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Here's a "teaser" video, more photos & info to come...!
http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q045p9EvYo
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Here's a "teaser" video, more photos & info to come...!
http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q045p9EvYo
An Electrolux With a Very Rare Accessory...
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"And now," as Paul Harvey used to intone on his radio show, "Here's the rest of the story..." [Boy, does THAT ever date me!!]
I've known for many years the existence of extra-long Electrolux Model XXX and LX hoses. I've seen two of the LX hoses in "real life."
Back in the good old days when I was in elementary school there was a large wharf and seafood processing plant down on the water, along with a grocery-bait-general store. One day I was down there playing with a friend and I had to pee. There was a rest room in the back of the store. When I got in there and closed the rickety wooden door, all thoughts of peeing dissipated when I saw a Model E Electrolux sitting in a corner!
Of course I was fascinated by it since it was - and still is - my favorite Electrolux. There were no attachments there, just the machine. I knew the rest had to be there somewhere!
I prowled around the store until I came to one of those huge industrial deep-freezers, the horizontal ones that look like giant tombs! Well, what do you know ... draped across the top of the gigantic freezer was a blue and gray woven Electrolux hose! It was the same color and pattern as the LX & E hose, but it was far longer than normal-length Electrolux hoses, so long that both metal ends nearly touched the floor even though it was lying longways across that freezer!
I never saw another one like it until many years later when I visited a collector in Pennsylvania who had one in the same LX color & pattern. It was just thrown in a messy heap with a bunch of other parts and old hoses. "Ah, sweet mystery of life!" Too bad for me, he wasn't having any part of passing it on! Sad-face
Then just a few years ago, a retired Electrolux Man sent me three big cardboard boxes full of literature -- all kinds of stuff! Sales materials, promotional pamphlets, instruction booklets, prize brochures, trade-in price lists, photos etc etc etc. One of the papers was a price list for "parts and materials" for the Model XXX. Listed among the accessories was "Hose 15 ft. XII-XXX." Well knock me down with a dusting brush!! So there was an extra-long hose for the XXX as well! (I assumed "XII" was in reference to the later XII-A that had the new snap-in hose connector.)
Recently I posted my "Wish List" on Vacuumland. The list contains, among other odds and ends, 15-foot Electrolux woven hoses.
Lo and behold, I rec'd a message from a member and collector named Eric Skau of Long Island. We'd never met before this, as far as I can recall. He wrote, "...I may have the extra long Electrolux model XXX hose that is on your wish list. I bought the machine at an Estate sale and the hose seemed long...."
I replied to him with great elation and said I would *LOVE* to have the hose! So he sent it to me, asking only that I reimburse him for the shipping charge which of course I gladly did.
A couple of weeks later there was a box here for me from Eric. I opened it up and there it was ... before me for the very first time ever ... a 15-ft.-long Model XXX hose!!!
It's in pretty good cosmetic condition but OMG it leaks like a sieve -- there is NO suction at the handle end! But hey!! When was the last time any of us even saw one of these hoses?! Eric did suggest that I give it the liquid latex treatment but I'm afraid to do so and risk ruining it. Where would I ever find another one?! I just want it for display purposes anyway and certainly wouldn't ever use it for actual cleaning.
That night after it arrived, I filled the washing machine with warm water, detergent and a generous scoop of Oxy-Clean. I put the long hose in and let it soak overnight.
The next morning, the water in the washing machine was dark-brown and nearly opaque! That was one filthy hose!!
I let it soak in another tub of clean water with a dash of Mrs. Stewart's Laundry Bluing and then thoroughly rinsed it (inside and out) in the bathtub.
I took it outside and hung it out to dry - first vertically and then looped across our two clothes lines.
It looked so much nicer afterward!
An interesting point -- the handle and motor-end coupler date it back to the earliest XXX. I say this due to the handle style and the fact that the motor coupler has the Electrolux logo engraved into it. They stopped doing the engraving pretty early on; I've only seen it on the very oldest-style hoses. And the more tapered handle was also replaced early into the run of the XXX with the more cut-off style. (See photos.)
So, when I decided to do a photo shoot of the hose, I decided to use my earliest Model 30 (as it was called back then, rather than Model XXX) that Tom Gasko had sent to me many years ago, I think in 1991.
