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Interesting. Do you cut the new bags collar off first (I'm working on the assumption the new bags collar might be larger than the one for your vac)? What glue do you use? I have tried cutting collars down to fit vacuums but often find the bag is glued too close to the edge of the collar to...

More Kenmore porn is always so hot!

Too much logic there. They got their minute of YouTube fame. Gotta have your priorities. Right? Sigh.

Yep, Kirbylux77 is on target. We had some of the vacuum pages from the 1985 Sears Catalog posted here on another thread and their TOL canister with Powermate listed for $549.00. If you inflate 1985 dollars to 2014 dollars using historical inflation data those were $1000 vacuums in today's...

Here is a thought. There is a site called SearsCatalogsOnline.com . The site will let you ask for digital copies of a section of the Sears Catalog for three different catalog years. I asked for the vacuum section for 1971, 1983 the two years of my parents old vacuums, and for 1990. If we...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Toshiba-Canister-Vacuum-Cleaner-VC-410-Attachments-Filter-Bagless-Tos-Vac/371136987806?_trksid=p5411.c100167.m2940&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140131123730%26meid%3D79da24a32bf44f81aea69abeeff07e86%26pid%3D100167%26prg%3D20140131123730%26rk%3...

Do you still have old paper Sears catalogs you reference or is there a site where all those old catalogs are searchable?

I posed a question to Panasonic a week or so ago asking when Matsushita/Panasonic began producing vacuums for Sears under the Kenmore name. I also asked if any of their vacs have the new "impulse" motor used in the Kenmore Elite canister (since Panasonic continues to use conventional 1 1/4 inch...

I have a Kenmore 3.1 canister vac that is a Ryobi manufactured copy of a Singer DLC 100 or 200. It is an interesting design with a drawer that slides out the front with the bag and a peripheral discharge motor. Suction is weak, and it is cheaply made. Bags and filters are long out of...

The seller originally put it up for auction a month or two ago and I was watching it waiting for someone to bid on it. I was too busy at the time with other projects to buy it. I figured they would relist it and I would bid later on. When the auction closed they didn't relist it. I...

The seller came down a lot. A whole lot. When all is said and done I'll be in as far with the Lux I bought for $25 at the Starvation Army but needed and still needs parts and work to be perfect as I am into this thing.

Nope. I Retrobrited the old Kenmore 4.1 featured in another thread at the same time I did the Jet Flow. I treated the Kenmore's graphics because that is unfortunately where much of the yellowing was. It didn't harm it at all. No etching, no dulling, no harm whatsoever. I have read where...

That is a very good tip Tom. Thanks.

It shows how little people value the fruit of their labor. Maybe it is having had Depression era parents, but noting is wasted and we certainly don't destroy a working appliance that way just to make a funny video. Most of us have to work hard to afford these things, and Dysons are not an...

The decline of civilization.

I dunno dude. The A-B is a beyatch to work on. I can field strip one of those first gen 5055 bagged machines and have the motor and cord reel sitting on the table and the lower body in the sink in minutes. I'm about as fast with a Whimpertone, only the wiring to the relay and through the...

There are a number of sellers on ebay selling 12% hydrogen peroxide. I just shopped price per unit volume and bought the biggest bottle offered, 24 oz. As far as precautions, wear some heavy chemical proof gloves. I used to deliver gasoline so I have a few sets of these left over. You can...

Here are the after photos. Included is an image of the centers holdings of Kenmore vacuums, minus three that are in active use and thus not stored with the restored vacuums. There is a dark blue Whispertone in the far corner between a white 4.5 and a white Whispertone. Isn't it surprising how...

The KHDRC recently bought two very inexpensive early 1980's Kenmore canister vacuums intending to use the most cosmetically challenged vac as a parts source and the more attractive of the two would be re-motored with a modern Ametek_Lamb two stage Advantek series motor to make a real suction...

The Kenmore High Desert Restoration Center had to put in a hard weekend to clear a back log of outstanding projects. The first is a 1983 Kenmore 4.1 canister with infinitely variable motor speed via a dial on the left rear corner of the bag chamber lid, and the off/on/floor switch is on the...