I've got one of those mint green QS's
I just repossessed it from one of my daughters. I think I mentioned this in another post; I bought it for them to use when they were vacuum-less, so it was kinda on loan. I conned them into trading it back for a Hoover Elite upright. So, I took it back recently. It was like new when I turned it over to them, but it needed cleaning up when I got it back. Still, it's pretty nice. I should post a coupla pics of it.
How did they decide to let me have the Celebrity back and take the Elite? H bags are harder to find that A bags.
It has the mint green hose which I thought was pretty good but when I was cleaning it lately I noticed it had the typical cracking in the outer membrane near where it connects to the tank, and in one small place the hole went all the way through. Ulp. I don't really wanna throw it away; I was thinking about putting a little dollop of silicone sealer down in there. It shouldn't move around much being down in a crack. We'll see.
I'm not a big fan of Hoover cord retractors, at least not the ones I'm familiar with. They either won't hold their position and want to retract all the time, or they fail to retract at all. I've seen beater Celebrities with bad retractors where the owners had tied a knot in the cord to keep it from going back in.
