Motor Design
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I have insomnia tonight and took a picture of two Nilfisk motors I cleaned up, when I got my Nilfisks they were dirty and some had paint on them and stuff. you can imagine the filters on top were dirty. I looked at the prices of those filters that go under the grill and they are like 10 bucks.. I make my own. At Wally world I went (with my Girlfriend she loves crafts anyway) and I asked her to get me some felt, 23 cents for 14 by 14 inch. cut out the filters and they work like the originals and I stack two, one on top of each other and it has more airflow and suction. I like the way the red looks,, kinda cool. I wish I had a silver Nilfisk only the gray metal ones and the plastic job, which I like a lot. lightweight.
yeah I have a wand that was crushed and a hose a big green one for that three motor job is crushed in the middle. I have to figure something out. I like canisters that are simple no cord winder. I am thinking of buying a new sanitaire round type canister looks somewhat like an advance u930 like a big cake box deal. this is red and black,,
Bags for a Nilfisk-I have a Nilfisk GS80 I got from the trade in pile from the Kirby guy.It is a GREAT vacuum-gets as much use as my Meiles,Sebo D4.I can adapt Sebo Filtrete D4 bags for the Nilfisk-just use the sanding drum in a Dremel tool to slightly enlarge the Sebo bag-it then fits onto the bag feed horn in the Nilfisk.I am using the Nilfisk for awhile-do like it.But--How do you remove the hose from the canister?I can't get how the hose comes off.Like its LONG detacheable cord-only have to plug it once-like the NSS M1 or the Sebo D4.The Nilfisk I have doesn't have an outlet for a powernozzle or electrified hose.Has a turbine type carpet tool.
You need to get a Nilfisk electrified hose form Nilfisk it has that EIC that plugs into the vacuum as the cord but after you plug in the cord from the hose then you plug in the cord. The Nilfisk power nozzle has a power switch that is foot operated on the nozzle.
oh the hose,, you just turn it counter clockwise and it will come out. It has four tits that lock into the receptacle. Once removed you'll see those four tits and the cut out of them in the vacuum. Clock wise to tighten it. give it a good twist it is in there fairly tight.
Thanks Mike-will try to see if the hose comes out tomorrow.When i have tried-its kinda tight-think it hasn't been removed for awhile by the previous user.Just wanted to verify that the hose would detach from the machine.The powernozzle hose and nozzle sounds interesting-will have to check on that-there are no Nilfisk dealers in Greenville-the machine came from the Kirby dealer in Raleigh.Guess there is a Nilfisk dealer there.
There is comprehensive filtration in the Nilfisk-has the top mounted HEPA filter-and its pretty clean.How funny it was traded in for a Kirby-the Nilfisk would beat the Kirby in filtering-but the Kirby would beat the turbine powernozzle for performance.
dysonman1
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Love my 1960's Nilfisk. Very quiet.
The Nilfisk "Silver Bullet" GS80 is very similar to Dysonman1's picture-mine has the HEPA filter on top.Mike-I tried what you said on the hose-this time it came right off and could be put back on wihout difficulty-guess I just didn't have the right "knack" that day.The hose cuff end on mine has a clever swivel that allows the cuff to swivel into various positions.Pretty neat.I use my Kirby Sentria for my WW carpet-but use my "new" Nilfisk,or the Sebo D4,NSS M1 or a Meile S8 for the canister jobs-the Kirby hose and tools are pretty lonely.Use them on occasion-just for the heck of it.I do really like the long cord on the Nilfisk and the long hose-you can reach areas that other machines can't reach without lifting the machine up.And the Nilfisk can use regular 1.25" vacuum tools.The Kirby dust brush works well on it.How funny--the Kirby tools get used on other vacs at my place besides the Kirby.
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