Looking for a good home for vacuum cleaner

[xwhiteswan]

Free to a good home. I live in Hudson county, New Jersey.

 

[centralsweeper63]

The Electrolux is an Olympia 1401-B.

 

[cheesewonton]

The Electrolux is an Olympia 1401-B.

The official vacuum of the 1980 Winter Olympics, hence the name.

It and the 1505 Silverado are the high point of Electrolux canister design IMHO. They made the motors reliable ( Golden Jubilees and Super Jubilees not so much ), really good cleaning power in terms of suction and airflow, great durability and usability, they pretty much hit the sweet spot with them.

 

[thevacomaticiec]

The official vacuum of the 1980 Winter Olympics, hence the name.

It and the 1505 Silverado are the high point of Electrolux canister design IMHO. They made the motors reliable ( Golden Jubilees and Super Jubilees not so much ), really good cleaning power in terms of suction and airflow, great durability and usability, they pretty much hit the sweet spot with them.

I Buy sell repair vacuum in my home town the Olympia one , silverado and golden and super j are south after machine they jsut are built to last there dam near bullet proof with a vinyl hose and a good pn .

 

[centralsweeper63]

Best American Electrolux models!

 

[thevacomaticiec]

i sold a super j 1401 and a olympia one b 1401 both for good profit in my vacuum shop from home ppl love em

 

[centralsweeper63]

And with good cause!

 

[thevacomaticiec]

And with good cause!

YES made of metal ameteck motor 4 ply bags add a vinyl hose on it and a pn 5 or pn 6 you got a cleaning beast

 

[centralsweeper63]

Yep.

 

[cheesewonton]

YES made of metal ameteck motor 4 ply bags add a vinyl hose on it and a pn 5 or pn 6 you got a cleaning beast

Huh? Electrolux never used motors from Ametek. Their motors were made in house, in Connecticut through the 1505 Silverado and after that, 1521s and all the plastic body models, at their then new motor plant in Tennessee.

 

[centralsweeper63]

Good point!

 

[cheesewonton]

Good point!

Maybe when he refurbished them he replaced the original motor with one from Ametek. I have seen them sold with adapter plates to fit old Electrolux canister vacuums. Not my first choice but if he used model 115923 the power will be similar to what came in the vacuum from Electrolux but the vacuum won't be as quiet. My own preference is a motor from a company called Electromotor Inc, which just happens to be the company formed when Electrolux new owners sold their motor factory in Tennessee to the employees and started using the VM3 motor from Electrolux AB of Sweden ( though the motor is made somewhere else ). The employees organized it as a business and they still make motors that are basically identical to what Electrolux was putting in their vacuums after the Connecticut plant closed. Drop in replacements for the 1521 and later models. For the earlier Golden Jubilee, Super Jubilee, Olympia and Silverado you would need an adapter plate and spacer because the new motor is much shorter over all than the original. However one of their drop in replacement motors, 6500-298 is a powerful sucker and really wakes these old machines up. It's my go to motor for old Luxes. They are a quiet motor compared to Ametek.

 

[centralsweeper63]

I can agree with liking the Electromotor replacement. Though Ametek is good too!

 

[thevacomaticiec]

Huh? Electrolux never used motors from Ametek. Their motors were made in house, in Connecticut through the 1505 Silverado and after that, 1521s and all the plastic body models, at their then new motor plant in Tennessee.

my mistake thanks

 

[centralsweeper63]

Maybe someone else did a conversion at some point?

 

[cheesewonton]

Maybe someone else did a conversion at some point?

Golden Jubilee through Silverado motors are big and under stressed. You just replace the brushes and bearings, clean up the commutator and per her back to work. They seldom need to be replaced and really nothing you can replace them with is better.

 

[centralsweeper63]

I know, but you see some really silly things with vacuum conversions.