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jmurray01 - Re: cat food You may laugh, but I've actually burned up a belt on one of those department store special Dirt Devil uprights with a piece of cat food. This was dry cat food in pellet form where I spilled a bunch trying to feed the cat. A couple of pieces jammed between the...

I still use my Hoover U4053 all the time. Of course, I've taken it apart and thoroughly cleaned it/greased the bearings. It still does a fine job of cleaning floors (probably better than the Bissell bagless we have that uses 3x as much electricity), and the metal base, fan, and brushroll mean...

I'm no 'expert' but... Is the vacuum sitting down? On mine, the dial a nap dial only clicks if the base of the vacuum cleaner is touching the floor. The axle the two wheels are attached to is what causes the 'click,' there's a bent portion of it in the center that touches the dial-a-nap dial...

Color It's definitely red. So far the cleaning's been going fairly well, the big mark on the corner of the hood that looks like the paint has been scraped away and the metal is rusting was actually just some kind of gunk that came off with isopropanol and a lot of rubbing. The hood definitely...

Belt tension... While cleaning the brushroll on this machine, I noticed that the hexagonal 'ends' of the roll have a side marked 'new' and a side marked 'worn.' This looks like it's intended to be used to adjust belt tension slightly - I'm certain I'm not the first to notice this, but perhaps...

Yup, you're right. It was a darn funny looking 1, and there's a bit more space between 1 and 4 than between the other digits, but I think 1424 E is right. I'm cleaning the thing up now, I'll post pictures when it's back together. The insides seem to be in good shape, motor looks like the...

Thanks I'll consider that. I want to clean the bag up and make sure it's in decent shape first though. I'd imagine you don't really want to come home one afternoon to find a dirty vacuum cleaner bag in the mail anyhow ;-)

I don't know much about Eurekas, my thought was that my parents need a decent vacuum cleaner as they've gone through about 3 or 4 plastic walmart wonders in the past few years. Maybe after I've fixed this one up I'll decide to give them my Hoover U4053 instead (1 speed Convertible, orange hood...

Found this sitting in a pile of trash on the curb this afternoon. The sticker on the bottom claims it's a model J 424 e. The motor runs, the light works, but it's in desperate need of a good cleaning, and the outer vinyl bag zipper is missing several teeth toward the bottom, so that will need...

I'm sorry your cleaner was damaged in shipping. It's really frustrating when sellers do that, on the rare occasion I sell something on eBay I tend to go way overboard on packing because you never know when UPS will decide to run something over with a truck. I hate to say this, but I doubt you...

Brushroll being stopped easily sounds like a stretched/worn belt. Hoover 49258, probably better buying genuine hoover than offbrand ones, I got some bad offbrand ones that broke easily.

More detail... I probably should have been more descriptive. To me, the belt pulley looks like it's plated with some kind of bright metal. I don't see any plating worn off in the belt groove, so I'm guessing the pulley isn't worn very much.

The pulley looks OK to me. Anything in particular I'd be looking for? By the way, thanks everyone for all the helpful advice.

Nope, no scraping noise. No hair on the brushroll belt track or the motor pulley either, I cut all that off when I cleaned the machine. The brushroll is a factory Convertible one (2 brushes, 2 beater bars) that I cleaned and regreased the bearings on. It spins freely, and the fact that the...

So, here's a picture of the machine in question all cleaned up. I'm still having the belt breakage issue, I tried raising the height setting and that didn't help (not to mention the belt snapped while I was using the rear tool converter with a crevice tool, so brushroll friction shouldn't have...