Kenmore Imperial Belts??

[portable]

<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: small;">Does anyone know what modern-day belt can be substituted for the original Kenmore (Bugeye) Imperial belt? After many years of being in storage, my Imperial is finally out of storage and in need of a new belt. The one it had looks fairly large and flat</span>


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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: small;">....help???</span>

 

[brandon_w_t]

Can you give us an approximate size. I have a friend with one and could ask what he uses too. I believe it uses a similar belt to delco machines.

 

[portable]

<span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">It's too stretched out of shape to tell what it is supposed to be....perhaps when re-formed into a perfect circle....about </span>


<span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">3 3/4" across, and about 1/2" wide....??</span>

 

[hoovercelebrity]

Perhaps a Dial A Matic power-drive belt?  Not the agitator belt, but the one that controls the power drive?  Or a Hoover Elite belt, or even a Dial A Matic agitator belt.  those are all somewhat narrow, and vary in diameter.


 


 

 

[brandon_w_t]

I think it was the elite or dam belt that worked. That sounds quite familiar. I sent my buddy an email asking about it.

 

[electrolux~137]

<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: medium;">John, it seems to me that Stan used Hoover Elite belts in his Imperial but won't swear to that. You might get one and see how it fits. </span>

 

[super-sweeper]

could you give a picture please?

 

[truckerx]

Kenmore Imperial

Take the old belt to a vac store and match it up with one slightly smaller allowing for the stretching that has occurred.

 

[portable]

<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: small;">Thanks, all. I will see what works. The DAM power drive belt rings a bell...</span>