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Re: Belt Guard The first picture is from the owners manual printed in Dec 1931 No belt guard The second picture is from the owners manual printed in Aug 1932 belt guard added

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The 300 used Ball Bearings Upper bearing 42166 Lower Bearing 42172 The ball bearings take grease Sleeve bearings use oil Agitator Brush Long 82344 Short 82345 If the Agitator is the original then the brush strip will have a screw at the outside end. Take the screw out and move the brush strip...

You mean like this?

Filter Queen Never used bags, they always used filter cones.

I have a Henry NV200 from 1986 and a Henry HVR200-11 from 2018 and love both of them. Congrats on your Henry

If you enlarge the flyer from Electrolux137 and look at the section Handsome in Appearance - Light in Weight, it even tells you that it's Bakelite. Just in case here's what it says Whenever possible the manufacture of the Aer-Rotor Sanitation System has utilized Bakelite to give the power unit...

Kirby Part # A1181 Commutator Brush Cap 505 - 518 $4.32 in Kirby parts manual This is why I never read anything by Les, that and the fact that if he could spell or even construct a sentence it would help.

the WW2 scrap drives Funny, I don't remember the government having scrap drives for Bakelite, because the whole top assembly was Bakelite along with the upholstery tool. I'm sure that all that Bakelite would have helped win the war.

That may be from a Scott & Fetzer Aer Rotor

Or You could test the armature with a growler. That should provide entertainment for a while.

Some of the switches that I have seen have sparked when you turn on the vacuum or turn off the vacuum. If you have to toggle several times to get it to turn on or off the switch is definitely going bad. My guess is this is what happened to your switch. It also looked like a bare wire in the...

I got another Filter Queen Carpet tool and decided since half the bristles were worn down I tore out all the bristles and just rebristled in a cinnamon color to kind of match the pinkish brown.

Let's see, from pic 4 I'm seeing a bare wire (the white one) that would be inside a metal tube (the handle) that would short circuit to the handle.

I was given a Filter Queen D31X on Saturday, so now I have a pair.

The Sanitation System, 1C and 2C have an entirely different motor then the later models. The 3C started a different motor that they carried thru the 500 series. If he had a 3C you could swap in a motor from a later series like a 505 - 519. Does anyone ever read any of the service manuals ???????

Kirby discontinued the Sanitation System, 1C and 2C about 1960. The ONLY way to get an Armature or Field is to have it rewound, and Kirby states that in the earlier service manuals. 3C is compatible with the 500 series as per the service manual but not sure what year they discontinued those.

The armature got shot With a bullet? You must live in a rough neighborhood

I would say it was made in 1923. The early 541 was a 6/6 bristle, later on they went to a 5/7 configuration. The cord is a replacement but it looks good on the vacuum. Be sure to add a couple of drops of oil every so often, use 3-IN-ONE Motor Oil. The brushroll should have ball bearings in it...