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Vintage machines are in the rotation with a late 90s Electrolux (not quite vintage I guess but after the work I put in it to refurbish it I treat it like it's vintage) and a new Kenmore Progressive. I love the ten foot long hoses on the old square Kenmores. I can park the vac in one spot in...

Maybe attach a bare wire to the underside of the vac that is long enough to drag on the floor in order to discharge the static build up?

Are you sure it isn't 5001 rather than 5007? Not being snippy, just asking, I'm looking. 5023, 5033 and E are different names for the same bag.

I only have one Electrolux at this point, an Epic 8000, and while the powered floor brush is very good, I would not say it is superior to the normal Panasonic built Powermate from the late 1970's forward. Lux floor brushes lack any sort of height adjustment which seems to be a pretty egregious...

Just finished vacuuming my home a few minutes ago with a cream and wood grain 3.9 two speed canister, but I used a modern horse hair floor brush for the tiled areas, a Hayden Deluxe for the carpet and the cool little multi angle brush that came with the Elite Intuition vacs the last few years to...

I doubt it. You need some airflow to get the dust moving into the vacuum. All that did was smash the dust flat in the cushion.

Thrift store? Yard sale? Back of a friends or relatives closet? Grand theft? How'd you get them?

Here is an older example of a Kenkart. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-1950S-KENMORE-Torpedo-COMMANDER-Vacuum-Cleaner-MODEL-116-7360-/141392350637?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20eba40dad Ok, don't crash the ebay website bidding on it all at once.

Eh, I'm waving the BS flag on that one. If that were true home central vacuums would have no suction. They usually have a hundred feet of plumbing in them. An awful lot of central vacuums use 5.7 inch Lamb through flow motors that are not much different than what comes in some high end...

Oh, does Wessel-Werk count? No one has mentioned them yet.

Yes! That's the company, Fakir. Thanks. I knew I wasn't loosing my mind.

Interesting. It is a clever tool. Next there will be a screen at the connection end to catch the change you lost down between the seat cushions. Make vacuuming pay!

Still can't figure why modern vacs don't have ten foot long hoses, or at least offer them as an option. Makes a canister into something very close to a central vacuum. My old Kemores with long hoses can be parked in one spot and all you push around is the Powermate. You hardly ever have to...

Wikipedia has Nilfisk manufacturing in Germany too? They also turn up in listings of German vacuum manufacturers I have been prowling to find the name of that company I just cannot remember. It's making me crazy that I cannot remember the name! Their uprights look a lot like a Sebo upright...

Just curious but when you take the bottom plate off to replace a belt or brush roll is the wheel accessable?

Nope, it's not Vorwerk. I stumbled on them a year ago, they have a Wikipedia page even, but darned if I can remember the name of the company. It's obscure and the company was started I believe either right before or right after WWII. It is considerably older than Sebo. Also, doesn't...

Doesn't Aerus make some vacuums in Germany also?

Oh it's driving me nuts but there is another firm that makes uprights at a very old family owned facility in Germany that the family has slowly expanded over the years. Expensive, reportedly high quality, similar in some ways to Sebos (and we could get in long arguments over who came up with...

Douglas used to sell something along those lines called the Hydro Flow Home Cleaning Unit, kind of a canister wet/dry vac/shampooer thing. Smart idea actually.

All housewives did their hair, put on make up, wore a dress and heels to do house work back then. Dontcha remember? Every TV and magazine ad said it was so, therefore it had to be.