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Ahhhhhhh.......NOW I UNDERSTAND!!!!

Thanks so much for these scans and photos - they explain the mystery to me very clearly.

There must be some very good gaskets around those air "holes" in order to prevent any leakage of air and reduced suction where they join the lower portion to the upper portion. I wonder why they did not just exhaust the air through the top of the motor housing....that would have been simpler solution, methinks.....hmmm....
 
Dometic and portholes

Doug,

I knew you had one and I was sure Volta was not the name - I just could not remember that it was Dometic.

Jamie, you have not quite answered Brian's question, and indeed nor could I until I recently had to make a (sort of bodged) repair on one of these. Brian you need to pause the video around 9.10 to get a better idea of how this works - there are indeed three air channels in the handle.

If you look at Dougs picture above (or even mine further up) you can see the chrome clip which holds it shut - the whole top is hinged across the rear which will allow it to open through 180 degrees. The bag is vertically mounted with the bag entry at the top. It looks for all the world like an ordinary cannister.

Air is drawn into the bag chamber via the hose from the brushroll through the central channel. This bends through 90 degress at the top of the bag chamber exiting into the bag. Air is drawn out of the bag chamber through the left hand channel, through the motor and out again through the right hand channel - you can see the remains of the exhaust grill at 9.17.

What is not shown in the demo is that at the bottom of each side of the handle are round "portholes" (for want of a better word) which engage with each side of the motor shroud shown in red in the demo. It is these which allow the handle to swivel up and down whilst maintaining suction. The pully for the brushroll belt is just behind the right hand front wheel.

How do I know? I recently got one of these for 99p (Say $1.00) which presumably had been dropped or maybe just misused and part of the porthole moulding on the right was damaged. It superglued the remaining parts together and although a bit wobbly still the cleaner works fine as the left hand port (suction) is still intact.

Hope this makes it a bit clearer

Al
 
Actually my model 503 is labelled Dometic-Volta

It's a nice little vac. I should use it more.

Here's my ancient video of it

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I actually have two of these cleaners!

<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">One, seen in the video link below, was made by AB Electrolux sometime around 1984 (please correct me if I'm wrong) for the American sewing machine maker Viking and was sold through their exclusive distributors.  Electrolux also made a line of canister/tank models for Viking as well, as I recall.  I had one in the early days of my collection, in fact: wish I had kept the silly thing!</span>


 


<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">As for my other machine, it's one of the later grey colored models ... a Z1045, to be exact.  I'll put a video link to it up in another post.</span>



 
Husqvarna

Hey Bill,

Happy New Year

It was a similar machine to the one shown in the link above that I mentioned repairing above - do you have tools for it as well?

Of course Husqvarna has long been an Electrolux brand and I recall an magazine ad here in the 1970s which actually had the (male) model dressed up as a viking. Although best known for sewing machines, we did have TOL Electrolux refrigeration products and I think ranges (cookers!) under that brand as well.

A good while back I think we had a discussion here about a Lux 345 cannister sold in the USA - I wonder coudl this have been one of the Viking cannisters you mention

Al
 
Sure is and you cant go wrong for 99p
It looks as if the furniture guard is missing off it but i am not too bothered about that i just wanted it.
 
Are you actually going to hand her 99P ? Ha ha.

Hopefully you won't have any problems with the transaction. The reason I say that is because a few times when I've won things for super low prices (E.G 99P) the seller has refused to sell it to me because they expected it to go higher.
 
I had actualy offered her £20 for a quick sale as i have no paitence and wanted it straight away but she wasnt sure how to add a buy it now price so i just said i would wait till the auction ended and got it for 99p
She probobaly wanted more who wouldnt but i think she is glad its going to a good home and she is sending it via a courier.
 
While we are on the subject of the 500 series I was just wondering if anyone had a spare of the mustard coloured crevice tool or flip over floor/rug tool that came with the Dometic. I took another picture of it to show what I have for parts (the hose, wand and brush were still in the box pictured behind the machine when I got it and I dont think they had ever been used)

Doug

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Doug

To the best of my knowledge this combination was never offered in the UK which came with white hose handle & tools Until the later version with completely different hose, wands & tools. The hose handle looks like that from the 345, so I suppose the tools would be the same. I have never seen either version of the flip over tool of thsi vintage in anything but white, although later versions (such as the basic one used on 303) were also in black, I think I have also seen it in really dark chocolate brown, but never in this colour. I may have a spare crevice tool in brown

Al
 
@vacbear58 ...

<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Hi Al,</span>


 


<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Happy New Year to you also!  Sorry but I don't have the tool kit for either of my machines.  I'm willing to bet that the machine you and I were discussing before was that very Viking cylinder!</span>
 
Hi Al:

Actually its a different colour than the 345. This set is kind of a mustard colour. It matches the bumper on the machine perfectly. I have the sales brochure for this one somewher - I'll scan it when I find it.
Doug
 
In the Early 80's my aunt and uncle in England sent me some misc catalogue pages of vacuums. I thought you might find them interesting too.

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For some reason the scans are showing up on the preview but not on the final upload and it wont let me edit so I guess I have to quit for now.

Doug
 
Goblin 666

Doug

Thanks for taking the time for scanning and posting the instructions and catalogue pages - very interesting indeed.

We would all like to see an example of the 666 - persoanlly I did not even know of the model's existance until I picked up a Goblin brochure a few years back. I am attaching a scan of that page

I have never seen one of these come up on ebay, although i have just bought something a bit similar, pictures hopefully coming soon.

The hose appears to be simular to the Hoover stretch hose (Hooverflex) that was used here for many years after it was dropped in N America. Some interesting snippets of info in your scans though. Interesting to see the 303 with that version of nozzle - I only associated it with the one shown with the 96 but in black.

Only ever saw an 87 with braided hose not that plastic one, which appears similar to that shown on the 170. By the way the 87/96 are the direct descendents of the Lux 48 as teh BOL model that you wanted copy of the manual cover.

The Lux 380/390 would have been their answer to the Hoover Sensortronic range although never with the PN that some of the Hoovers had. From some other information i have it appears that the bodies are not quite the same colour although they appear the same in teh scans.

Al

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