd take your vacuum as a down payment.

I only know all this because I came home one day - almost ~30 years ago - to find the wife had fell for it, and I wound up paying for it for a couple years. It actually was a good vacuum, but wasn't worth 1/8th of what i paid for it. I don't recall that we ever did use any of the extra gizmos it came with.

 

[MikeF2316]

Seriously? Is dragging your vacuum cleaner around to spray Windex REALLY easier than using the hand pump? Have we become THAT lazy?

Actually it's a trick. The users think they're being lazy, but they're actually getting more exercise doing it the "easy" way!

 

[Mike~MIller]

thank you for the great info!

 

[ynned]

Rainbow is/was a fancy-schmancy shop-vac vacuum that operated on water-bong technology (bubbled everything through the water which served as the filter) that was sold by door to door salespeople. If you made the mistake of letting one into your house for a free demonstration they had so many gadgets/contraptions they could wind up staying for hours before they were done showing you everything it could do. You were never ever going to get them to leave until you bought one. The things cost a fortune but they financed with no credit check and they'd take your vacuum as a down payment.

I only know all this because I came home one day - almost ~30 years ago - to find the wife had fell for it, and I wound up paying for it for a couple years. It actually was a good vacuum, but wasn't worth 1/8th of what i paid for it. I don't recall that we ever did use any of the extra gizmos it came with.

I made the mistake when I was just out of school of answering a help wanted ad that turned out to be selling those things. Wasted a day sitting in a room learning the spiel. Had to memorize it word for word, including the spontaneous witticisms. I never tried to sell any, and I can't remember if I got any pay for the class.
Apparently you can still buy them.

 

[WWheeler]

Hurts to see you can buy a new one for ~1/4 of what I got duped into paying for one in the mid 80s, especially when that ~$2100 factored for inflation is supposedly almost 5K now.

 

[abachman]

We had one similar for an Electrolux vacuum. My mom painted several pieces of furniture using it.

 

[four.cycle]

I made the mistake when I was just out of school of answering a help wanted ad that turned out to be selling those things. Wasted a day sitting in a room learning the spiel.

^

Years ago I answered a want ad (remember those?) for an "outside sales position", but they wouldn't specify what the product was. They just gave me a time and location for an "interview". There were at least 30 of us sitting in a room together waiting for our "interview".
Somebody got up at the front of the room and started talking, and as soon as the words "Rainbow vacuum" came out of his mouth, over two thirds of those in the room immediately got up and walked out.

 

[Corndoggeh]

Rainbow is/was a fancy-schmancy shop-vac vacuum that operated on water-bong technology (bubbled everything through the water which served as the filter) that was sold by door to door salespeople. If you made the mistake of letting one into your house for a free demonstration they had so many gadgets/contraptions they could wind up staying for hours before they were done showing you everything it could do. You were never ever going to get them to leave until you bought one. The things cost a fortune but they financed with no credit check and they'd take your vacuum as a down payment.

I only know all this because I came home one day - almost ~30 years ago - to find the wife had fell for it, and I wound up paying for it for a couple years. It actually was a good vacuum, but wasn't worth 1/8th of what i paid for it. I don't recall that we ever did use any of the extra gizmos it came with.

I believe its the same exact thing with the Filter Queen, thing is I picked up mine for $10 at an estate sale haha!

 

[KRB52]

I used to have one, I believe I got it from my Mom's aunt's estate. I thought it worked find, my wife was less that impressed. Rough thing was when I went to use it and discovered she didn't bother to empty the water out of it after using it... last week. Just a bit stinky (had food bits and such in it, too.)

 

[WWheeler]

Yeah you definitely had to empty the water every time. That was their big selling point though. The salesman would first use your vacuum to go over and over a section of carpet dozens of times, then they would go over that same section of carpet two or three times with the rainbow and the fresh water you just watched him put in it would be black as coffee and filled with hair and whatever else. As they poured it in your toilet you'd be thinking OMG my vacuum leaves all that disgusting **** in my carpet.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

OK, story time: I tried selling this vacuum back in 2011 at the height of the recession. I went on about 20 calls but the only one I sold was to my parents. The vacuum is a great product. It just isn't worth $2000+. The system is set up as a MLM, or multi level market system also known as a pyramid scheme. At the end of the month all I had to show for it was $300 and 4,000 miles on my truck going to and from calls that didn't amount to anything. Most people scheduled an appointment for a demonstration, however between the time of the call and me arriving they used Google to realize how expensive the vacuum was. So I had driven 40 or 50 miles one way only to immediately drive 40 or 50 miles back. Looking back at the first week of training I now realize that there was a lot of double speak. If you don't have stairs in your house I would get one used from somewhere. I would avoid it if you have stairs as fully loaded with water in the basin it weighs close to 50 pounds.

Thanx!
Charlie