And here are those photos.
(btw if anyone's interested, I can do a rundown of the numerous small (and some not-so-small) differences between the earliest 1937 XXX and the last 1954 XXX.)
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"And now," as Paul Harvey used to intone on his radio show, "Here's the rest of the story..." [Boy, does THAT ever date me!!]
I've known for many years the existence of extra-long Electrolux Model XXX and LX hoses. I've seen two of the LX hoses in "real life."
Back in the good old days when I was in elementary school there was a large wharf and seafood processing plant down on the water, along with a grocery-bait-general store. One day I was down there playing with a friend and I had to pee. There was a rest room in the back of the store. When I got in there and closed the rickety wooden door, all thoughts of peeing dissipated when I saw a Model E Electrolux sitting in a corner!
Of course I was fascinated by it since it was - and still is - my favorite Electrolux. There were no attachments there, just the machine. I knew the rest had to be there somewhere!
I prowled around the store until I came to one of those huge industrial deep-freezers, the horizontal ones that look like giant tombs! Well, what do you know ... draped across the top of the gigantic freezer was a blue and gray woven Electrolux hose! It was the same color and pattern as the LX & E hose, but it was far longer than normal-length Electrolux hoses, so long that both metal ends nearly touched the floor even though it was lying longways across that freezer!
I never saw another one like it until many years later when I visited a collector in Pennsylvania who had one in the same LX color & pattern. It was just thrown in a messy heap with a bunch of other parts and old hoses. "Ah, sweet mystery of life!" Too bad for me, he wasn't having any part of passing it on! Sad-face
Then just a few years ago, a retired Electrolux Man sent me three big cardboard boxes full of literature -- all kinds of stuff! Sales materials, promotional pamphlets, instruction booklets, prize brochures, trade-in price lists, photos etc etc etc. One of the papers was a price list for "parts and materials" for the Model XXX. Listed among the accessories was "Hose 15 ft. XII-XXX." Well knock me down with a dusting brush!! So there was an extra-long hose for the XXX as well! (I assumed "XII" was in reference to the later XII-A that had the new snap-in hose connector.)
Recently I posted my "Wish List" on Vacuumland. The list contains, among other odds and ends, 15-foot Electrolux woven hoses.
Lo and behold, I rec'd a message from a member and collector named Eric Skau of Long Island. We'd never met before this, as far as I can recall. He wrote, "...I may have the extra long Electrolux model XXX hose that is on your wish list. I bought the machine at an Estate sale and the hose seemed long...."
I replied to him with great elation and said I would *LOVE* to have the hose! So he sent it to me, asking only that I reimburse him for the shipping charge which of course I gladly did.
A couple of weeks later there was a box here for me from Eric. I opened it up and there it was ... before me for the very first time ever ... a 15-ft.-long Model XXX hose!!!
It's in pretty good cosmetic condition but OMG it leaks like a sieve -- there is NO suction at the handle end! But hey!! When was the last time any of us even saw one of these hoses?! Eric did suggest that I give it the liquid latex treatment but I'm afraid to do so and risk ruining it. Where would I ever find another one?! I just want it for display purposes anyway and certainly wouldn't ever use it for actual cleaning.
That night after it arrived, I filled the washing machine with warm water, detergent and a generous scoop of Oxy-Clean. I put the long hose in and let it soak overnight.
The next morning, the water in the washing machine was dark-brown and nearly opaque! That was one filthy hose!!
I let it soak in another tub of clean water with a dash of Mrs. Stewart's Laundry Bluing and then thoroughly rinsed it (inside and out) in the bathtub.
I took it outside and hung it out to dry - first vertically and then looped across our two clothes lines.
It looked so much nicer afterward!
An interesting point -- the handle and motor-end coupler date it back to the earliest XXX. I say this due to the handle style and the fact that the motor coupler has the Electrolux logo engraved into it. They stopped doing the engraving pretty early on; I've only seen it on the very oldest-style hoses. And the more tapered handle was also replaced early into the run of the XXX with the more cut-off style. (See photos.)
So, when I decided to do a photo shoot of the hose, I decided to use my earliest Model 30 (as it was called back then, rather than Model XXX) that Tom Gasko had sent to me many years ago, I think in 1991.
