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The UK website was GREAT in selling me bags for my Vortech which came to me from eBay and a Canadian seller. I also bought a new upholstery tool from the UK website and it was dispatched immediately. I love my Vortech.

Both Miele and Sebo are overpriced in the US, they are far more reasonable in Europe. Repair parts for Miele can be outrageously expensive. Disposable bags for Miele are quite expensive per bag, there are non-genuine Miele bags that work just as well for much less. Miele vacuums are very...

Rob: I actually didn't know how much they sold for at retail. I bought mine from eBay (came from Canada) for $150 with postage, so I thought it was a good deal. I totally agree about the foam block at the exhaust, like the square-bodied Kenmore canisters had. I agree a Hepa exhaust filter...

I also own the new Vortech Force, the XR3000. It's an awesome machine, much lighter than the original model, but still has all the great features like the cord winder and the pleated HEPA pre-motor filter. Now they use HEPA closed-top disposable bags as well. I love the variable speed motor...

The same company who makes the Clean Obsessed and Perfect bags (they are identical) also makes the genuine Aerus type C bags. That same company ALSO makes the discovery-style upright for Aerus. The least expensive way to buy the Hepa bags for your Lux is to buy the Clean Obsessed or Perfect...

Some of the best straight suction rug nozzles ever tested by the old VCCC were the Filter Queen, Compact, Rexair, and Kenmore.

The last style of metal bodied machines are really exciting.

2025 is going to be a year of great change for me. For one, I'm retiring after 44 years in the vacuum business. I'm selling almost all of the collection (have already sold more than half) but keeping 40 canisters and 10 uprights to carry me through the rest of my life. There are several new...

Photo one, with the stack of model 30's - also has brand new Power Nozzles and Automatic F boxes. This had to be around 1960. You'll note the cords on the PN-1's were long and had the three hose clips.

The information about the model S is engraved on the inside of the bag door. It uses the same motor as the Automatic F model, which are the standard Elux carbon brushes with the screw hole in the 90 degree flag

Those rugs are not inexpensive. I paid over $100 for a Miele rug for my store more than 18 years ago. As I'm retiring the end of April, it's good to know there's a market for my vacuum rugs (Dyson, Oreck, Hoover, etc.). eBay here we come. Say 'cheese' girls.

It's called a "Pigtail Electric Hose", which is how Electrolux describes it. I see the vinyl ones (which don't leak) on eBay along with the old cloth (nylon) braided hoses that most likely DO leak. Buy a vinyl hose and enjoy your Model G. Also, use HEPA cloth disposable bags to preserve the...

Always happy to help. Interesting story of where that hose came from. I was at the VCCC convention when Morgan Fraser was elected. Charlie Watrous and Fred Nelson had a cocktail party to introduce Morgan as a candidate for president of the club. Lots of cocktails and food. One of the attendance...

I have one. I do not have the vacuum. Would be happy to sell you the hose. I also have some attachments if you want to buy them as well.

The Sears Kenmore "Deluxe" vacuum cleaners from the mid 1930s. Works of engineering art.

As far as I am aware, it is only the two rear wheels. You still have to drag it by the front. Only the model 61 is on three wheels, but that's the way it came from the factory.

The hotels get a quantity deal on those Bissell machines. They use them until something happens to them, then they throw them away and get out another one. The hotel itself probably only has about $45 in each machine, their cost. It's much more cost efficient just to use disposable vacuum...

Thank you Les. I had no idea. Taking them off eBay right now. I think I'll just give them away to my friends.

Those look just like the ones that go with my Eureka Challenger model M, which I'm getting ready to put on eBay.

Wow. Had no idea. I guess it happens to us all at some point. There's a long story of how Morgan became President of the V.C.C.C., and I watched it all unfold. Needless to say, I voted for him. We all have to go sometime. This was very unexpected. R.I.P. Morgan Frazer.