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Sebo_Fan, I'm taking care of a sick fiancee and a newborn, but when I get back home in a month or so I'll post up photos I took of converting a suction only canister to use an electric hose. It couldn't be simpler. And just to outrage you some more I'll show you the fifteen minute, $5...

No different than all and sundry using variations of the Harley Davidson bar and shield logo with their product or company name on it, until Harley started dropping trademark infringement lawsuits like a summer rain on the miscreants.

Wow. Very nice find. The vac shop owner sounds a touch flakey changing his mind on the price but nonetheless you grabbed a great vacuum at a great price. You can see the shared heritage with your canister in the shape of the bag chamber lid and the lip you grab to open it. Is the red bag...

Somewhere on the Ametek-Lamb website is an informed critique of operating vacuum motors in series. In their opinion this has many drawbacks not the least of which are serious overheating of the second motor in series. Dig around their website, I don't wish to misquote them but their analysis...

Alex, just to learn, how does Hoover effect two speed operation? We know our Kenwhoppers and Filter Queens have these diabolical five wire Lamb motors and a DPDT switch that switches the motor between series and parallel operation. New vacs use a pc board to alter voltage and control speed...

They stuck you in one of those Porta-Camp things? Ugh, horrible.

Sebo_Fan, you don't need any kind of a degree to suss out a simple hose power connection on a canister vacuum. You make it sound so hard when it isn't. Kids with nothing more than a high school diploma wrench on truly complex aircraft for the Navy I love. A vacuum cleaner is child's play. A...

Their high pressure in-home sales practices have made a lot of people unhappy with them. The prices people have actually paid for them are all over the place. Lots of buyers regret.

Even on travel the antenna are always twitching. Did you vacuum your hotel room with it at least once, just for fun?

bnsd60m9200, I have an Electrolux Epic 8000 and the new Kenmore Elite is maybe half as loud. The floor brush is as quiet as that small Wessel-Werk brush I have, much quieter than the Powermate with my new Progressive (open box stock, too cheap to pass up and I need to have one in the...

There is never any shortage of good used Powermates on ebay. They are about the simplest brush out there to disassemble and sanitize. Replacement brush rolls and belts are everywhere. That brush is sold under a half dozen different names and is the industry standard. There is also a seller...

It says Made in Japan on it.

If you have pet hair nothing will clean it as well as a powered floor brush. For short nap area rugs with no pet hair you can do an ok job with a straight suction floor brush, and for hard flooring all you need is straight suction. For deep pile carpets and/or pets, you need some sort of...

Actually the guns on the Abrams are manufactured in the US but to a German 120 mm design. We use a different caliber gun than used in German tanks (in artillery speak, the "caliber" is a measure of barrel length, a 52 caliber gun for example has a barrel length that is 52 time the barrel...

Hey Kenkart, go try the new TOL Intuition canister. You'll be surprised. I think you'll like it. I do. You don't know a quiet vacuum until you have tried it. Big suction too. Just the wands are funky.

Rugsucker, since your phone is bad use my e-mail on my profile. I don't want to miss out on any Kemore gold when your warehouse mining equipment hits the Kenmore seam. Thanks. We just added a new family member so I won't be looking here as often. Life is now officially busy, but I do check...

The bummer is I still really want to see a Riccar or Simplicity canister in the flesh, but now it looks like a two or more hour drive to maybe see one. Ah well, maybe on the next journey to Smell-Lay.

I'm not in the business, just a customer /collector. I figured there was an angle somewhere. I also figured someone where would know it. Thanks. I will also never waste my time in either shop again. Double thanks.

The Kenmore High Desert Restoration Center is not proud of how staff had to kludge reinforcements on it's current small Kenmore of that vintage to addd some degree of strength to it's repair the vacuums broken handle. The Center became quite fond of that model vacuum and would be loathe to ruin...

I guess I don't see the filter material will stay in place without the frame to retain it. Sure suction will keep it in place when the motor is on, but what keeps it put when the motor is off. I park my canisters on end. It think that is how most are stored in the closets of the world. As...