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crevicetool
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Good for you...
You'll have a lot of fun with that machine. I've got two, One being rebuilt, and one unfortunatly having to supply parts for the other, but it was in really bad shape and I found it in the trash quite a few years ago. When you take yours apart (if you do) release that bag spring before you do anything else!!! That sucker can do some finger damage if you are not careful...The LX is my favorite Lux. Rick
You'll have a lot of fun with that machine. I've got two, One being rebuilt, and one unfortunatly having to supply parts for the other, but it was in really bad shape and I found it in the trash quite a few years ago. When you take yours apart (if you do) release that bag spring before you do anything else!!! That sucker can do some finger damage if you are not careful...The LX is my favorite Lux. Rick
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Neat LX. You will have bags flying across the room before you know it! I'll bet that it will cost more than that just to ship. I got my model S and F on Ebay and both of the sellers lost money with the shipping. It would have been cheaper for them to give them to charity! Oh well the post office made lots of money!
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Very nice --
that's the early version of the LX with the lovely red and yellow logo in the side rails. Later they got cheaper and just had a single piece of embossed aluminum. Your LX will clean up very nicely!! Did you get any attachments for it?
Does it have the bag ejector control dial? If so, it was retrofitted later. The early LX did not have that yet. Check out what I wrote about this at the link below -- then check inside your cord compartment to see if an "Attic and Basement Key" is still tucked in there! I've actually found a couple of LXs with them in there. But finding them is rare, and it's also hard to find them without the retrofitted ejector control.
I found an early LX that has the earliest version of the ejector. Rather than the 7-position ribbed plastic knob that they all had from the LX through the G, it has a metal knob inset into a metal flange! And it only has four positions. I'll snap a photo of it and add it here, to see if anyone else has seen one like this. This is the only one I have ever seen.
The LX is truly a wonderful machine -- beautiful, built like a tank, quiet (especially if it still has the rear filter), and there were so many interesting variations of it!
http://www.137.com/lux/luxlxs.html
that's the early version of the LX with the lovely red and yellow logo in the side rails. Later they got cheaper and just had a single piece of embossed aluminum. Your LX will clean up very nicely!! Did you get any attachments for it?
Does it have the bag ejector control dial? If so, it was retrofitted later. The early LX did not have that yet. Check out what I wrote about this at the link below -- then check inside your cord compartment to see if an "Attic and Basement Key" is still tucked in there! I've actually found a couple of LXs with them in there. But finding them is rare, and it's also hard to find them without the retrofitted ejector control.
I found an early LX that has the earliest version of the ejector. Rather than the 7-position ribbed plastic knob that they all had from the LX through the G, it has a metal knob inset into a metal flange! And it only has four positions. I'll snap a photo of it and add it here, to see if anyone else has seen one like this. This is the only one I have ever seen.
The LX is truly a wonderful machine -- beautiful, built like a tank, quiet (especially if it still has the rear filter), and there were so many interesting variations of it!
http://www.137.com/lux/luxlxs.html
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OH
In reading through my own LX page, I realized I made a couple of boo-boos above. Write it off to brain damage! First, you can see a photo of the metal ejector control on the referenced site. It's on a machine labeled as LXI which, as I found out later, it actually is not. It has all the "retrofitting" of the LXI -- the swing-open cord winder, the rear wheels with axle, and the front swivel caster. BUT it has the ornate side panels which clearly makes it an earlier machine, AND it has the early type of ejector control.
Other boo-boos, I said the plastic knob had 7 settings when there were 6, and that the metal knob had four when there are also 6.
In reading through my own LX page, I realized I made a couple of boo-boos above. Write it off to brain damage! First, you can see a photo of the metal ejector control on the referenced site. It's on a machine labeled as LXI which, as I found out later, it actually is not. It has all the "retrofitting" of the LXI -- the swing-open cord winder, the rear wheels with axle, and the front swivel caster. BUT it has the ornate side panels which clearly makes it an earlier machine, AND it has the early type of ejector control.
Other boo-boos, I said the plastic knob had 7 settings when there were 6, and that the metal knob had four when there are also 6.
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I agree the LXI
is not as lovely as the early one but since it's such a scarce model, it does have a great deal of appeal to me. I'll never forget the first time I found one - in a thrift shop. When I first spotted it, I thought someone had grafted the rear-end of a Model E onto it until I looked closer and realized it was too integrated a style and design for that. It finally occurred to me that this was a version of the LX that I had never seen before. I began researching it and found out that, indeed, it was such a special version that it was accorded its own model designation!
is not as lovely as the early one but since it's such a scarce model, it does have a great deal of appeal to me. I'll never forget the first time I found one - in a thrift shop. When I first spotted it, I thought someone had grafted the rear-end of a Model E onto it until I looked closer and realized it was too integrated a style and design for that. It finally occurred to me that this was a version of the LX that I had never seen before. I began researching it and found out that, indeed, it was such a special version that it was accorded its own model designation!
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THE KEY
Oh how exciting!! Those are quite hard to find ---- HANG ON to it and don't lose it!!! Probably the safest place to keep it will be in the cord compartment where you found it. I'd love it if you would post some photos of it.
No, if the machine has the key it would not have the ejection control knob. But it's easy enough to find out -- look at the undeside of the machine toward the front, just where the cover is attached. If there is a knob, that's where it will be.
Oh how exciting!! Those are quite hard to find ---- HANG ON to it and don't lose it!!! Probably the safest place to keep it will be in the cord compartment where you found it. I'd love it if you would post some photos of it.
No, if the machine has the key it would not have the ejection control knob. But it's easy enough to find out -- look at the undeside of the machine toward the front, just where the cover is attached. If there is a knob, that's where it will be.
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I just looked at your photos again, and saw that you do have a photo of the bottom. No, it does not have the ejector control, so you really do have one of the earliest of the earliest LXs there, and in unaltered condition! Quite a find!!
I just looked at your photos again, and saw that you do have a photo of the bottom. No, it does not have the ejector control, so you really do have one of the earliest of the earliest LXs there, and in unaltered condition! Quite a find!!
THE BAG EJECTOR WAS NOT WORKING WHEN I GOT IT THE ROD WAS BENT SO IT WAS JAMED I TOOK IT APART AND BENT IT BACK IN TO SHAPE AND NOW IT WORKS THE ONE THING IS WHEN I VACUUM THE WOOD FLOORS IN MY HOUSE THE BAG LIKES TO EJECT ALOT BUT THATS ALL PART OF THE FUN LOL
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You should also
lightly lubricate the ejector rod with light-weight machine grease -- just a very light coating to 'slicken' the rod so when the ejector arm travels down it, it'll have a smooth -- and FAST -- journey!!
lightly lubricate the ejector rod with light-weight machine grease -- just a very light coating to 'slicken' the rod so when the ejector arm travels down it, it'll have a smooth -- and FAST -- journey!!
crevicetool
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And when its all done...
It will look like this...Just finished 3-30-07. I got it on Ebay in January.
It will look like this...Just finished 3-30-07. I got it on Ebay in January.
