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The hose Here's the troublesome hose and pistol grip...grrr!!!

Power Nozzle Here the PN6 disassembled, waiting for a new brush roll

I regularly check the local thrift shops. So few actually ever have vacuums, but hit a good one yesterday. Found an Electrolux Ambassador for only $12.00! Of course, the bag was jammed and the power nozzle wasn't working, but....worth the $12.00 just to tinker. Brought it home; new bag =...

Thanks... Awesome; thanks for the advice. I will just wipe up the little bit of dust when I'm finished. Small price to pay I think for being able to see all the junk it's picking up and not having to buy bags.

Recently acquired a Classic III in mint condition with all original parts, save the brushroll. All I had to do was empty the nearly full shakeout bag, wash it, and put it back together, voila! Wonderful daily driver vac for my business. I like the convenience of not having to buy paper bags...

>Ben This is a later model Tradition; the speed switch is below the intake and there is no suction relief on the rug nozzle.

>Kirby Neophyte You can get a replacement bag for the Classic; but you'd need to have a zipper installed. Any seamstress with a heavy duty sewing machine could do it. Then you could use the method I used with the same parts. You would just need to acquire a Tradition emptor then detach the...

Adapter... Here's where the HD1 adapter goes into the emptor. You can see the bottom screw I drilled a hole in the emptor for. The fit was perfect.

Fill tube... ...and G4 Adapter

New Hepa Bag All pretty and clean

Hello everyone; new to posting but I've been lurking for some time. I'll start out by saying, I've been a Kirby lover my whole life. My Mom acquired my Great Grandparent's Kirby Sanitronic VII when I was about 8 years old and it was love at first sight! I've been a Kirby fan ever since...

Awesome! So cool; my grandmother had one of these when I was a kid in the early 80's, except hers was bright green. I used to always ask if I could help her vacuum when I was there. This brought back so many memories! Thanks for posting!