Electrolux rebuilt (prior to Godfrey’s)

[auslux708090d2d]

I thought it only fitting to post this as per my previous Electrolux post, this is probably to me my rare one off Electrolux, only adopted to my collection recently and for very little outlay, I believe Electrolux originally rebuilt their own vacuum cleaners prior to Godfrey’s doing such and I remember “ the friendly Electrolux salesman “ talking about the recycle of early vacuums and how Electrolux stands by their products for life, this is late 1980s and the sturdy construction enabled another generation of owners to keep their past products alive, basically everything inside and out was replaced rewired and all tools renewed too, I like the fabric finish and it operates with quality as per original design which would have been aqua or green, unfortunately some paint hasn’t survived the use but overall decades later it is very durable!!

 

[ddk848]

That's cool! Lucky that the handle has survived on that one too, they were notoriously weak on that model. The 300 series and earlier vacs are designed to be repaired, everything is easily dismantled, the earlier models also had replaceable motor bearings too iirc.

 

[cheesewonton]

Very cool ! Love the tweedy fabric on it. The opposite of the normal Electrolux staid soberness.

I have some Luxes from the D720 through D745 series that came from Japan. Those can be really difficult to work on. The plastic upper body is riveted to the steel main body and a couple of those rivets are darned hard to drill through ! I also pucker drilling right above a plastic bag chamber but the upper body plastic was broken in several places on a D725 so drilling and riveting was the only way to replace the upper body. Are these riveted too? What was Electrolux thinking?

You're lucky living in a 240 volt country. You can still get replacement motors with the six fins and spring post on the brush holder to fit these. Nobody makes a 100-127 volt motor in that configuration and the motors that are in them can't be disassembled.