And here are those photos.
(btw if anyone's interested, I can do a rundown of the numerous small (and some not-so-small) differences between the earliest 1937 XXX and the last 1954 XXX.)
Long hose turns your 'Lux vacuum into a central vacuum?Good for the stairs!
WONDERFUL! Simply Splendid! That long hose would be good to have in a Vinyl Version here at Casa Lux (Cant go copying you on names, now! i started calling my room Casa Lux in 2013, long before I knew of this site) to clean my stairs as im always afraid my vacuum will fall!
Simply Beautiful! Im honestly afraid to wash my woven hoses as the 2 Electric ones are PERFECTLY sealed and the straight suction ones have begun to fall apart
Tremendous!
Andy Rousonelos
Simply Beautiful! Im honestly afraid to wash my woven hoses as the 2 Electric ones are PERFECTLY sealed and the straight suction ones have begun to fall apart
Tremendous!
Andy Rousonelos
Congratulations
Congrats on getting one of your dream accessories! Thanks for sharing, I wouldn't even know about this hoses existence without you posting it! I wonder what the suction would be like at the hose end even if it was perfectly sealed? I imagine it would not be the greatest, especially with the earliest and less powerful XXX. Again, congratulations on the hose!
Congrats on getting one of your dream accessories! Thanks for sharing, I wouldn't even know about this hoses existence without you posting it! I wonder what the suction would be like at the hose end even if it was perfectly sealed? I imagine it would not be the greatest, especially with the earliest and less powerful XXX. Again, congratulations on the hose!
delaneymeegan
Well-known member
Congratulations ! It's always fun to find a rare part like this, and you've done a good job restoring it.
When ever I clean hoses, when done, I make sure one end is higher than the other so air will naturally flow through with convection. Placing the lower end over a forced air source like a heat vent or fan helps to dry it out, too.
When ever I clean hoses, when done, I make sure one end is higher than the other so air will naturally flow through with convection. Placing the lower end over a forced air source like a heat vent or fan helps to dry it out, too.
dysonman1
Well-known member
Congratulations Charles, I know you've looked for one of those extra long hoses for a long time. Glad to see the Model 30 from me, is still looking good after all these years. I remember where I found it and how excited I was that you were going to receive it.
vintagefox
Well-known member
Quite a snake of a hose you got there!
These 15ft hoses are pretty darn rare and fortunately you found one in pretty great condition!
These 15ft hoses are pretty darn rare and fortunately you found one in pretty great condition!
floor-a-matic
Well-known member
I do have one in vinyl here at Casa Electrolux (my house has been called Casa Lux since the 1980s) it reminds me of the hose I used for vacing the church I used to go to. They had a Super J
My family used to have the 15ft hose (I think it was a 1205-era?) but got thrown out yrs ago
Congrats on your super-rare find Charles (Electrolux137)
My family used to have the 15ft hose (I think it was a 1205-era?) but got thrown out yrs ago
Congrats on your super-rare find Charles (Electrolux137)
Casa Electrolux
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No big whoop ... you can have it. I'll use "La Maison Electrolux" unless someone has already staked a claim on it...
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No big whoop ... you can have it. I'll use "La Maison Electrolux" unless someone has already staked a claim on it...
floor-a-matic
Well-known member
Where can I find the turquoise 15ft hose like the one my parents had? I cant remember if it was non-electric or electrified; the hose was too worn & got thrown out (before my intrest in vacs began)
sitop
Well-known member
very cooool!
Charles,
I'm so glad that "I" was able to fill one of your wish list! It is an honor for me to give it to you! Charles, who he is, wonderful, was able to give me a Lewyt wand and a handle for my XXX that the loonnngg hose came with. We certainly had fun discussing the "long" John Holmes hose! Vacuumland ROCKS!!
Charles,
I'm so glad that "I" was able to fill one of your wish list! It is an honor for me to give it to you! Charles, who he is, wonderful, was able to give me a Lewyt wand and a handle for my XXX that the loonnngg hose came with. We certainly had fun discussing the "long" John Holmes hose! Vacuumland ROCKS!!
stricklybojack
Well-known member
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I suggest, to someone, Château Electrolux...more cozy sounding.
I suggest, to someone, Château Electrolux...more cozy sounding.
