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That's a thought, I need to find my bag o' belts for the Juniors, not sure where I put the things... :&#92

I think I ended up using those bags as packaging for ornaments when we moved house back in November, not sure what I did with them afterwards though (my memory sucks), and I'm not sure if I have any of those H1-type bags left, need to check the ol' bags box... :P

I just recalled, the pound shop bag doesn't have a zip (I was thinking of something on Instructables where they made a bag out of at-shirt and used a zip), it has velcro at the opposite end from the inlet, so, if the velcro gave way, out would come all the dirt into the bag chamber of the Z1185...

It's a pretty standard bag for us Sanitaire owners, it's the Hoover ones that are tiny... :P And just for fairness, here's a Hoover H1 cardboard bag fitted in my ZC-880... :P (though, it really really really restricted performance!!)

With a cloth bag upgrade, even Hoovers can be fitted with F&G bags to improve their effectiveness... ;) This one is my very briefly owned Senior 652A, the original bag (hanging there on Stripey Cat to dry out after hand washing) was waaaaay too small to take an F&G, but that didn't stop me...

I have one of them pound shop cloth bags, originally bought to use with my Electrolux Z1185, but I never did as it's made of material like what cheap kids' tents are made from, with a leaky looking zip at the back end of the bag (where the dirt would have hit in that vac and jammed it up), and...

You know when you've been Tango'd... :P

Just clean it out and it'll be fine, they're pretty simple and very strong machines, so a little rust and a funny smell isn't going to kill it... :) My Electrolux C12 (same thing, different continent) was in terrible condition, full of dirt in the motor, and parts very worn out, but with some...

To be completely honest I don't like either of the designs... :&#92 But, that said, the bottom-fill version is easier to work with as you have more room in the cloth bag to work with, giving room to play with different non-hoover bags to improve filtration, like my two Juniors here using...

I couldn't stand the U1104 I had, yeah it worked well and was in decent shape bar a few gouges and cracks in the plastics, but it was that dual-purpose handle-release-come-power-switch that really got on my nerves, pressing it to release the handle to lower it to the floor for under-furniture...

Well, when people see that new isn't always better, they may think again... :P I think that most people don't looks at old vacs as an investment cos of it's association with dirt, and not knowing who's used it and what they picked up with it... :&#92 Still, we know better... :P

Stick the name, model number and "belts" into google and it'll let you know... :)

Less copper cable = More profits... ;) I got an apparently genuine Hoover replacement cable for my rebuilt Junior, and even that was longer than what had been fitted, presumably aftermarket, but someone had obviously driven over it with the vac and stripped a lot of the insulation off revealing...

The only plastic-bodied wires-moulded-in suppressors I've seen the most are the ones in 240v Kirbys, though never ad any problems with those, other than remembering where they were connected... :P

I don't often see many older barrel types, there was one in the Senior I had, but someone seemed to think it was superfluous to the design and cut the wires to it, but didn't remove it, which was odd...

Yeah, the U1104 had it's suppressor blow when I had it, it was down to the brand used (Rifa), which are notorious for detonating and gassing off and all that no matter what the application they're used in, the smell was terrible, I thought I'd picked up a rotten egg when the thing blew... :S...

Looks like it's cleaned up well though, can't say I like the colour myself, but that's just me, I may not like Hoovers, but I do like the Juniors... :) Yeah, Hoover didn't get the memo that dirt goes into the bag, not the motor, when making these, all the Juniors I've had came with dirt around...

For me, I don't care to be honest, dirt gets in regardless tracked in on clothes, shoes, pets and all that, so a dirty vac is not really going to be any different, it's just more "concentrated as it were", but for me, I have a rule, any vac I bring in must clean up it's own mess when it's fixed...

"Hey that's Topgears favourite car the one that pia Yeah, that's a real problem in this country, pianos falling off buildings and planes and all that, and just happen to all land on Morris marinas... :P How it may have started for me, well, I'll just come right out and say it, I'm a...

I'd say the Sebo, mainly because the produce some excellent power nozzles, as fitted onto the Felix, and have a proper balance of suction and airflow to keep the vacuum working perfectly... :)