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    Hoover H bags

    Genuine Hoover Green paper bags are your best bet
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    Hoover Bag Retaining Spring Wanted

    Go to your local vac shop and get the retainer spring for a Sanitaire that uses F&G bags
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    Electrolux Marquee

    There are replacement handlgrips available. Check Ebay
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    considering an electrolux silverado to replace my sentria

    Hi Don! Where in regard to Chicago are you? I know a few good shops in the suburbs that can probably set you up right.
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    Lux F to the Spa!

    Detroitdirtbag - upgraded members can edit and remove posts for up to 6 hours after posting
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    Electrolux model F

    Vacuum America Clean brand makes a good HEPA C bag
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    Cars!

    Chrysler used to sell the slant-6 to John deere for some of their hay equipment. We retired a hay swathe about 3 years ago powered by a slant 6 with over 20000 engine hours on it, and not a single teardown. That is a LOT of engine hours, gas or diesel. It was cold blooded and didn't want to...
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    New Vacuum Room -- Beginnings

    Well the last of the machines made it into the house today. Nowhere near put away, but being days away from paying another months rent at the storage unit (which still had all of my tools, and the last of my furniture in it) I rushed everything to the house. Right now the place is a disheveled...
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    Battery troubles

    Brandonhusky I've had interstate batteries last over 10 years regular use
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    Battery troubles

    Working around diesel trucks and equipment, which have 2-4 batteries each, we change a LOT of batteries in a year. We use NAPA brand batteries or Interstate for the oddball batteries...no complaints other than the fella running the counter at our interstate store is an absolute moron... I...
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    Electrolux model 60 (LX) motor suggestions and other Electrolux questions

    Here is a several year old video of my LX ejecting the bag. The removal of the hose from the machine is enough to trip the bag ejector on an early model 60 without the dust adjustment dial
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    My 50-year-old HVAC system gives up the ghost

    "Ford radiator" now what you need there Is a reputable radiator shop! We have had one in the Chicagoland area for many years, Rex radiator. They have probably done 200 radiators for us through the years. They recored the radiator on my International scout most recently...at a fraction of the...
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    Telephones

    Bell would run ringer impedance tests at night to see how much resistance was on the line. Many people who found out about this would disconnect the ringer on the unlisted extension and never got caught
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    Telephones

    My grandpa was a 40 year employee if Illinois Bell. Even his time spent in the service was installing their telephones and radios. I've got probably 40 phones scattered around the house and garage...and several are still connected! I haven't had internet and telephone brought to the new house...
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    "Happy Birthday", Owen Perkins!

    I do believe Betty White once stated that they are "Birthday Whacks"
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    Hoover Model 150 Bag

    I hate to say it, but both of those bags are nearly impossible to find. I now own the machine in picture 2 with the genuine replacement bag, and I have only ever seen one other machine with that replacement bag
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    Cars!

    My place of Employment is Mopar exclusive in all our 20,000GVWR and smaller trucks. We run them plenty hard, plowing snow and pulling overloaded trailers. In 45 years, and a combined 1.5 million miles across the vehicles we only had one transmission fail early (90K), but knock on wood the rest...
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    Cars!

    I ran through more beaters in high school than some people will own in their life. When I started driving I was rolling around an an 82 Ford F250 dump truck from my grandpa. The brake lines ended up rotting out, and the truck was on it's last leg as it was. We scrapped the ford and I bought a...
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    New Vacuum Room -- Beginnings

    That upright, and later on the bag, were gifts from Owen Perkins. We saved the upright from a dumpster and threw a cord on. I think he found the bag on a central vac install...
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