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Not everyone in possession of a vacuum is an enthusiast, and nozzle and head is used interchangably here. Power nozzle, power head, etc.. I like powered floor brush for clarity, to distinguish it from a suction only floor brush, but few here use that term. And sometimes regional idiom raises...

The E49 Charger. This is muscle Australian style. Dodge was working on a new seven main bearing six to replace the old Slant Six. But by the late 1960s it was easier to sell a V-8 than a six, and the small block V8s Chrysler were building were about the same power as this six, so the...

Ford continued to build those old Fairlane bodies overseas in South America and Australia for many years after they were discontinued in the US. Ford of Australia was using the Fairlane name on a TOL stretched Falcon body until fairly recently. I remember seeing them when I briefly lived in...

Woooo, that record player looks like something you would find in Haight Ashbury, not deepintheheara Alabamy. I guess you have to play some Lynyrd Skynyrd on it to get the full effect. DeoxIT is very interesting. I have a 1962-ish vintage Fisher tube tuner with lousy connections and gummy...

Did you notice the seller is a refuse hauler/landfill operator? They probably picked it out of the trash. Might be, um, fragrant. Crazy price if, as they state, their true mission is to reduce landfill waste and recycle items that might have further use. I sincerely hope they get realistic...

Amazingly Hoover did indeed put the Kenmore name on a few of their vacs. I was looking through Sears Parts Direct and encountered a very strange model number in a listing of every canister vacuum Sears ever sold. So I loaded it's page and at first didn't have a clue what I was looking at. I...

I bought two of those switches from this old country hardware store out in glorious Inyokern California. It's one of those amazing emporiums you never find in a big city. The terminals have threaded posts with screws to attach spade fasteners to. You can see that is what I did. All those...

Well that wasn't much fun. Zip tied wires together to neaten up the spaghetti in the motor compartment, trying to make room for everything, but ultimately the switch I am using is just too big for the space available. Moving wires didn't solve the problem. Zip tying them into a neat bundle...

Yeah, if you give negative feedback it more or less forces you into dispute resolution, but both times I went that route I received partial refunds, and neither of my accounts with ebay or PayPal was not frozen during this process. I just left another shipper neutral feedback for one of three...

I didn't realize there were machines that were not serviceable. Would anyone else like to comment on this? Still, if someone has the exact model number of one of these I would like to try and see if it is in Sears Parts Direct. At the very least they will have to show the hose, floor brush...

I am trying to look up the Kenmore Extra Suction Canister Vacuum 24196 in Sears Parts Direct. If someone has one of these could they tell me the exact model number off the data plate on the underside of the vacuum so I can look it up. Sears Parts Direct keeps kicking back "24196" when I enter...

Ah, I see. Sorry.

Here are some three wire vacuum motors being sold: https://www.google.com/shopping/product/8381805255760860150?q=three+wire+vacuum+motor&hl=en&gbv=2&prmd=ivns&sa=X&ei=n7gIVLinCIPgiwK414CgDQ&ved=0CDYQ8wIwBg http://www.amazon.com/Filter-Queen-Speed-Wire-Motor/dp/B008MAWCVK

Found this users manual: http://www.manualslib.com/manual/685237/Electrolux-Dolphin.html

I thought Numatic vacs used Lamb motors?

I think the problem is the yellow wire coming off the switch. That one terminal has two wires attached to it, the yellow wire and the jumper that runs diagonally across the back of the switch. Tonight I may try flipping the switch the other direction and see if I can find the clearance I need...

So I put the motor back into the Avocado Bomber last week. You might recall the high/low speed switch was lost, so I had to make an equivalent switch from a DPDT ON/ON switch. I did that tonight, installed it in the vac and wired it together. I was so stoked, thinking I would finally screw...

No Hoover canister vacuums? No Futuras or Dimension 1000s? Just asking.

I'll never know if that baby Kenmore canister I had shipped from Florida was broken in transit or if the seller sold me a broken vacuum. Nothing in the images of it suggests the handle was broken but who knows. The vac was poorly packaged so anything could have happened en-route. ebay sellers...

Eh, there was an interesting Fakir suction only canister vac auction I was following, due to close today, that no one had placed a bid on. Minimum bid was $9.00. Probably a good thing ebay went down and prevented me from pulling the trigger on that fakir. :-) (couldn't resist being...