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I came to realize that last week, I was starting to hijack the thread linked below (replies 14 and 15). Instead of continuing down that path, I decided it would be better to finish off the story here, in its own thread: As the subject line suggests, I now have a Eureka Roto-Matic power head for...

The only place I've experienced multiple shower heads is in a hotel. It always seemed like overkill to me. I do prefer a handhed shower head over a wall-mounted one, simply because it makes cleaning the shower easier and I can point it away from me while I'm waiting for the water to heat up...

I've never used an upright with a cord winder, so I can't really comment on that aspect. Perhaps because I've never experienced anything different, I don't really mind the cord hooks on an upright, and I am especially appreciative of machines like Kirbys that have the upper cord hook on a swivel...

Yeah, every now and then a stray accessory comes in handy. I have a Royal Prince 501 handheld that came to me complete in the box, except for the upholstery brush. After rooting around in the barn for a few minutes, I came up with an identical brush that had come with a Douglas ATV shop vac that...

I worked at Pizza Hut for a couple of summers in 1982-'83, and the store where I mainly worked had a small Craftsman wet/dry shop vac to vacuum the dining room. Probably a wise choice for vacuuming up fragments of salad, pasta and pizza crust, although its 1/25-inch hose routinely got clogged...

Shop vacs can also be used to pick up bulkier debris that something like a Mighty Mite would choke on. When my (now ex-) wife and I were remodeling her house, I dislodged a room's worth of oak parquet flooring and then used her dad's Craftsman shop vac with a two-inch hose to suck them all up...

Not meaning to kibbutz here, but if you can work something out with Dysonman on his machine, it would actually make more sense (at least to my mind) to use yours as a potential parts donor for it. Of course, I've also been known to strip parts off of one machine to fix another, and then turn...

Nice upgrade... Same thing happened with my GE dishwasher, which I just replaced with a Whirlpool. You definitely made a worthwhile upgrade. I hope it gives you many years of good service.

The last time I checked, the closest Aerus dealer was about 40 miles away from me. It's been a long time since I've visited it, but a Web search says it's still there.

Filter cover... Another option for finding a filter cover is eBay. People are always parting out vacuum cleaners on there. It can be a bit of a fishing expedition, but you'll eventually find what you need.

Well, I went and did it... After writing the above last night, I allowed myself to fall into that 'rabbit hole' called eBay and actually found a Rotomatic power head that would appear to be a match for that Ironsides. It has a big brown decal on top of the white cover, which appears to be...

It's funny, but Electrolux in that era had a tendency to update model numbers out of sync with the model names and color schemes. The Golden J was indeed a cosmetic update of the 1205, and the earlier Olympia One was really a Super J with a chocolate brown paint job. Likewise, the Silverado was...

The city came yesterday and hauled the old GE dishwasher away. I'm glad not to have it cluttering my deck anymore. I'm getting close to running the new dishwasher for the second time. It's just me, so it takes a while to generate enough dirty dishes to warrant running it. I'm still trying to...

I'm holding out for a Eureka Princess power team from the '70s like my ex-wife made me get rid of. The day I walk into a thrift store and see one of those is the day I declare my collection complete. I found a very similar Ironsides a few years ago with the hose and a floor brush, but no other...

I have a Diplomat LX like that. It was a dumpster rescue during the pandemic isolation. I was dropping off a package of toilet paper and a few other essentials at a friend's apartment, and spotted a familiar vacuum cleaner hose handle next to the dumpster. Somebody had cut the cord before...

I love vintage vacuum cleaners, but not vintage sales schemes. Thankfully, the door-to-door (d2d) sales/coercion model is finally dying a well-deserved—and frankly overdue—death. Today's consumers are far more comfortable and familiar with online shopping, and it seems that at least some...

I'm not worried about it... While it's sad to see another proud American brand fall by the wayside, I can't say I'm all that worried about the loss of Aerus, should it happen. The company has been drifting into irrelevancy ever since it stopped using the Electrolux name. I have more than enough...

It's hard to narrow it down to just one. I love both of my 1205s, but often, when I put a lot of work into a machine, I tend to develop more of an affinity for it, and such is the case with my Silverado deluxe. It's not pretty, actually borders on being a frankenvac, but I put a lot of myself...

Granted, I don't haunt thrift shops the way I used to, but at best, I might only see one or two vacuums a year that I would consider to be worthwhile. No, vacuums haven't completely disappeared from thrift stores around here, but what shows up is mostly not worth a second look. It's rare to see...

I agree. The new dishwasher seemed to take an inordinate amount of time for a normal/heated dry cycle, but the end result was worth the wait. I thought the whole interior was stainless steel, but it turns out only the inside of the door is stainless. The tub is black plastic with a pewter...