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Two more Swedish made Luxes, and my dialed up Epic 8000 with the 6500-298 motor. The D748-D795 have their motors sitting at attention, field on top, fan below just like a mid 1980s Kenmore Premier. You can see it's a bruiser too, physically huge and heavy. The D820 is probably the finest...

None of those were made in Switzerland. Everything through the D820 was made in Sweden with the exception of the last run of the Lux 1R D820. Some of those were made in Hungary and came with a stonking powerful Domel motor that is also sold in a kit as a replacement for the non-repairable two...

The only Sanitaire service center I know of didn't know how. The guy had it two or three weeks and could not figure it out. There is literally no literature on them any more and because so few were sold you don't find anyone who has any experience with them.

If you look at the 1989 Sears Catalog page, vacuums 3 and 4, little Kenmore Capri models, are a vacuum I have a weird fascination for. I have examples of almost every flavor of them including one that I really hot rodded as a daily driver. That one I replaced the mild single stage motor with a...

Looks like my gray D745, seen here right after unboxing and before being refurbished. The brown and yellow one is a D730. The upper yellow plastic on that one was broken and required replacement. It is riveted to the steel main body and was a real mama bear to remove. The gray D745 only...

A little plea to our European cousins. If anyone has a wiring schematic for an Electrolux Z457, the vacuum on which the Sanitaire S490A is based, or has some photos of what wire goes where on the main board I would be deeply appreciative. Thanks.

Check it out. 1989. One of my favorite old Kennys. I guess they are kind of rare too. Amazingly two brand new still in the original plastic bag gray hoses for the Heavy Duty 3.9 came up on eBay a few years ago and I swooped. I have to take some photos of this Kenmore branded Eureka I...

Did both. No joy. Sanitaire has no data on anything that old. Funny story my vac shop owner and long time Sanitaire dealer friend told me. When Bissell bought Sanitaire the people at Sanitaire were so offended they basically destroyed, erased, shredded or managed to loose every bit of data...

The Kenmore Heavy Duty line as interesting. They were sold 1988 ish to maybe 1990. Aside from a couple of Heavy Duty branded Singer Twin Fan models and a Whirlpool soft bag upright, they brought back the old square canister body from 1974 with the lid that had an attachment cubby molded in and...

This was a house brand of the Sebo K3. An Australian seller paid Sebo to make these with their name on them. Sebo does this often and that model has not been superseded. It remains in production as Sebo's lowest priced canister and power nozzle vacuum...

fhp.fi in Finland has synthetic HEPA dust bags for many of these old Volta, Progress, Electrolux and AEG models that ended up in the US sold as Eureka or Sanitaire models. Example, the S6982 / 6983 / 6984 series, in the US you only find crummy paper bags but if you look at fhp.fi in their...

Celebrity QS, top of the line back then.

If you have any influence with Hoover beg them to make a synthetic HEPA CU2 dust bag! That is the one and only thing the Hushtone is missing.

Sears also sold a version of the Eureka Ironsides canister and Vibragroomer power nozzle with Kenmore Heavy Duty branding. I have one but haven't taken purdy pictures of it yet.

I bought one of those very same Progress models for parts for my S490A and discovered they are actually very different inside. Also really bad plastics on the Progress.

Some like my System Pro were made in Hungary

I once brought a Dial-A-Matic home with me on a business trip from Baltimore to California. I boxed it up nice and made handles on the outside of the box with fiber reinforced strapping tape, and brought on the flight as a checked bag ! It was under 50 pounds so good to go. Cost me $25 that...

Good girl Missy. Gooood girl. Border Collie mix?

I have never been the biggest fan of Hoover uprights, or uprights in general for that matter. I have a Caddy Vac ( the first vacuum I ever paid money for ) and a Breathe Easy, both in excellent condition but I never use them. So for reasons I cannot fathom I recently bought a Commercial Hoover...

The vacuum with the attachment cubbies on the sides is the Sanitaire SP6950 / 6951 / 6952 series, based on the AEG P3 System Pro. They were made in an Electrolux Group factory in Hungary. The SP6950 is suction only. The SP6951 came in red with plastic wands and an Express power nozzle. The...