WOW,,so THATS what a Bee Vac looks like! I dont think ive ever seen one before. How cool.
In the early 1970s, an Aunt had that exact same DAM. She traded in an older Convertible for it, because it matched her lime green stove, refrig, and dishwasher. She kept the DAM parked next to her fridge.
She had that real LONG shag carpet in her house,,in white, of course,,had to be raked, vacuumed, and then raked again. Was beautiful as long as no one walked across it!
I always wondered if that Hoover did a very good job at getting to the very bottom base nap of that carpet, being that it was soooo incredibly thick.
I would have to say it did, because her carpet always looked beautiful.
Her DAM did develope the wobbly handle tho and she had kitchen carpet that she wasnt careful about vacuuming up spilled food ,,so the DAM didnt last too long. I remember the little hose from the brush roll to the bag was always getting clogged. Of course she should have been more careful with it.
She then bought a second hand Electrolux 1205 with the blue PN1. I doubt the PN 1 did as good a job at beating and sweeping that long thick shag carpet as the DAM had done, but it was better than nothing.
She probablly should have kept that original convertible!
That 1205 did something i have never seen before or since.
On the blue PN hose,,Just behind the top little PN double socket at the top of the hose handle,,a dark spot started to form on the hose itself,,about the size of a large pin head, which was a small hole after awhile.
One day FIRE shot out of the the hole, and the PN and 1205 were still running.
She was smart enough to unplug the vac from the wall outlet, and not use the vac again until the Electrolux man brought a new hose.
This was about 1976, so the new hose was the yellow and blue that would have been for a Golden J/ Super J.
I know that 1205 lasted at least another 34 years or more. It was in her garage when she passed away in 2010, for use in cleaning out the car and garage,,still working fine,,the motor was a little tired by then, and the yellow hose was leaky as a sieve, but the ol Lux still had power.
