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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">Can U make a 10ft long electrified hose for a Electrolux 1205, Epic 6500 or Ambassador?  It sure looks difficult making a new hose with molded ends</span>
 
I recently acquired a beige 4.1 with the two speed motor just like the one depicted above I am about to embark on refurbishing. It arrived filthy with cracked and decayed hose and no wheels (WTH, did the owner drag it on it's belly or carry it by the handle everywhere?). This will be my third vac of this series. I like them a lot.

If Davinator has the patience I am going to embark on learning the dark arts of making up new Kenmore hoses using central vac hose stock and the original Kenmore hose ends.
 
Alexb1186, those early 5055 bagged 24991 canisters, like most Kenmore canister vacuums from at least 1971 forward are Matsushita products made in the US at one of the many US plants operated by Matsushita Electric Corporation of America. Matsushita began manufacturing consumer electronics and electrical industrial goods in the US in 1961.

I want you to compare that 24991 canister as you call it with a Panasonic MC-V9626. Here is a diagram of the Panasonic version that you claim is "100% Whirlpool".

http://www.hescoinc.com/schematics/panasonic/p_v9626.pdf

Here is another version of that vac you ought to recognize, the MC-V9634

http://www.hescoinc.com/schematics/panasonic/p_v9634.pdf

And this next vac, the Panasonic MC-V9628 is recognizable as a member of the Kenmore Whispertone series.

http://www.hescoinc.com/schematics/panasonic/p_v9628.pdf

Same vacuums, probably from the same assembly lines in the US, just different names on them. Production was moved from the US to Mexico sometime early in the production of the Whispertone series. I have both "Made in the USA" and Mexican made versions of the Whispertone series. The power nozzle is still in production today in Mexico, mostly unchanged, and sold for use with central vacuum systems under various names such as Hayden Delux, Nutone and Centec.

I have a letter directly from Sears where I posed to them the question of who manufactured my earliest Kemore canisters, starting with my 1971 vintage 2.7 model number 116.29971 . You can look that model number up on Sears Parts Direct and see for yourself what the vacuum is. It's a big heavy steel thing with a plastic lid. In Sears reply they state that vac is a Matsushita product, as are all of my many Kenmore canister vacs save one example made by Ryobi. I believe you have to go back to the 1960's to find Kenmore vacuums manufactured by Whirlpool.

I can post my question to Sears and their reply if you require. I am not inclined to argue with Sears position on this subject.
 
I also can't get over what Sears was asking for those vacuums back in 1985 or thereabouts. $549 for a vacuum back then was a huge amount of money for a family to spend.

For grins I inflated that number to 2014 constant year dollars using the DoD Inflation tool (I use this tool at work routinely and is available on line to anyone). The constant dollar inflation index for converting 1985 dollars to 2014 dollars is 0.5379. The calculation is to divide $549 by the index. The result is $1020.64. Kenmores of that era were relatively that expensive. Today their top of the line canister vacuum retails for $450 and usually sells for a lot less than that.

Sears sold a premium vacuum back then but charged a premium price. It is surprising they moved as much merchandise as they did at those kinds of prices. Today a thousand dollar vacuum is a niche product.
 

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