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John is it vac lab from ohio?

Paula it's designed to have resistance to keep the handle upright when carrying it. you wont break anything. a small dab of oil at each hinge point may help, but i dont recall doing that to mine when i restored it.

Jimmy is this a document you have about the roll easy marketing? itd be neat to see that

thanks for unearthing the original article again robert! it was a great read an invaluable piece of history on a vintage machine anyone who loves 50's vacuums knows well! intra industry information is rare to find on product development.

usually a bent commutator shaft is caused by a sloppy vac shop tech in that vacuums past life before you got it. rarely they are that way from factory, but usually its caused by impatient shop tech using hammers to get bearings on or off. far as the carbon seating you recent video showed...

that sounds like a bent commutator shaft to me. and that would require a new armature. the fact your vacuum shop couldnt tell that vs a bearing problem is really sad. never use that vac shop again.... the before video was carbons out of proper seating and and a failing sealed bearing. it...

Gj9696 that's a custom hack job. somehow they butchered hoover concept brush strips and but them on a brushroll that kit into into a 500 series kirby. no kirbys ever had replaceable brush strips from the factory let alone beat bars.

they were made NLA 8 years ago. the only way youll find one is if you find one on ebay or a vacuum shop hoard.

you need to lubricate both sleeve bearings on the motor and the brushroll with oil. electrolux used cheap quailty bronze in these bearings and they LOVE oil. you have to lubricate pn AND brushroll bearings yearly or bi yearly with oil to keep them running properly.

The last sears store in Illinois closed yesterday, not the entire company. apparently there are still 10 other sears and like 7 kmarts left. Sears to me died many years ago. they cheapened thier wrenches and hand tools about 10 years ago, and didnt offer anything people wanted in many years...

huskyvacs while it may be against ebay policy, people cross post stuff on ebay, fb marketplace , mercari etc ALL the time. when it sells on another platform, they retract the listing citing "error in the listing" OFTEN.

hoover 300 what does any of what you posted have to do with the topic thread at all? she was asking specifically about hoover cleaners. not anything you posted. either you replied to the wrong topic or didnt read her post.

it's a floor polisher that's why. vacuum collectors really dont have high demand for floor polishers, buffers, extractrors, floor a matics, scrubbers, etc. ive even pointed out extremely rare floor a matics on fb marketplace for cheapo and no one cares. that rainbow by itself will likely...

concept ones are extremely loud because of the dinky motor fans they have. motor service might help, but they are not at all quiet machines. thats one reason why i dont like them. your 3101 is the very first concept one from 1978.

fan-of-fans yes the celebrity ii and iv powermatic just simply take hoover convertible brush strips. however the brushroll core itself is not the same dimension and cannot be interchanged with a convertible sans the pulley endcap. the ametek motor i found for the pn motor replacement after...

suction selector buttons kate buy silicone spray from a hardware store and give it good spray in each button. the plastic cams should unstick and press easily after. your suction selector should work fine then.

Here's a photo of the powermatic pn for that s3061 celebrity ii.

Kate, frankly the s3061 celebrity ii you got with its hose is a better machine than the celebrity QS. the powermatic pn's on the celebrity ii and iv are much more reliable and you can still get brush strips for these pn's. in fact amatek still makes power nozzle motors for the powermatic pn's as...

yes, the paper bag setup on a tradition is quite useless. it creates too much backpressure in the sani emtor reducing effective airflow. do yourself a favor, throw out the bag and fulltube, and buy an old stock tradition dump bag. you'll thank yourself later. they are still found easily on...

it's called a sunbeam dual deluxe and it one of the most powerful vintage vacuums ever made