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[countryguy]

The hose on my Lux AP280 from 1981 also had the squeeze trigger on the hose handle for the power nozzle.

Gary

 

[hoover1060]

that switch was a PAIN!

you pretty well have to hold the drip firmly, and even then sometimes the machine will switch off and on as you move the cleaner.
I should have also mentioned there was also the normal 3-position rocker switch on the handle front as well, marked ATT/HI/LO. Flipping the switch up to ATT overode the grip switch and turned the motor on for attachment use. The middle position is HI and allows the motor to run on HI speed when the grip is squeezed. Flipping the switch to LO gives you low speed when the grip is squeezed.
I believe that some recent Rainbow models had a similar switch arrangement for the power nozzle.

 

[petek]

So the US model Eluxes never had the switch grip like the Canadian models?

 

[charles~richard]

No, they didn't. It's kinda funny, when I got my ZB89 and started using it, I did not know about the squeeze trigger. As I was vacuuming, the power nozzle kept cutting on and off. I thot it was a problem with the PN wire so I jiggled it a bit and that did not fix the problem. I wrote the seller (eBay) and explained the problem, thinking there was something wrong with the PN! It was only after he told me about the squeeze-switch that I realized what was going on. I agree that it's a pain in the butt to have to keep squeezing on that handle. I do not think mine has the "override" switch, or, at any rate, don't recall seeing it. I'll have to look again.

Note the three different PNs above- they were all for the apparently long-running Canadian ZB89 [or is it Z89?? I can never remember], which was more or less contemporaneous with the American tan G and 1205.

The first 89 had the cord-wrapped hose, then at some point a pigtail electric hose came out. All three models had the same telescoping wand.

 

[countryguy]

Personally, I loved the squeeze trigger on the lux's handle. It was exactly where I held the handle anyway and it definitely wasn't difficult to squeeze so it didn't in any way make my finger tired squeezing it. And it was so nice to be able to just let go of the handle and the power nozzle would stop. I wish that they had continued with that switch instead of the bulky switches (or on some hoses, no switch at all) that came out on the later hoses which are still in use.

Gary

 

[charles~richard]

Well, I'm sure it's a matter of what one is used to.