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Something tells me the Titan T8000 bagless canister vacuum would put anything from Diesoon back on the trailer. Let's see vacuum fiction test one.

The old Electrolux motor factory was sold to the employees and is now known as Electromotor Inc. They sell two drop in replacement motors for the Epic 6500 SR. One has flat fans and makes a lot less power than the original Renaissance motor in your Epic. That motor is 6500-293 and is the one...

Many auto parts stores let you borrow tools. An internally expanding bearing puller is pretty standard stuff for pulling wheel and transmission bearings out of their housings. They ought to have something you can borrow, maybe even do the deed right on the parts counter.

I had the Kirby sales person put their hose on their demo Kirby and measure the airflow with their BAIRD Meter thingy. Then we put the BAIRD meter on the end of the hose of our existing and well used Kenmore Elite 800 Series canister, the 21814 model. It matched the Kirby. Then I put a...

Patience and persistence are key attributes when collecting. I sometimes stalk ebay for many years waiting for a component I need to finally show up. Then I swoop. Just this past week a vacuum arrived on my door that I have been looking for for the better part of a decade. I often will buy...

A slide hammer will break the plastic. I think an internally expanding bearing race puller like motorcycle mechanics use to pull wheel bearings is a better choice. A slow gradual pull is safer on plastic than a slide hammer. Also, heat the plastic in hot water so it expands a bit and looses...

Hot tip. There is a much more powerful replacement motor that from Electromotor Inc that is a drop in replacement for the original. It is their 6500-298. It has the same outer mold line as the motor you have in your Ambassador including the tapered fan. It is a drop in replacement for the...

eBay is your friend. GE hoses turn up with regularity.

We have an Avalir 2 but for me it's a wrestling match to use it. Thing doesn't want to turn to go around furniture and there is no sneaking a big honking Kirby under furniture.

Could be a bad cord or cord reel, bad on-off switch, loose wire somewhere or worn brushes. I've seen all of these problems at one time or another. Sometimes a brush is just stuck from accumulated carbon dust. If the carbon brushes are oriented top and bottom ( 12 o'clock and 6 o'clock ) the...

Patriot and Aerus still do home demonstrations.

Found some images of our Kenmore 600. You can see I made a custom adapter to put a standard central vacuum style hard floor brush on the big diameter Kenmore wands. I made it from the swivel neck of another Kenmore power nozzle and the bottom of a bent up button lock wand cut off, glued and...

If the criteria includes vintage stuff then I would choose what I consider to be the best vacuum ever made by any company, the Lux 1R D820, shown here between my Electrolux ( USA ) Epic 8000 and a Royal Lux D795. Quieter and more powerful than either Miele I have and much better built.

I chose other. Among modern production vacuums I would choose the Kenmore 600 Series canister, specifically the purple 81614 version. I have one and it is the best canister vacuum Kenmore has ever made, and I have examples of pretty much all their bagged canisters going back to the 1940s.

And this is what the reference to Leon Santillan in the first verse of El Matador means https://www.songtell.com/los-fabulosos-cadillacs/manuel-santill-n-el-le-n-tumbao-salsa AI misses all of that. It will never understand us or the things we do.

Here are the English language lyrics to El Matador ( a matador because he waves a red cape of dissidence at the bull of the Pinochet regime ) https://genius.com/Los-fabulosos-cadillacs-matador-english-translation-lyrics And here is the AI version, missing all of the nuance and symbolism of the...

Hmm. I guess I care more about function than cosmetics. A black one cleans as well as a green one or red one.

No it isn't. I shake my head at the AI interpretation of a song by the Argentine band Los Fabulosos Cadillacs called "El Matador". The song is a tribute to the late Chilean dissident Victor Jara. He was killed by the Chilean security forces during the military coup led by General Augusto...

Eh, they did what they were advertised to do, were dirt simple, easy to repair and most proved to be durable under hard use by housekeeping and hospitality staff. David Oreck's main customers were old women who could not carry a heavy vacuum around and hospitality and housekeeping staff who had...

I'm a crappy photographer with an apparently lousy Canon camera and for reasons I do not understand images taken with my iPhone will not load on this site. When I try I receive a warning telling me they are the wrong format. If there is a way to change their format on my laptop I am clueless...