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The color scheme of the Sanitaire upright ...is my favorite. The red base and bag, chrome handle and hood, and the cream cord and cord hooks seem to go together real well, though my SC886 and basically any other Sanitaire for the past decade or so comes with grey cords and hooks. The color...

Well, I did a search for 3-72105-000 and lo and behold, eBay has it. It's about 20.00, which seems to be a bit high for carbon brushes and caps, but it's probably my only chance to buy them since Google Shopping literally only turned up just this listing on eBay and nothing else. If I don't...

During a teardown of my Royal 884 a while ago, I discovered that the carbon brushes are less than 1/2" long. Of course Royal parts are hard to come by, so I may have to go with generic carbon brushes that fits the brush holders. The 884's OEM brushes look to be similarly dimensioned to Kirby...

Lo and behold... The white and black leads fron the motor were reversed, causing the motor to run on high when the switch was not depressed and on low when the switch was depressed. It's back to normal again sans the actuator arm. Now, I'm just finishing the primering/painting of the handle and...

Hmmm... My motor runs on low when the switch is depressed, but runs on high when the switch is NOT depressed (at least from what I remember, I could be wrong, I was only able to look at it for a few moments -- I've been having 50-55 hr weeks for a while due to A/C season. Lots of calls, not...

Ben, My 884 is from 1988. How come Royal had so many revisions in their motors? Did they change suppliers frequently?

I would like to see them bring back the older designs I have a DS50 and am amazed at how light it is and how easy it is to push and carry. I also have an Avalir and while it is heavier, I'm a 25-year-old in pretty good shape so it is no effort for me to push around with Tech Drive disabled. My...

Here are my thoughts. Hoover experts, please chime in! Since it is highly unlikely that I am going to find an actuator arm and since I am OK with not having high motor speeds for a hose I don't have, I have been considering to bypass the switch. There is one lead coming in on one side of the...

Well, I bent the armature fan blades back as best as I could. They're not straight and true as they were from the factory, but good enough. I will have to find some other way to lock the armature should I ever need to remove the fan or get into the motor, as the blades are very easily bent. I...

I have the switch but I'm just missing the actuator arm. I'm assuming that the actuator depresses the switch when the handle is lowered for floor mode (low speed), and as soon as the handle goes up, the actuator is taken off of the switch, making the motor run on hose (high) speed. Is that...

Hi all, I recently acquired a U4007 Convertible. It had been broken down to clean and refurbish. Upon putting it back together, I realized that the speed switch actuator was missing. A search in my garage turned up nothing, so I have to buy one. Apparently the part (18588) is NLA on all the...

It's just my wife and I She doesn't use any of my vacuums, which are all bagged and direct air. Old-fashioned, clumsy, "uncool", out-of-date -- just the way I like it. I did buy her a Dyson Animal 2 for her birthday, however, which she uses, so she could vacuum again. Up until this year, we...

I recently disassembled my Royal 884 5.4 amp. Upon trying to spin the suction fan loose by locking the armature fan with a screwdriver (and being as gentle as I could), I bent the armature fan quite a bit. After pulling the armature out of the shell, I noticed that the armature fan was quite...

I actually don't do any hose/canister cleaning in my hou I wipe down or wash just about everything anyway and my uprights does edges really well. My stairs are not carpeted so that's a plus. I do use my Shop Vac to clean my condenser coils on my fridge and the inner workings of my dryer. Other...

No, but since I have seven vacuums (Kirby Avalir, Kirby Heritage II, Kirby Dual Sanitronic, Royal 884, JCPenney [Hoover] Convertible Sanitaire SC886 and Dyson Ball Animal 2). I literally have a vacuum for every day of the week. I think that I am done collecting, that is unless I run across a...

As far as them being rare... They might not have sold well is my guess. Usually commercial equipment costs more than its domestic equivalent, and Kirby vacuums are/were already expensive as it is. The commercial versions of the Kirby probably followed this trend and commanded a price premium...

This project should be easy for you... Its finish is good enough that there is still a bit of reflection, so it should polish up to a mirror like shine real well. My Heritage II Legend was very dull when I took it home from the thrift store. Aside from the handle lean, it now looks brand new...

Sooooo...I'm almost finished with my D50 and unfortunately, I'm missing the screw that attaches the dual speed switch assembly to the fancase. I've checked my entire workbench, my garage floor -- nothing. So, it's looking like I'll have to either run to the hardware store or order an OEM screw...

Thanks for all your help! I'm going to try the plier trick first and bend the slot a little to see if that works. As far as the handle stop goes, it doesn't appear broken, chipped off or worn. The holes on the handle fork didn't seem to be ovaled out, at least when I rebuilt this vac a few...

Huh... I've been meaning to ask about my serial number of my D50 (A103700) and about Kirby serial numbers in general. At first glance, there was nothing in the serial number that matched the production period of the D50 (1965-67), but then I reasoned that the date was not formatted into the...