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    New member find!

    I have a Haley's Comet I restored and this would be a fantastic addition to my collection.
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    Trash Found Triple S Versamate (Sebo 350/1st Gen Windsor Versamatic)

    Lol, I was scratching my head wondering what a "brush roll chart" was. Now I know. Just me I like to stick with original when restoring a worthy vintage machine.
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    Recommended cordless stick vac to keep upstairs

    How does a flat paddle grab hair?
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    Power Nozzles for Central vac or Canister

    Is this what you are calling a Champion power nozzle? https://www.thinkvacuums.com/premium-champion-electric-powerhead.html They are made by Qindao Creation Industry & Commerce Co Ltd. They are sold with Cirrus and Johnny vac VC439 canisters made by the same company and are frequently called...
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    Power Nozzles for Central vac or Canister

    I did a search for a Champion power nozzle but all that comes up are Champion pressure washers. Is what you are calling a "Beam Imperial" the Beam Rugmaster or the Solaris?
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    Power Nozzles for Central vac or Canister

    Champion??? Who dat? The power nozzles Panasonic used to make for the Kenmore brand, their own brand and others like Cen-Tec, Nutone and Hayden are now made by Suzhou Cleva Electric Appliance Co Ltd.
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    Electrolux Group Image Bank - History

    Oscar Meyer had the Weinermobile. Electrolux could have had an Olympiamobile.
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    Recommended cordless stick vac to keep upstairs

    "Power Fins" remind me of old fashioned beater bars. What's old is new again : /
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    Favorite Modern Hardfloor Tool

    I was torn between the Aerus flip over brush or a generic horse hair parquet floor brush and chose the latter. I find them more versatile than anything else for hard floors. I can use it sort of on edge to sneak between a wall and a desk or between two pieces of furniture in ways that are...
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    Favorite Modern Hardfloor Tool

    Aerus will still sell you one with a new vacuum. Pretty sure new ones are still being made. I just bought a new one from Aerus for my Guardian Platinum.
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    Peculiar Tellus/ nilfisk machines

    Oreck sold two versions of the Philips "Swiveltop" canister series in the US. They were called the DutchTech. The first version had the short body depicted in your image, single speed in leaf green with an electric hose and a choice of Wessel Werk EBK280 ( or 290, I can never remember ) or...
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    Favorite Modern Hardfloor Tool

    They sell this stuff in big rolls for sound deadening old cars when owners install high end stereos in their classic cars.
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    Oreck xl

    Like everyone I learn the hard way. I had a geared belt Hayden Deluxe power nozzle that chewed through geared belts and that ain't supposed to happen. Turns out the motor was ever so slightly misaligned and the motor pulley was eating belts. A great example of what's called the Peter...
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    Favorite Modern Hardfloor Tool

    I bought what turned out to be a huge roll of 1/4 inch thick dense closed cell self adhesive foam with an aluminum backing for not very much money. This roll will probably outlive me it is so big.
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    Oreck xl

    I assume you didn't touch the motor but if the motor is somehow slightly misaligned it might chew up belts.
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    Oreck xl

    When everything is installed can you turn the brush roll easily or is maybe something binding a bit due to a misalignment somewhere?
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    Favorite Modern Hardfloor Tool

    You will laugh but a few of my older vacuums or power nozzles that I use regularly I have added sound deadening to.
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    Dyson Piston

    Some are, some aren't. I have seen a lot of Dysons with utterly conventional single stage tapered fan Panasonic suction motors with carbon brushes. The battery powered models probably are the ones using a brushless motor but not the corded Dysons.
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    Favorite Modern Hardfloor Tool

    In the fullness of time I am going to retrofit the Avalir Platinum parts that make it quiet to our Avalir 2. Kirbys have this high pitched whine that is as or maybe more annoying to me than the whine of a Diesoon or Shart. I want to see what I can do to make the Avalir run quieter.
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    New Kenmore Upright Vacuum

    What Clean Obsessed sells is similar but a different vacuum. The Mighty Mite is sold by Sanitaire and Bissell, with Sanitaire being less expensive than Bissell.
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