All your latest pictures are fascinating. I like the owner's manual recreations. And now I have to find at least one of those floor polishers for mine.
Deconstructing an LX
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aeoliandave
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You are so very welcome, Charles.
T'was your website that inspired me to go for it. It would be an arduous but worthy project to recreate the entire LX Owner's manual in photos, since it is otherwise entirely illustrated with line drawings. It wouldn't be any problem getting a gal pal to dress the part and I couldplay the Dad. Hector and Felix would substitute for the children and pets.
The Polisher lineup was particularly just for you! And of course I'll be looking for the chrome one you have the many decades ahead, I'm sure.
I adore all my vacuums, they've been chosen with care for some overall or small design/engineering feature and I derive great pleasure from manhandleing all the parts as I autopsy and recusitate any vacuum that comes my way. In the course of examination when you have several of the same model you notice the tiny details that differentiate and that leads to asking "Who, What, Where, Why and How". The answers and suppositions are easily come by from this fine group of enthusiasts. All we have to do is post and ask.
As I say, I luv all my vacuum machines but Electrolux holds a special place, in that models are quite different from country to country, and all were manufactured to the highest standards with the finest materials. Even the 70s machines used quality plastics to advantage but then as we all lament - globalization put an end to Things Made To Last A Lifetime.
So, another teeny weeny thing I noticed that supports your observation of the early bag ejection fix Attic & Basement Key on introduction of the LX...Pages 18 & 19 layout of the 1952 manual clearly shows proof of the hasty insertion of the Attic and Basement Key explanation into the camera-ready Manual pages. The body text is smaller and the red word KEY is in enough of a different script typeface (fatter, less fluid) to that throughout the manual that it must have been squeezed in at the last moment by a different hand. Does a Manual exist without this insertion? Well, mine also came with the later slip-in loose page that explains the use of the use of the later developed Control Dial.
Had to scan the manual in overlapping single pages. As soon as I can merge those 52 pages in ArcSoft Panorama maker I'll post the Manual in it's entirety.
How's that for obsessive. LOL
Btw, Webmaster Fred, what's the best way to get these manuals on to the Manuals tab on the opening page? There's no user upload button...
Dave
T'was your website that inspired me to go for it. It would be an arduous but worthy project to recreate the entire LX Owner's manual in photos, since it is otherwise entirely illustrated with line drawings. It wouldn't be any problem getting a gal pal to dress the part and I couldplay the Dad. Hector and Felix would substitute for the children and pets.
The Polisher lineup was particularly just for you! And of course I'll be looking for the chrome one you have the many decades ahead, I'm sure.
I adore all my vacuums, they've been chosen with care for some overall or small design/engineering feature and I derive great pleasure from manhandleing all the parts as I autopsy and recusitate any vacuum that comes my way. In the course of examination when you have several of the same model you notice the tiny details that differentiate and that leads to asking "Who, What, Where, Why and How". The answers and suppositions are easily come by from this fine group of enthusiasts. All we have to do is post and ask.
As I say, I luv all my vacuum machines but Electrolux holds a special place, in that models are quite different from country to country, and all were manufactured to the highest standards with the finest materials. Even the 70s machines used quality plastics to advantage but then as we all lament - globalization put an end to Things Made To Last A Lifetime.
So, another teeny weeny thing I noticed that supports your observation of the early bag ejection fix Attic & Basement Key on introduction of the LX...Pages 18 & 19 layout of the 1952 manual clearly shows proof of the hasty insertion of the Attic and Basement Key explanation into the camera-ready Manual pages. The body text is smaller and the red word KEY is in enough of a different script typeface (fatter, less fluid) to that throughout the manual that it must have been squeezed in at the last moment by a different hand. Does a Manual exist without this insertion? Well, mine also came with the later slip-in loose page that explains the use of the use of the later developed Control Dial.
Had to scan the manual in overlapping single pages. As soon as I can merge those 52 pages in ArcSoft Panorama maker I'll post the Manual in it's entirety.
How's that for obsessive. LOL
Btw, Webmaster Fred, what's the best way to get these manuals on to the Manuals tab on the opening page? There's no user upload button...
