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Kyle, I've worked on an enormous number of Model B Rexairs. I started in the business working for the Denver Rexair distributor, the late Harold Mench (Mr. and Mrs. Mench worked for Rexair, starting in 1937. He was with Rexair until he died in 1976, and she kept the business going a few more...

Those attachments have often been confused with Filtex, but having looked at both, side by side, they are not the same, though similar in design. The Compact attachments were not shiny, as shown on the owner's manual in VOD, but a matching turquoise wrinkle finish, as on the Compact itself. I...

I'm looking forward to doing the Bison presentation in Omaha later this year (I just typed "next year" and realized how time flies!) Fred and Charlie keep telling everyone how I'm going to do a demonstration of the machine. I may get a little stage fright here. It's been over 30 years, and...

Lewyts did use Lamb motors. A modern Lamb motor would be more powerful, but is the same dimensions and will interchange.

Sounds like the armature has shorted. Replace it and you should be OK.

Didn't we always suspect Mr. Oreck of being a slimeball?

Guys, ESSCO does have at least some, if not all, parts for these Eureka/Electroluxes. But you have to ask. They're not in the catalog. And, as for buying an Aerus, Aerus no longer does their own manufacturing. They have contracted Eureka to build their machines (the same good machines as before)...

Let me tell you my best Concept story. About 20 yrs. ago I had a Concept come into my shop for repairs. The bag wouldn't inflate, so I knew it had a clog somewhere. I sold the customer on the idea of having me do a full service on the machine. When I got it apart I took the metal fan cover off...

Birtman Electric, whose own brand was Bee-Vac, indeed made these cleaners. Birtman was taken over in what today is called a hostile takeover, by whirlpool, at Sears' behest (Whirlpool already made the Kenmore major appliances for Sears) in 1956. Whirlpool later sold the floor care division to...

Those are some beautiful Kirbys. To me, Kirbys after the Dual 80 have no interest as a collectible. And, as a vac shop owner, I don't sell anything older than the later Heritage II with the cut-down nozzle - customers simply have no interest in buying a cleaner that old. So those in between...

Interesting looking machine. Of course we had nothing like this in the US. Reminds me a little of the Thermax, but not nearly as bulky. Thermax started out as a hot water extraction carpet cleaner (they invented the process), and a very good one. But then they decided they could fill the...

Most of my old vacs fit in this category <G>! As far as dates stamped on the bottom of old vacuums, particularly Hoovers, these are usually misleading, as repair shops, presumably Authorized Hoover Service facilities would use a rubber stamp to stamp the date they worked on a machine. It took me...

I had the opportunity yesterday, for the first time, to do a repair on an Electrolux Aptitude. This is the Electrolux made by European Electrolux and sold in Sears, Lowe's, etc. It is their upright. My observation: What a piece of junk! I don't recall working on anything with such a cheap flimsy...

The Sanitaires mentioned in an earlier post will clean the best. The 634 has a smaller motor, and is designed for weight. I sell a lot of them to people who think they want an Oreck. The 647 (as well as 670 and 677) have the big motor, the same as the commercial machines, and clean even better...

AB Electrolux (the Swedish company, also former parent to US Electrolux) bought Eureka in 1974. Eurekas have been called Electrolux, and the company has called itself Electrolux, everywhere in the world except the US and Canada since the US operation split off. When Joe Urso et al purchased...

Time was when the Hoover was the best and the most expensive vacuum you could buy. My all-time favorite is the 150. In 1936 it sold for $89.50 (almost $1,300.00 in today's dollars, according to a Federal Reserve Bank website on which you can calculate inflation) Tied for second place at $84.50...

I have owned vacuum cleaner stores for 36 years, and worked in the business as a kid before that. I have refined my position on the Oreck. I used to dismiss it as a piece of sh*t. I still don't like it any better than before, but have come to the realization that it is the outrageous price they...

Very nice machine! A lot of you know I call this machine the "Aggravation" instead of "Innovation." Not that it isn't a decent machine, but what a royal PAIN IN The A** to work on. My hat's off to you for the beautiful job you did on it. It also always seemed to me that the Innovation never...

Fred, That's a really nice Eureka! And since Hoover has abandoned that style of machine, you don't have to take any abuse from anyone <G> for its not being a Hoover. And for ordinary customers (not collectors) it's nice to know that that same machine continues as part of the blue (household)...

Interesting comment on the Rainbow Power Nozzle being poor. That has not been my experience. Please bear in mind that while I sell some new Rainbows in my capacity as an Authorized Rainbow Service Center, that I operate a full line vacuum store selling other quality products as well...