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Thanks les, I was wondering if the older tristars were compatible with the patriot. I might be able to find a good price on an older tristar and then buy the patriot canister. The patriot canister by itself shows up quite a bit on ebay and for a good price, but i didnt have a compatible hose...

reddit yeah, that was me, but i didnt get very much helpful info at all on that thread.

the hose/wands that i have are different than the patriot/airstorms though i think.

Dysonman1 Yeah, honestly, if the motors on my current vacs are easily replaced, it would seem that i could replace 2 or maybe even 3 motors for the cost of buying an all new setup!! I might see if theres a youtube video of it. If there's no special tools required, i bet i could do it!!

Yeah, i had just bought a bunch of packs of kirby hepa bags already so i just used those. It was 9 bags incl shipping $10 total, and i bought 2 sets, so i already had 18 bags. But thanks for the link on the vac bags, i couldnt find them when i tried, which is why i just cut up one of the kirby...

Yeah, I've always used a paper bag with it, but when i got my new kirby sentria 2, it came with the white hepa bags instead of the paper bags i'd always used with my kirby's, and so i cut one of the bags and stuck it in the cloth bag of the tristar, and just pulled the edges of the hepa bag over...

Maybe the previous owner had been hard on it. I always dumped the contents of the bag in the trash after each use, so the bag was always empty with each use. But my exl's have so far been great. But now they're so old. I really dont want to buy others that are just as old as mine. I would really...

So, I've been using a tristar exl vacuum 3-7 days a week for like 20 years. Used to use it exclusively, but in the last 10 years also use a kirby. I have 7 cats and a dog, all indoor only. My house is 3000 sq ft. All carpeted. Upstairs/downstairs. Recently my powerhead broke on one of my...