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If I'm not mistaken, this is a hose for a Royal vacuum cleaner. It is NOS, has never been used. This is a replacement part; you re-use existing hardware from each end of your existing hose and cement them onto this new hose. Price: $12.50 plus shipping.

In case you don't have the misfortune to know what the Mach 5 looks like, here is a full picture of one version, the "All Terrain." The attachments on the side are mis-matched.

Maybe driving on dirt roads like that is part of what contributes to the filtration problem in those machines! Since you seem to be a Hoover man, you may be aware of the following. I've selected this Hoover Model U5194-900 as having a most asinine name. Look closely at the decalomania on the...

I've worked on a couple of DC 07's but I don't remember this port. If it serves no other function than tool storage, why not cement it in place? If it is detachable because there is something underneath that might someday need service or as a function of disassembly, you could secure it with...

View of the bottom.

I've had this attachment around for months but never took a closer look at it. Yesterday, I dusted it off and stuck it onto the end of a canister vac. This device indeed is turbo powered by the source vacuum. There is an inherent weakness in turbo-powered accessories in that normally, they...

Yes, Dustin, you might want to check and see if one of the rear wheels is grinding away on the case. The amount of drag it creates is very noticeable. It's difficult for us to imagine how this kind of damage occurs, but if dropped down stairs or similar it could happen. Or while being...

In my experience, curry is one of the most difficult smells to get out of a vacuum cleaner completely and utterly. When a machine comes my way now with that smell, I pass on it. The one I struggled with I cleaned while disassembled more than once. Certain parts had to be cleaned with a spray...

There is a pair of tabs swaged onto the axle to keep it indexed and stationary. Only the wheels are supposed to turn. The slot for the tabs is molded into the plastic case on both sides so the tabs will index whichever way the axle is installed. If the broken out hole is on the side with the...

This final picture shows the repair on the other case I was working on. This hole goes through the motor compartment side of the main case. The repair is shallow enough that there will be no interference with the motor. Note how the flooded epoxy goes right up to but not into the mouth of the...

This picture shows the same cavity in the main case after I've flooded the area around the bushing with bulk epoxy. After this epoxy cures, the entire area will be as solid as a rock. I've repaired many broken plastic vacuum cleaner parts using metals and epoxy, parts that normally would be...

This picture shows the inside cavity that the bushing protrudes into. It has the first course of epoxy holding it in place. Note the scuffing from the Dremel tool for the benefit of the follow-on flooding of bulk epoxy.

Okay, here is the first "bushing" (drilled cartridge case) set in place with the first course of epoxy. Note the axle in place to hold the bushing in alignment while the epoxy cures.

This picture shows the heads of the cartridge cases. The one on the left still has the spent primer in place; the one on the right has been drilled out to have a centered hole of .25 in it. Sidebar: I've used spent cartridge cases to repair stuff before. Years ago, I used them to fix Ford...

These are .30 US Carbine cartridge cases viewed from the side. They have a straight wall slightly larger than the axle diameter of .25.

This is what a broken axle hole looks like. Actually, this one isn't too bad. Note the scraping marks in the wheel well on the case from a dragging wheel.

I work on lots of Kenmore uprights, the abundant common machines of 10-15 year old vintage. One of the things I find out of order from time to time concerns the wheels. They are mounted on a common metal axle at the bottom of the main case/housing. The metal axle is held in place by tabs...

Very common source of brown residue on vacuum cleaners: Canine vomitus.

Notice the lint in the PC board components in one of the pics. I've seen burned up boards due to lint build-up, so it's important for people to clean that out from time to time. A couple of years ago, I was able to get the light green tool caddy from Hesco, then last year I tried to get blue...