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I Also.... ....Have a soft spot for the Model L, which is so lightweight, reliable and long-lived. Alone among Electroluxes of its time, it gets the job done without a single unneeded bell or whistle. My late Model L (the gold one introduced at the time of the Golden J/Super J), actually has...

Mine Is.... ....The American 1205. It's an important model in Electrolux history, because it was the first to address something that had become a problem for Electrolux: dated styling. As excellent as the company's Models G and L were, their styling harked back to the 1950s, and other...

Are You Kidding? TWO machines? Spoken like a true upright user! For those of us who are canister people, it would be more like one machine, because by the time you gather up a canister, the wands, tools and power nozzle, you have your hands FULL. I can carry any of my canisters complete in...

My Advice to CR: Go to a public library, look up the 1970's issues of your publication, and COPY WHAT YOU SEE THERE. The magazine used to be well laid-out, thoughtful in its approach to testing, thorough and comprehensible. There also was much more attention given to testing a wide range of...

I've Never.... ....Had a "Check Bag" indicator come on at all. The reason is that I change bags on a time schedule. First of the month, all bags get changed. The bags never really "need" it in the sense of being as full as many people let them get, but I like maximum suction. It's also kind...

Kevin: I think there's rather a difference between holding a different opinion and telling others they really don't need to be talking about what they're talking about because it doesn't meet your personal standard for a great ship. Oh, and are you aware that the Queen Mary you hold up as an...

In My Opinion.... ....A suction control is a better use of resources and can contribute to vacuum life. Electronic controls use rare-earth materials, and add electrical complexity. Think of all the vintage Luxes that have a well-designed suction control, and which have survived forty, fifty...

Once Initial Objections.... ....Of the sales force were overcome, you not only COULD purchase a PN as an add-on, you received every encouragement to do so, in the form of telephone and/or postcard contacts. It was a great "add-on" sale, and it could be used to "save" a sale that was being...

Bill: I would NEVER disagree with that philosophy, LOL! Right now, I'm building a Grand Marquise around a canister that needs EVERYTHING, including total replacement of the top deck and cordwinder. Anyone else would send it to the dump.

Known Trouble Point! That contact between the vac wiring and the cordwinder has given trouble on two 1205s I've owned in the past. I think you should reach out to Nathan here )"electrolux-dude"), who has quite a bit of expertise. Hopefully he'll know of a fix.

This Is.... Very decent reconditioning work. I don't have a quibble with the quality of work done here for reconditioning purposes, especially at the price. However, what I see here is not collector quality, where the aim is to get the vacuum back into the same condition it was when it left...

Why Don't We.... Just ask that a moderator lock or delete this thread, since those of us who wanted to discuss an historic event presently on many peoples' minds seem to be infuriating and upsetting two posters who could have simply clicked over to threads more to their liking? Grrh!

Kevin: I am bowing out of this discussion.

Correction: One ship lost to an iceberg before Titanic sank met her fate off the coast of Alaska.

Kevin: Titanic's nearly identical sister ship, Olympic, sailed for twenty-four years without tragedy, even surviving a collision that breached two of her watertight compartments - BEFORE the retrofitting that was done after the loss of Titanic. Things happen that no one can foresee. Titanic...

Kevin: Titanic hit an obstacle, which breached her hull. Sank. Costa Concordia hit an obstacle, which breached her hull. Sank. No one is lessening any other tragedy, or dishing out any disrespect to any other occurrence, or belittling any other ship's accomplishments. This is merely the...

Titanic.... Actually exceeded British Board of Trade regulations concerning lifeboats. The regulations of the time (based on gross tonnage, not passenger capacity) only required her to carry 16 lifeboats, and she had 20. While this does not excuse White Star Line, it does point to regulations...

For Me.... ....Cameron's big achievement with "Titanic" was to make audiences understand what the ship represented in its time. The Edwardians prided themselves on their mastery of the physical universe; the RMS Titanic was a technological wonder for 1912. It had ship-to-shore radio...

Dave: The Cameron film does offer one thing that "A Night to Remember" doesn't, and it's there in generous measure, thanks to CGI special effects that didn't exist in 1958. Cameron made the RMS Titanic LIVE again. We not only see her interiors quite accurately depicted, we see her sail. We...

Justin: No WONDER everyone wanted to sail on the Titanic - she was probably the only ship afloat at that time with clean carpets! I'm sure they swept while at sea, either with brooms or carpet sweepers, but I still cannot imagine how yucky carpets would have gotten in a week.