My Electrolux 50th Anniversary Golden Jubilee

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Old wheels on body:

The only worn parts.

 

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New wheels :

The paint was even still on the axles.

 

[danemodsandy]

Caramba!

That thing is GORGEOUS! You have done a superb job of cleaning it! Hats off to ya.

You've just taught me something - I did not know about the plastic washers. I have never, in all my years around Luxes, seen one of their PNs with them intact. Now I have to find some for my PN-2.

Yes, I'd be interested in the motor. Could you email me off-list and let me know what you need for it? Thanks!

Again, congratulations. That Golden Jubilee is going to have a proper PN-2, I can see.

 

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You are so right danemodsandy.

This project has taken me about a hundred and ten hours total. The metal polishing is hard work. The person that had the vacuum stored it, maybe because it had no power nozzle with it, and I threw out the crappy white vinyl hose that somebody put in the box. I was asked if I wanted the hose and I thought to myself "just say yes as it will be good cushioning packing material" . The person I bought it from put chunks of styrofoam all around the canister. Best packing job ever!

 

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The bag chamber and lettering.

I wiped it out with Clorox wipes but it looked like new before too. Still can't believe the condition.

 

[danemodsandy]

I Wonder....

....If that Golden Jubilee was one of the famous Electrolux salesman's "Now and Later" sales.

You see Luxes without PNs because they were priced separately, and what salesmen would do with a customer who couldn't afford everything at once was to go ahead and sell the canister, and then follow up later to work with the customer and sell them the PN.

Obviously, not everyone needed the PN (a lot of houses had only area rugs then), and some never bought it. 1205s seem to turn up without PNs more than later models do.

 

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Actually danemodsandy.......

Those other PN2s look like that after about a container and a half of Clorox wipes. I unpack in the garage before anything comes in the house. They could easily have been considered bio hazzard.

 

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Funny you mention that.......

.......the Electrolux 1205 I grew up with actually was supposed to have come with a PN2, but ours had the PN1. Irritates me to think a salesman did that back then, but if they had'nt I never would have fallen for that aqua PN1.

 

[danemodsandy]

Tyler:

I know what you mean; my Model L was absolutely filthy. I would not have vacuumed a junkyard with it when I got it.

No garage here, but things go down the back stairs to the basement for their combination biohazard remediation and spa treatment.

You have an email from me.

P.S.: What's the weather like in Georgia? I lived there (Atlanta) most of my life until a few years ago.

 

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My jaw dropped when I first opened the blower door.

(No pun intended). So clean I could not get over it. The motor sounds like a new jet and has a new car smell exhaust.

 

[danemodsandy]

1205 and PNs

The first Lux I ever lusted after was a brand-new 1205 with a PN-2 in the window of the Electrolux agency on Piedmont Avenue; I worked a couple of doors down at the time. Every day, I had to walk past all that turquoise-and-polished-aluminum goodness.

I knew it was too expensive for me at the time, but I eventually went in anyway and asked about it. Well, they were very kind - they soon assessed my finances and said the 1205 was a little (uh, a lot) more than they were willing to finance, but I COULD be approved for a refurbished Model L (in hammertone blue) with a PN-1. All the tools were new. I think it was $129.95 total. A roommate stole it some years later.

I've had a soft spot for Luxes ever since.

 

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When I took the top off to sanitize.

Original tape on the crystal clear hose. Factory indentifier paint mark. Not even a mark on the sides of the toggle switch.

 

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Wow danemodsandy.

That is a great story.

 

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That Must Be....

....The cleanest metal-bodied Lux I've seen since they were new!

You NEVER see that hose clear any more.

 

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Yeah.....

....That 1205 in the window of the Lux agency (close to Ansley Mall) looked like a small Rolls-Royce sitting there. The sales guys had it polished to the point that the aluminum looked like sterling silver. It was gorgeous, and it just SCREAMED "Expensive!"

The demo machine inside looked very nice, but it sure didn't look like the one in the window. I remember they had it displayed with a turquoise B-8 shampooer/polisher, which was also polished to within an inch of its life.

I never dreamed that such wondrous, expensive things would one day end up battered and filthy in thrift stores.

Fortunately for me, eventually they did. ;-)

 

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So happy the body had no dents.

There seams to almost always be at least a tiny one.

 

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Too funny.

I was just down there a few weeks ago. I bought a house about thirty miles north of the city and had not been there in a while. It has changed a lot. Nice area still.

 

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Even the inlet was clean.......

.......with shiny contacts and no scrapes.

 

[danemodsandy]

Can't Believe...

...That inlet. That thing must have never been used.

By the way, you're right about the changes in that area. Atlanta changed so much I finally gave up and moved up here to Iowa. I like city life, but not THAT fast-paced and expensive.

 

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Dusting brush love:

My little guy wanted to be part of it.