Filter Queen Parts Haul. Does anybody else buy parts when they find them before needed?

[centralsweeper63]

It sounds pretty cool.

 

[huskyvacs]

Of course! I know what parts are hard to find and buy them as soon as they pop up on ebay.

I do that too when I know I'll need parts for a vacuum I havent even started restoration on yet. Because it likely wont exist anymore by the time I start! I was jumping up and down when someone listed a full set of Modern Hygiene canister attachments on eBay last year AND they were the correct ones for the model I had. I grabbed them very fast. All I need to find now is a hose (probably impossible) and I'll have a complete machine.

 

[huskyvacs]

That would be great! Imagine a website where everyone puts their scrap machines on and people can cheaply buy parts from them.

Vacuumland could do it, I bet. I would presume there might be some kind of way to add a Marketplace tab that creates a gallery section for each user, and you can just post a pic with what you have and then add your text below for item/price/etc. It would be kind of boojie but it would work. Then you can just PM people for payment.

 

[centralsweeper63]

That would be cool. I

 

[thevacomaticiec]

I do that too when I know I'll need parts for a vacuum I havent even started restoration on yet. Because it likely wont exist anymore by the time I start! I was jumping up and down when someone listed a full set of Modern Hygiene canister attachments on eBay last year AND they were the correct ones for the model I had. I grabbed them very fast. All I need to find now is a hose (probably impossible) and I'll have a complete machine.

Could you take the ends and add them to another hose to make one custom for your machine ???

 

[centralsweeper63]

Probably, though his Modern Hygiene is very valuable, so the correct hose would be important.

 

[thevacomaticiec]

Probably, though his Modern Hygiene is very valuable, so the correct hose would be important.

i hear ya i want proper parts for my compact electra c8 c9 cxl

 

[centralsweeper63]

yep. Some things can be dodged and modified, though some need original.

 

[thevacomaticiec]

true that i prefer factory but will make custom to MAKE DO for the time being

 

[huskyvacs]

Could you take the ends and add them to another hose to make one custom for your machine ???

The vacuum has a twist-lock fitting of some kind on the vacuum side, so the hose has to be a special kind, but I think the connection type is not proprietary and other makers used it, I am not 100% certain. The OEM hose looks virtually identical to the old Kirby 500 series hoses that are red, so that might be a good stand-in.

I'm fine with bodging a hose to it, or using a rubber shop-vac push-on hose for now, but would be nice to have it fully completed.

Because of the story with it from what happened to the seller, and the model it is being of legendary stature, it's one I'll never get rid of. Would never find one again in all my life.

 

[thevacomaticiec]

the wands and tools reminds me of filter queen

 

[centralsweeper63]

Yep. they are kind of similar.