Dave
aeoliandave
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How to Adjust to YOUR needs...
Notice the return to the fluid script 'key' word.
Obviously it was decided to not reprint the entire manual for new sales at this point. If you later got this improvment fitted to your early LX you'd get this insert from the Serviceman.
Notice the return to the fluid script 'key' word.
Obviously it was decided to not reprint the entire manual for new sales at this point. If you later got this improvment fitted to your early LX you'd get this insert from the Serviceman.
hoovercelebrity
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Not to 'hijack' or lower the aesthetically pleasing visual quality of this thread... but all this talk about LXs gave me the itch to use mine...
...To vacuum out the cars.
She's had a rough life... I figured that restoring her might just make it all the more painful--so I'm letting it go.
(Plus it doesn't have the Red/Yellow nameplate)
Ready to go to work...
...To vacuum out the cars.
She's had a rough life... I figured that restoring her might just make it all the more painful--so I'm letting it go.
(Plus it doesn't have the Red/Yellow nameplate)
Ready to go to work...
hoovercelebrity
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Closer-up...
Yes, that's a Kirby cord.
Yes, that's a Kirby cord.
aeoliandave
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She's a diamond in the rough, Fred and simply lovely as
And like so many Stars of the Golden Years aka Doris Day, she may prefer to shy away from the spotlight and pass her remaining years in dignity and grace.
On the other hand, like Apple Annie, there's always the chance that someone will give her a bath and pop a glttering tiara on her head for that once in a lifetime reunion with her sisters and brothers from the old days.
Although they may all be born/bourne from the same factory, a few will always be destined for greatness while most simply and plainly toil in the trenches so the Exalted Beauty Queen can live in a world of Glamourous Leisure and 'admire ME' Repose.
Seriously tho, I too use one of the LXs with a real long hose like that for the cellar & outside spring cleaning & getting to all the nooks & crannies of the car & boat without hauling the canister after me. And ya don't have to be concerned about bashing up the original tools when you have a work-a-day set that loves to suck up concrete chips & gravel & sand (along with insects, small children, Gas/Electrical supply marketers or bible thumping door-to-door agents and other annoying pests).
At the same time, it gives the passing springtime neighbors a nostalgic treat and an excuse to get to know ya sans the gloves, earmuffs, scarves, hats, bulky coats and flying snow plumes.
And like so many Stars of the Golden Years aka Doris Day, she may prefer to shy away from the spotlight and pass her remaining years in dignity and grace.
On the other hand, like Apple Annie, there's always the chance that someone will give her a bath and pop a glttering tiara on her head for that once in a lifetime reunion with her sisters and brothers from the old days.
Although they may all be born/bourne from the same factory, a few will always be destined for greatness while most simply and plainly toil in the trenches so the Exalted Beauty Queen can live in a world of Glamourous Leisure and 'admire ME' Repose.
Seriously tho, I too use one of the LXs with a real long hose like that for the cellar & outside spring cleaning & getting to all the nooks & crannies of the car & boat without hauling the canister after me. And ya don't have to be concerned about bashing up the original tools when you have a work-a-day set that loves to suck up concrete chips & gravel & sand (along with insects, small children, Gas/Electrical supply marketers or bible thumping door-to-door agents and other annoying pests).
At the same time, it gives the passing springtime neighbors a nostalgic treat and an excuse to get to know ya sans the gloves, earmuffs, scarves, hats, bulky coats and flying snow plumes.
charles~richard
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arh1953:
=-> And now I have to find at least one of those floor polishers for mine. <-=
SEE LINK. Yes, this one already closed. But polishers come up fairly often; you just have to look for them. You can usually get them for much less than what this one went for. (Seller claimed it was "new in the box" but I am skeptical.)
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=190205025564&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=009
=-> And now I have to find at least one of those floor polishers for mine. <-=
SEE LINK. Yes, this one already closed. But polishers come up fairly often; you just have to look for them. You can usually get them for much less than what this one went for. (Seller claimed it was "new in the box" but I am skeptical.)
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=190205025564&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=009
Thanks Charles, I saw that once, I'm going to try my local luck first before I try eBay. I don't hold much faith in them at the moment.
