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Looking at picture 2 the front bag control is from an early LX. The first LX didn't have a knob to control the ejection point. The top plate might have been damaged and they replaced it with one from an earlier machine from an LX since the LXI would be harder to find.

Another point: on the chrome top plate where the handle is (most likely under paint) it will have the electrical info as well as the model number. Where the extra bag was stored under the plastic tube on the underside, the Model LXI will have a large caster wheel in place of the plastic tube.

Just so you know the back end of that is an Electrolux XLI. If it still has the place for the axel in the back of the runners that's another indication that it is a XLI. The XLI or 61 was made for less than a year in 1955.

I've always loved the Olympia with the Super J handle. Congrats on it's later brother.

In photo 1 the bearing cap is on upside down.

Decided this morning to replace the bearings in the Olympia. Took the motor apart. The back bearing seems fine. Drilled out the rivets that hold the front bearing cap in place. The front bearing needed to be replaced. The old bearing was corroded in place. Got it out, cleaned up the opening, put...

Quoting from the owners manual At each end of the agitator is a clamping lever with a bent over lug. Raise and move the lugs toward the front of the cleaner as far as they will go. This will release the agitator so that it can be lifted out.

Got bored last night and made a new bag for my Hoover 105, instead of white I went with red sateen.

I found mine for $8 at Goodwill

I have power nozzles for both as well as hoses, but at the moment they're sharing the same power nozzle wand.

Meguiar's

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If the frame of the motor has a number 6500-11 that motor went to a model 60. Anyway you could just clip the wires (from the capacitor) at the connection points by the switch and undo the nut on the suspension ring take the wire from the capacitor off. Put the nut back on the suspension ring...

Just as a point of interest The Single handle serial numbers ran from N-00001-D to N-63036-F The Two handle serial numbers ran N-63037-F and above Both service manuals have a copyright date of 1980

The Olympia was offered from 1978 thru 1982 The early Olympia had a single handle like the Super J The later Olympia had the two part handle like the Silverado They both had the Olympic sticker