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Actually the ones that were made by Nilfisk, Triple S, Kent, or Powr-Flite were made by Electrolux AB and now Bissell in Mexico. The company who made Banks, Levax, Oreck, or Perfect were made by a Chinese manufacturer who also makes machines for the Bissell Big Green Commercial line. Sounds odd...

You can still get a brand new metal motor for your Sanitaire. There's a company that makes copycats of Sanitaires like the Bissell Big Green (coincidentally Sanitaire is also owned by Bissell now), they use metal motors that'd fit on your Sanitaire.

Paul, I agree with you on the Windsor Versamatic. I think they are one of if not the best commercial uprights ever made. I like the Lux style uprights, I even own a couple myself. But I favor my Kenmore/SEBO machines as they (and Lindhaus) pretty much perfected the Lux design.

It appears the sister site (automaticwasher.org), at least for now, remains just the way it is. However, as what Kenny pointed out, nothing stays the same. I still miss the old YouTube days like for example when you had the five star rating, I know VidLii exists for that matter but not many...

It's been a real pleasure Robert! And Alan, thanks for taking over and I'm curious if you own a vacuum collection yourself?

Forgot about Kirby That's a cool model too. I've also seen plenty of other vacuums with American flag stickers on their machines (and still do today) or at least on the boxes. I have a green Dirt Devil Vision that's not only made here but also has a three row brushroll where each strip is...

Still works fine Since the video, had some minor things done to it. Got a new sock hose cover, re-raveled the hose, replaced the hose switch and wiring harness, replaced the two prong cord, put a new brushroll on, always replacing belts, and upgraded the lightbulb to a LED since the...

As far as I know Tacony and Oreck are the only companies that actually sold "American" models which I thought was really cool.

"I think it just changes the way you clean." Nope, I'm not buying another cordless stick vac once my other one dies completely. I'd buy another broom and dust pan that'd certainly last for many years. And certainly nothing beats a corded hose vacuum for bare floors.

First four numbers indicates October of 2018.

Yes It's the daily driver.

My great aunt had one before, though it's outer bag bag got replaced at some point. When she passed, I wanted to take it home with me but for whatever reason someone already got rid of it.

When I empty out my central vac about twice a year since it's the only bagless vacuum I use, I use a trash bag to seal up the canister and dump everything in there. Then I seal up the bag and throw it outside in the garbage cans. I'd never dump my machines inside the house minus the cordless...

Listing has been sold Since that link won't be around for much longer, it's better to post pictures instead for the record. That was one of my mistakes when I posted a link off of eBay before, it was my actual first time posting here on VL 10 years ago. Anyways, that's one of if not the worst...

When I was working at a vacuum store, that's what I also did. An air compressor can also work as well. But for fully sanitizing one (depending on the brushroll), I'd use a pressure washer as that's what fully cleans the bristles. Dishwashers can work but not as good as the pressure washer.

Very interesting Other than the central vacs and wet dry units, I've never seen another full size machine from B&D besides this 1400W bagless canister which reminded me of a Panasonic but it wasn't made by them.

You'd probably get a kick out of this Mike. Here's a YouTube video of someone receiving a DrainVac Viper out of the box. Not only it had a defective Ametek motor but also the replacement motor is in fact a Ametek motor as well. Basically tells you that DrainVac is no longer using Domel motors at...

Interesting you had a British Dyson DC04.

Tyler's Dirt Devil is now listed on Ebay. https://www.ebay.com/itm/256919086573?itmmeta=01JTGSA0NX2SQ6DK8MPKN7ETSJ&hash=item3bd19225ed:g:~e8AAOSweIRoF-vD

I wouldn't mind owning the green bagged version if I had the space. I did had a blue one before but I sold it due to lack of space, however I'm after the blue Twin Chamber version. The one that I'd really love to find would be the black Turbopower 4500.