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Greetings all!  My wife is out of town until next Tuesday, so I can get away with setting these up in the den temporarily to keep me company.    So my post title won't be seen as clickbait, I will mention that I vacuumed the main floor with the model G on Tuesday, and today I will vacuum the...

I built a wet-dry vac years ago I used a 20-gallon grease drum from the truck shop I worked at, a dolly I got from the shop, a new 7 amp, 2-stage Lamb peripheral-bypass motor that I ordered through the shop, an inverted plastic hanging flower pot for the motor cover, and the hose, hose port...

To Dysonman1 A price please?  I'm in email exchanges with vacman1961, but I like your model L too.  My email is available, so please let me know.

I made my email visible I didn't mean to hide my email address.  It's visible now.

Still interested Vacman1961 and dysonman1, is there some magical incantation I need to utter in order to move forward, or some kind of union card I need to show?    I studied at Hogwarts and can wave my wand with the best of 'em.   Thanks,   Joel

I'm vintage 'lux all the way, but out of curiosity I'm thinking of buying a recent Aerus model to be my daily driver. I prefer to leave out failure-prone electronics. What models should I consider? I prize reliability over glitz and features. I should mention that my daily driver is a Miele...

Thanks to human, everything matches now I appreciate your welcome input, I now have the proper PN-2 for this vacuum. It arrived with probably the most-oxidized cover I've ever seen, but a half hour with polishing compound got it looking very presentable. It has no deep scratches and will buff...

Dysonman1, yes Depends on the price of course. When I moved to PA I swore I would no longer collect vintage vacuums, but here I am up to 7. I really don't need this but it is one sweet machine. I didn't react to your original post because I didn't read it as an offer to sell. I just thought...

Still looking forward to your reply. I'm still interest Very interested in seeing what you have to offer. Joel

I like it! I've never seen one before.

I think it's cool as all get-out Thanks for sharing!

I have a 1205 motor on my bench . . . . . . and it measures 7" end-to-end. If your motor is that length, it requires the shorter armature. Not that there can be much doubt if your machine is indeed a 1205 - the longer motor will not fit it. Joel

Jon, a bojack hose did work perfectly with this handle My bojack replacement hose had finer pitch than the hose this handle came with, but it stretched and screwed right into the handle, and now I have a great non-electric hose. Which is a good thing because the hose's original handle didn't...

There are good YouTube videos out there . . . . . . that will give you the info you need. This one is about the teardown: and this one is about re-assembly: However, don't use grease in the rear sleeve bearing. It has a large felt wick to hold non-detergent motor oil. That is the only...

It's always a risk . . . . . . but in this case, clearly the onus was on me because the seller made no representation about internal condition. As bad as this looks inside, it's 100% functional, so I'm OK with it. Worst case, I have the critical spare parts to keep my other 1205 running for...

I recently acquired another Electrolux 1205 because it looked really clean in the images, came with extra tools, and the seller stated that it was a one-owner machine. I thought great, one owner, it hasn't been passed around and probably was taken very good care of. Attached are images of what...

Thank you I look forward to your reply. Are there other (pre-1205) models that you have available? I'm particularly interested in the E and the AE. Joel

Well this explains some things Thanks for sharing the images. One hardly ever sees a vacuum so nice on the auction sites. Clearly, the really nice examples are in the hands of collectors. I hope that someone will be willing to put one of them into my modest collection. Best regards, Joel

Wow, talk about an, um, hybrid No worries, I was neither offended nor affected in any negative way by your post. So my PN-4A should not have a full-width motor hump (which it does), but the baseplate reads 4A. It seems that someone cobbled this together. Like changes to an old house, I would...

Yep you sure did 'nuff said. Thanks!