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The Miracle Mate along with the other TriStar derived designs are pretty tough birds. Relatively simply design and high quality materials are a winning team here. As long as you can sort of the small things you should have a great machine to use. That bag was a nasty mess but the cloth bag...

Nice haul. Looks like a fun variety of machines to play with. I’m pretty sure one of my old dial a matics has the flowers on it too. The power nozzle for the miracle mate is made by Lindhaus. If you had the bottom half of the Lundhaus pro upright it would be very similar to the MM PN.

Has anyone ever seen a two to three pin conversion wire? Would be nice to use some of my other power nozzles on this silver king instead of the standard Douglas nozzle.

Model plate…

Decided to hit the thrift stores the other day. Salvation arm had a DC 28 for 60 dollars and an Oreck XL2 for 30. I know the DC 28 is suppose to be one of Dysons better models, but I really wasn’t looking to spend that much. I also don’t think there’s much of a difference with the XL2 versus...

The Dyson/Fantom intergrated handle/hose is a clever idea but can be awkward depending on how you use it. When you pull it out you have the whole thing at full extension. If you need the whole thing to reach a tall spot then it’s great. If you don’t need the wand, then you either have to fight...

Yes I do believe the HEPA filter was an option on the Thunder, it does come come right off. After taking the Fury apart for a cleaning I did come across the fluff trap. Better than nothing I suppose.

I kinda figured that the original customer had been sold a replacement power nozzle for whatever reason. If that was the case though you would think it would have a newer one than what originally came it with, not an older. I think I have to say that I like the PN 4 better though. I have a thick...

Maybe a controversial opinion but one of the few things the Hoover Z had going for it was it’s great hose set up. Easy to use and the hose attached at the base of the machine so it wouldn’t upset. The weight of the thing helped keep in place too. Of course the Z was backwards from most vacuums...

Had the good fortune to find a Fantom Fury this weekend. Seems to be in great shape! Haven’t had time to go through it and clean it up but it looks like it shouldn’t need much attention. Now I have to trio as well! Did these have any kind of a motor prefilter or screen? Or was it like the...

Gorgeous! I’ve never need a CB in person. Is the motor the same as the one in the olympia?

I wrapped a silver king flat disk around the center post for some extra filtration. One could trim it up a bit more and secure it with a rubber band if you wanted to look cleaner.

That’sa fantastic find. It’s looks to be in excellent shape and has a lot of kit with it. Certainly worth the asking price! Happy vacuuming!

Filter Queen motors I’m not 100% sure…I’ll have to look on some of my machines but I believe some of the older chocolate brown models used a dual stage lamb electric motor that was similar to what was used in TriStar and some other high end machines. Again will have to do some more research...

Another stroke of luck here, came across this Majestic for only $10! Either the previous owner cared for it like a collector or it’s only been used a handful of times in its life. It just is almost in showroom condition. Just amazing that someone would give away such an expensive almost unused...

I’ve been being very selective about what I buy lately but this 5 dollar Olympia one did manage to follow me home the other day. The question is that the original PN for it? I thought the Olympias had a brown PN-4, this one is a PN-2.

Serpentine belts This probably wouldn’t have worked with your Oreck since it would have the fan on the other side of the motor, but if you have a geared or serpentine belt in something like a canister power nozzle, sometimes you don’t even have to take the entire motor out. If you loosen the...

I would take the motor out, hook the belt around the pulley and then set the whole unit in place. Those kinds of belts don’t have much give so it’s takes some maneuvering to get it in place.

Well one down side to Dysons is that they are incredibly complicated and come apart in about a million pieces it seems, especially the ball models. I found a link to someone who repaired a DC 18, I guess you can see if it’s worth the hassle. The power switch usually isn’t too bad to take apart...

It seems lately I’ve been using my Dysons and their Fantom and Amway cousins a lot in the daily cleaning rotation lately. The DC14 needs a new lower housing but otherwise everything is in great working shape. It’s too bad they stopped making their attachments like the one on the 14 instead of...