New project: granny Nilfisk

[tommymilan]

Dear friends, a few years ago I bought for a ridiculous sum of money this scary old Nilfisk vacuum cleaner, in such poor conditions, so i placed it somewhere in my house of vacs and almost forgot about it! Now it's time to give it a SPA treatment and give it kind of a more appropriate look! Something tells me that it's going to be quite a hard work... Any tips? Greetings from italy , tommy

 

[gsheen]

Hi Tommy 


 


I have restored many nilfisks but there are a few models , Why don't you post a pic of yours so we can see and advise you .


Gareth

 

[tommymilan]

here are the pictures

hello, I'm sorry, I was trying to upload pictures from an Iphone but it didn't work, so here they are!!!
Any suggestion will be much appreciated.
Greetings,
tommy

 

[tommymilan]

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[tommymilan]

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[tommymilan]

a little mummified hose

 

[gsheen]

dam what a find , I think that is one of the very first nilfisks. unfortunetly I have only seen one here at nilfisk never worked on one yet

 

[classicfan1]

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Looks like a mechanical tombstone or perhaps an automotive transmission! Good luck, I'm sure parts will be very rare.

 

[kenkart]

This looks like..

Another European vac called a Tellus.

 

[vac_whisperer]

That...is a strange looking vacuum!

 

[vacbear58]

Another European vac called a Tellus.

Hans

Thats because it is - at various times Nilfisk have been known as Tellus, I have one of these and I am not at all sure that it is not branded as Tellus.

It actually looks somewhat like an old-fashioned milk pan

I nabbed these instruction manual pictures from ebay a while back

 

[vacbear58]

2nd page

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[vacbear58]

page 3

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[kenkart]

I Sure Wish!!

A boatload of that European stuff could be shipped here!! I love it!

 

[vacuumfreak]

I was just browsing on google, and I came across this. The first vacuum shown is the Tellus, and it has some pictures and an advertisement.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.linnell/sso_01/vacuums canister.html#Anchor41390