Recent content by centralvacs1928

Nice! I love these early Sanitaires. So much better built than the new ones (better sounding, too).

That's great news. Sounds like all is well with the electrical situation, then. You can run one of these units on a 15 amp circuit as long as it's not shared. A sound insulated thru-flow motor unit will be quieter than a unit with a bypass motor, and as long as the intake air is filtered, the...

The M465H is the old ModernDay Model J. Great unit, great long-lasting motor. I sold a good number of those and they are probably all still going! However, that unit won't have any internal sound damping so it isn't going to be very quiet. Manageable with the outside exhaust and an inline...

I figured you already had a couple of those around. Can you connect a 240 or 480 volt 3 phase AC load directly to that? Sorry, not a train expert. My HOA here would frown upon me having anything like that.

The motor will have three wires...black, white, and orange (could also be yellow or red, I don't remember). You will have a cable coming down from the handle with black and white wires. Then you will have a cable going to the headlight with black and white wires. All three white wires go...

If it runs normally for a short time and then begins arcing and slowing down, that indicates that one of the carbon brushes is sticking...one of the less serious and more easily remedied issues that a motor can have. Try taking it apart and replacing (or just removing, cleaning, and...

Tolivac Sure it can. A VFD can take a single phase input (if you de-rate, for example my 10hp VFD can only run a 7.5hp 3phase motor off of a single phase input). A 25hp motor draws about 175 amps at single phase 240 volts. And the turbine is only about 2ft wide x 5ft long.

Since that type of system is continuous duty, you wouldn't really have to ever turn it off. Why bother when you're just going to use it again tomorrow?   At $0.12/kWh, it would only cost you $3,600 per month in electricity. And in the winter, the turbine doubles as a cozy bedside heater and...

See if the dual motor car wash vacuum scratches your itch. Sound deadening foam inside the dome will help quite a bit.    If you're left unfulfilled, then yes, in theory, a 25HP car wash vacuum could be run off a big enough VFD from your home's 200 amp electrical panel. You'd need some big...

Typical "house current" is 240 volt single phase 200 amps. You can run a lot of vac with that :D Even if you acquired a three phase turbine type car wash vacuum, that could be operated off of a phase converter or a VFD. But if you are talking about regular electrical outlets, that means you...

The ones I have seen usually have two or three Lamb two stage motors (like the 116336 or the 119414) in parallel, giving them similar performance to an MD B/E2 or E3 (or the Filtex equivalent like TSP700L or TM285). They have plenty of room under the dome to play with different motor and control...

WOW Anything NIB is so neat to see. The older, the better. Don't see a hose or power nozzle or wands...perhaps (hopefully) they are all in the bottom of the box. Worth the price, I would say. Surprised it's been for sale for so long.

Found the source!

Loews Jersey Actually I have a pic saved (found online somewhere) of the machine at Loews Jersey! Shame about all the boxes and junk in front of it. Poor thing needs some TLC. If they don't recommission it and start using it again, let's hope they at least leave it be.

When I was a kid, my great uncle gave me a model 702-A. Light blue, same "turtle shaped" body style (very apt description, by the way!), blue braided hose. It had the "cord wrap" handle. Wasn't this model called the "Princess"? I remember noticing that the hose was totally airtight, and my...