Kenmore High Desert Restoration Facility Contd 1

[DesertTortoise]

The blue suction unit is back together (boy, that sounds vaguely obscene, doesn't it, heh, heh, heh). That was an easy one. Now I am stuck on what is probably the last step to get the motor from the white 4.5 apart. Anyway, the blue suction unit looks nice and runs nice. Enjoy the after photos. Even got some admiring looks from the restoration staff.

Included is a little tutorial on how to use Electrolux bulk filter material to augment the inadequate foam secondary filtration on Kenmores of that vintage and earlier. And to think when I bought that filter media I had absolutely no idea I would stumble on a real Electrolux machine to day. It is a material (blown glue) recommended to me by the owner of the vacuum shop I frequent. I use it in the exhaust filter of these machines as well in place of the degradamatic filters Kenmore calls for. Earlier and later machines can use a much better filter media, but those filters don't come in pieces wide enough to cover the entire exhaust grid of one of these, so I use the Electrolux stuff instead.

 

[sanc]

Great job! I've enjoyed following your progress.
Scott

 

[singerman]

Noce job man!

 

[bebring]

Look nice. It's look the same vacuum as my Kenmore, but it have a different motor and it write 9 amp on yours, is it because you're model don't have the power-mate?

 

[DesertTortoise]

Bebring, I have both the blue 9 Amp and a red 12 Amp versions of that vacuum. I bought the red 12 Amp last weekend in Los Angeles off a Craigslist listing. If you look at my thread "Kenmore High Desert Restoration Center Quick Turn" you see the clean up of the 12 Amp version. I like these vacs. They are compact, light weight, simple, they do the job and they clean up nice.

Both vacuums were sold as suction only units. I converted the red 12 Amp model to use a powered hose. You can see how I did it in the thread mentioned above. It was as simple as drilling one hole, adding the correct wire and power plug, and changing the doohicky Kenmore calls the "Strike" that holds the bag adapter to one that has the notch for the power plug to slot into .

The 9 Amp model has a small US made 2 stage Lamb motor while the 12 Amp version has a single stage Chinese motor that looks like one you would find in a Progressive canister. It has more suction than the Lamb motor, but probably is spinning a lot faster. When it dies it will be replaced with a proper two stage Lamb motor, but until then my fiancee can use it.