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    Kenmore canister with power-mate compact

    I put 116.20050202 and it find nothing. You can see the model number on my first post. It maybe doesn't work because is canadian model.
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    Kenmore High Desert Restoration Facility Contd 1

    Look nice. It's look the same vacuum as my Kenmore, but it have a different motor and it write 9 amp on yours, is it because you're model don't have the power-mate?
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    Thoughts on the Dyson DC14

    This is some examples of Dyson ad. Maybe it's have some Dyson which are sold at less price than those examples. http://www.kijiji.ca/v-vacuum/ottawa/dyson-dc17-animal-vacuum-with-attachments/1000582646?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true...
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    Thoughts on the Dyson DC14

    50$ for a used Dyson is cheap. Here, the used Dyson are sell at 200~300$ or more, I will never pay that.
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    Kenmore canister with power-mate compact

    Thanks The motor I have in spare, is not a two speed, but a variable speed with a controller on the hose. When I will go to my parent house, I will take picture of the motor and the controller. I tried my product number on sears parts direct to see the schematic and the part, but it don't find...
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    Kenmore canister with power-mate compact

    The wheel of the vacuum is in good condition, but the wheel had grind a line in the body of the vacuum and it stock there. I will glue a plastic piece where the wheel has scrape the body of the vacuum. Thanks for the advice with the lamb motor, but if the motor die, I have a Kenmore motor dual...
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    Kenmore canister with power-mate compact

    This is my last buy. I bought it for 20$. It was dirty and I clean it. It don't have a duster brush tool and the bare floor tool, but there is no place on the vacuum to place it. Is that the Power-mate compact was made for bare floor too? I put some washer to help the rear wheel to turn but it...
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    Kenmore High Desert Restoration Facility Contd 2

    Good job! Don't let the avocado bomber die.
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    1600$ for a Kirby and a Hoover

    Will you pay 1600$ for a Hoover celebrity and a Kirby dualsanitronic 80? It looks like a really good condition, but I find that pricey. http://www.kijiji.ca/v-vacuum/ottawa/hoover-celebrity-qs-quiet-series-kirby-vacuum-cleaner-80-sanitro/1004164579?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true
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    My first Hoover, but I need some help

    I put back the zipper slider back on, but it damaged (it miss one tooth). I will maybe follow your suggestion and ask my mother to sew another zipper or I will buy another bag because the bag start to have some sign of age.
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    Today's Find!!!

    Nice vacuum, a little cleaning and it will be beautiful.
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    Hinge dilemma

    Gr8DaneDad have a good idea, use some fabric like leather under the old hinge. It would be discreet. The CA hinge look a good idea too.
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    My first Hoover, but I need some help

    I found how to remove the bearing, it was simple, just push it with a big nail and a hammer. I will order two bearing, two bristle, some bags and two belt. I put some rusted metal on appel cider vinegar, you can see the result on the picture. Now the zip of the bag is broken :(, I don't know...
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    Meile's with Lamb motors

    It's maybe not the more powerfull but it have a good power for a peripheral dischage (It what I think). I wanted to put the original performance in my Shop-Vac 950A and it was the same spec and size.
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    Meile's with Lamb motors

    The number model is 116471-00, is assembled in Mexico.
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    Meile's with Lamb motors

    I just bought a 2 stage lamb motor to replace the motor in my Shop-Vac, will be a good motor?
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    Uprights Or Canisters?

    DesertTortoise, I don't have a picture of the vacuum :(, my mother was more interrested by it's boy than the vacuum. This vacuum no longer exist :(, 20 years later, the belt of the power nozzle break and after the motor run out, it was the bearing. The back of the vacuum under the motor was in...
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    Uprights Or Canisters?

    Canister I prefer canister because it more versatile and it easier to clean under furniture or behind it. The majority of the floor at my home, is hard floor. Maybe the reason I prefer canister, is when I was young, my mother had a Kenmore canister and I loved to play with this vacuum. You can...
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    My first Hoover, but I need some help

    I bought a Hoover Convertible U4169. I had start to clean it, but the bearing of the brushroll are bad and I have to change it. I down know how to remove it. I found the number of the replacement part: 43267002.
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    Old metrovac

    This is the pictures of the motor, I didn't remove it because it was clean. It a normal vacuum motor. I don't know if it normal for this vacuum, but the housing get really hot.
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