John
If you don't mind me asking, are you the same John Smith that is on YouTube? If you are, I love your videos! You do a excellent job comparing vacuums & explaining the pros & cons for each one.
As for using the Hoover Type A bags in your Royal in place of the Royal Type B bag, it WILL NOT work. The Hoover A cardboard collar hole is just a smidge larger than the Royal B bag. I had thought of it myself years ago when I got my first Royal, as I also owned a Hoover Elite, & as Brooomvac noted Hoover A HEPA Cloth bags are pretty easy to find in generic form on Amazon. You would have to wrap the bag fill tube with packers tape as I said above to make a Kirby bag work.
As for the generic Hoover Type B HEPA Cloth bags you found thru the vac shop in Florida, that makes sense. Back a few years ago, TTI was cranking out a 8 lb upright in both Hoover & Royal brandnames, household & commercial versions. The Hoover household variant was called the Hoover Signature.There was also a yellow one with a different name that escapes me now, & they also made the Aerus Fresh Era lightweight upright before Aerus rebadged the Tacony 8 lb uprights. One other interesting fact: Perfect Commercial was also using the Type B bag on their knockoff of the Sanitaire uprights. A fellow collector suggested that bag to me when I got my first Royal & was trying to figure out a good, cheap HEPA Cloth bag for it. That bag is EXACTLY IDENTICAL to the Hoover/Royal Type B bag, & can also be found in bulk. See the link below.
But, why would you have a issue "retrofitting" your Royal to take Kirby Sentria bags? You do realize if you use ANYTHING but the genuine TTI Royal/Hoover Type B bag, you're not using the cleaner as the "manufacturer's use & care" recommendations & instructions would say in the manual. If you use ANY kind of generic HEPA Cloth bag, even if it's a Hoover/Royal Type B HEPA Cloth bag for the sake of saving some money & convenience, you have "modified" your cleaner, just like if you "modified" it as I suggested above to use a Kirby bag. I don't know about you, but personally I am a huge cheapskate....I will buy the cheapest HEPA Cloth bags I can find, especially if it's a cleaner I use a lot or I know will go thru bags quickly. Plus, you can easily undo that "modification" anytime by simply cutting off the tape off the bag fill tube, & if you ever did sell it, I am sure the new owner (assuming it's just a ordinary person, not a collector) would appreciate the "modification" you made, knowing the Kirby bags would be cheaper & easier to find.
Rob
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